In Black and Green, Kiran Asher provides a powerful framework for reconceptualizing the relationship between neoliberal development and social movements. Moving beyond the notion that development is a hegemonic, homogenizing force that victimizes local communities, Asher argues that development processes and social movements shape each other in uneven and paradoxical ways. She bases her argument on ethnographic analysis of the black social movements that emerged from and interacted with political and economic changes in Colombia s Pacific lowlands, or Choco region, in the...
In Black and Green, Kiran Asher provides a powerful framework for reconceptualizing the relationship between neoliberal development and social ...