Science, Development and Violence: The Revolt Against Modernity (Oxford India Paperbacks) - Softcover

Alvares, Claude Alphonso

 
9780195632811: Science, Development and Violence: The Revolt Against Modernity (Oxford India Paperbacks)
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ISBN 10: 0195632818 ISBN 13: 9780195632811
Publisher: OUP India, 1994

Synopsis

The idea of "development", especially in the last few decades, has been closely identified with progress, modernity and emancipation. It also acquired an aura of indisputable inexorability. This work argues that this this view is misleading and that development is a label masking plunder and violence. It demonstrates these points by using case studies and shows that there are viable alternatives to such forms of progress. This is a companion volume to Nandy's "Science, Hegemony and Violence", and focuses on one of the issues presented in the earlier volume.

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About the Author


Claude Alvares is a writer and activist on social and environmental issues and author of several classic works on these subjects

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Publisher
OUP India
Publication date
1994
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195632818
ISBN 13 
9780195632811
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
198

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