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Alvares, Claude Alphonso

 
9780195632811: Science, Development and Violence: The Revolt Against Modernity (Oxford India Paperbacks)

Sinopsis

The idea of "development", especially in the last few decades, has been closely identified with progress, modernity and emancipation. It also acquired an aura of indisputable inexorability. This work argues that this this view is misleading and that development is a label masking plunder and violence. It demonstrates these points by using case studies and shows that there are viable alternatives to such forms of progress. This is a companion volume to Nandy's "Science, Hegemony and Violence", and focuses on one of the issues presented in the earlier volume.

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Claude Alvares is a writer and activist on social and environmental issues and author of several classic works on these subjects

De la contraportada

This book offers a lively and acute assessment of the actual aims, methods, and results of the development process, as against its ostensible aims.

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