International development and the social sciences : essays on the history and politics of knowledge. edited by Frederick Cooper and Randall Packard

• Author: Cooper, Frederick (1947-);
  Packard, Randall M (1945-)
• Subjects: Social sciences -- Research;
  Economic development -- Research;
  Sciences sociales -- Recherche;
  Développement économique -- Recherche;
  Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Research;
  Pays en voie de développement -- Conditions économiques -- Recherche
• Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  Instruments and idioms of colonial and national development: India's historical experience in comparative perspective / Sugata Bose Modernizing bureaucrats, backward Africans, and the development concept / Frederick Cooper Visions of postwar health and development and their impact on public health interventions in the developing world / Randall Packard Intellectual openings and policy closures: disequilibria in contemporary development economics / Michael R. Carter Anthropology and its evil twin: "development" in the constitution of a discipline / James Ferguson Population science, private foundations, and development aid: the transformation of demographic knowledge in the United States, 1945-1965 / John Sharpless Redefining development at the World Bank / Martha Finnemore Development ideas in Latin America: paradigm shift and the economic commission for Latin America / Kathryn Sikkink "Found in most traditional societies": traditional medical practitioners between culture and development / Stacy Leigh Pigg Senegalese development: from mass mobilization to technocratic elitism / Mamadou Diouf Agrarian populism in the development of a modern nation (India) / Akhil Gupta
  
• Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997
  
• Creation Date: c1997
  
• Format: xii, 361 p. ; 24 cm
  
• Language: English