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Author: David Lewis ,
Dennis Rodgers ,
Michael Woolcock
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.520kg
ISBN: 9780415822817
ISBN 10: 0415822815
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 16 August 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Popular representations of development and poverty have always been all around us, and scholars need to understand these alternative conceptualizations of reality to enrich their own discipline-based analysis and policy recommendations. This excellent volume suggests some ways in which this can happen, setting out the gains and the pitfalls of engagement. It is a thought provoking contribution to an important issue in development studies. -Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University, USA. This book is for a worthy cause, that of going beyond the currently popular quantitative and experimental approach to economic development, to look into wider, often more insightful, humanistic forms of representation of the development process. It shows how representations in literature, films, television, and internet may capture the complexity and nuances of the social processes involved in development in ways not considered in the standard approach. -Pranab Bardhan, University of California, Berkeley, USA. This wonderfully engaging and thought-provoking collection provides many lessons about representation and power for researchers and students alike. It will prove to be an invaluable teaching resource and will become a benchmark for much future research. -Cathy McIlwaine, University of London, UK. An important milestone in development studies which shows how literature, film and other discourses need to be part of the mix when we try to understand how other people live. -Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland and Turbulence. An essential analysis of the world of international development... and essential reading for rock stars everywhere. -Richard Bean, author of The God Botherers and One Man, Two Guvnors.
Author Information
David Lewis is Professor of Social Policy and Development at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom. Dennis Rodgers is Professor of Urban Social and Political Research at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Michael Woolcock is Lead Social Development Specialist with the World Bank's Development Research Group in Washington, DC, and Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University.
