Full Description
Critiques presented here in defence of development range across a number of issues, all of which are central to discussions about the desirability or undesirability of this historical process. These include one particular aspect - labour market competition - of the debate about racism, why the reproduction of this ideology is more acute at some historical conjunctures but not others, the same question that can also be asked of the industrial reserve. Equally contentious is the current dominance of populist and postmodern interpretations of rural development, in the misleading guise of new paradigms, the object of which is to exorcise two ghosts: not just development itself, but also Marxist theory about development.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Last Rites for Development Studies?
Are We the Masters Now?
Dismantling Development
Post-development?
This Sense of Identity
Climate, Class, Risk
Themes
part 1
Questioning the Paradigm
1 Racism and Development: Blood, Sweat and Fears
Introduction: More Lessons from History
An Absent Nationality
A Race against Time, a Time against Race
Southern Myths
No Ear to Hear
Differences, Sameness
Common Heirs to Its Impositions
The Battle for Bread
The Pinch of Hunger
Conclusion
2 The Industrial Reserve and Development: A Vanishing Army?
Introduction: Redefining the Industrial Reserve
19th Century Marxist Views
20th Century Liberal Views
20th Century Marxist Views
Border Wars
Human Flourishing, but Whose?
What Marx Really Said
Travelling the Same Road?
Conclusion
3 Sociology and Development: A Warning from The History Man
Introduction: Publishing, Hierarchy, Power
The Bleak End of Things
Who Is The History Man Now?
The Power of Hierarchy
No One Is Listening?
Conclusion
4 Critical Agrarian Studies and Development: A Populist Land Grab
Introduction: The Sleep of Forgetfulness
In the Academic Salon
Deprivileging Marxism
'Marxist' Questions
'Marxist' Answers
Reprivileging Agrarian Populism
Conclusion
part 2
Alternative Agendas
5 Development: A Theory without a Past, Present, or Future?
Introduction: Paradigms/Concepts That Disappear/Reappear
Call a Friend
Concepts, Origins
Capitalism Everywhere, Capitalism Nowhere
Development Theory?
The Sharpest Weapon
Conclusion
6 Liberalism and Development: Fukuyama's Scylla and Charybdis
Introduction: A Benign Capitalism?
Floreat Classical Liberalism?
I Am a Nice Shark ...
A Progressive Left?
Political Corrections, Problematic History
Conclusion
7 Anthropology and Development: Self in the World, World in the Self
Introduction: What Do I Know?
The Self (in the World)
Self-help
No Friends There
The World (in the Self)
Insufficiency
Self-sufficiency
Humanity's Priority
Restlessness
Conclusion
8 Labour Regime and Development: Deproletarianisation and Neo-bondage Compared
Introduction: Explaining Unfree Labour
Deproletarianisation, Neo-bondage
Unfreedom, Patronage, Politics
Differences Explained?
Misinterpreting Capitalism
Conclusion
part 3
Beyond Capitalism?
9 Postmodernism and Development: Misremembering the Peasantry
Introduction: Doing without Development?
Methodology
Sources
Stories
Theory
Definitions
Economy
Politics
Conclusion
10 On the Continuing Necessity of (Marxist) Critique
Introduction: Paradigms, Polemics, Popularity
A Return to Yesterday
New Paradigms, Old Assumptions
Class Dismissed
Producing Curtains
Urgent Need of Renewal
Conversation, Collaboration, Cooperation?
Hegemonic Formation, Populist Moments, Floating Signifiers?
Taking People's Beliefs Seriously?
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
