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Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya (Antipode Book Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Joel Wainwright
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 864982
Media: Paperback
Pages: 328
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 1405157062
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.897427072824
EAN: 9781405157063
ASIN: 1405157062
Publication Date: February 15, 2008
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Product Description
Decolonizing Development investigates the ways colonialism shaped the modern world by analyzing the relationship between colonialism and development as forms of power.
* Based on novel interpretations of postcolonial and Marxist theory and applied to original research data
* Amply supplemented with maps and illustrations
* An intriguing and invaluable resource for scholars of postcolonialism, development, geography, and the Maya
Book Description
Postcolonialism and political economy are brought together in this groundbreaking book, which examines development among the Maya of Belize. Decolonizing Development investigates the ways colonialism shaped the modern world by analyzing the relationship between colonialism and development as forms of power. Through close readings of archival texts, maps, and development practices, Joel Wainwright unearths the roots of centuries of struggle over the representation of the Maya and their lands. He traces the shifts in discourses on this pre-Columbian civilization and documents indigenous resistance to the British colonial state.The politics of state-led development projects since the 1950s are explored through three case studies: the works of a soil scientist who served the British colonial state in Belize; two agricultural development projects that intended to settle Maya agriculture by improving mechanized rice production; and a 'counter-mapping' project that offers an indigenous view of the geography of southern Belize.Wainwright demonstrates how development - a stage upon which colonial struggles are replayed - sustains the very power inequalities it aims to resolve.
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