Race, Racism and Development: Interrogating History, Discourse and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781848135123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 296 str.

Kalpana Wilson

Opis

Race, Racism and Development is the first book to place constructions of race and racism at the center of a comprehensive analysis of the dominant discourses and practices of development. The author compares and contrasts two key theoretical approaches to race the postcolonial approach and a political economy approach - to provide the reader with provocative theoretical analyses, illuminated by topical case studies. Organized thematically, the insightful work includes a strong historical component, with parallels between the contemporary world and the colonial period. The book tackles human rights, imperialism, culture, ethnic conflict, HIV/Aids and the role of diasporas, and highlights the latent racialization in such debates to argue that development can only be understood within a full understanding of the relationship between north and south.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Race, capital and resistance through the lens of 1857 2. The gift of agency: gender and race in development representations 3. Population control, the Cold War and racialising reproduction 4. Pathologising racialised sexualities in the HIV/AIDS pandemic 5. New uses of 'race' in the 1990s: humanitarian intervention, good governance and democracy 6. Imperialism, accumulation and racialised embodiment 7. Worlds beyond the political? Postdevelopment and race 8. Reconfiguring 'Britishness': diasporas, DfID and neoliberalism In lieu of a conclusion... Notes References Index