Description: Further DetailsTitle: Growth against DemocracyCondition: NewSubtitle: Savage Developmentalism in the Modern WorldAuthor: H. L. T. QuanContributor: H. L. T. Quan (Edited by)Format: HardbackISBN-10: 0739170597EAN: 9780739170595ISBN: 9780739170595Publisher: Lexington BooksGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: Society & Culture, Business & FinanceRelease Date: 08/31/2012Description: Growth against Democracy: Savage Developmentalism in the Modern World, by H.L.T. Quan is a compelling interrogation of the ways in which we have thought about modernity, capitalism, and democracy, and how those ideas inform neoliberal economics, diplomacy, and impact human life. To explicate contemporary theories of development, Quan introduces the concept of “savage developmentalism,” with its attendant distortions of the ideals of equality and freedom and assumptions that foment antidemocratic social and political forms. By outlining the pitfalls of security-obsessed developmental approaches, Growth against Democracy troubles the simple notion that modernity is inherently superior and development will benefit everyone. It shows how capitalists' needs for market, finance, and profitability often lead to development programs that engender expansionism, dispossession, and repression. Drawing on political theory, international political economy, critical ethnic studies, legal studies, and feminist analytics, this groundbreaking study exemplifies how multi-disciplinary scholarship best addresses the increasingly complex and multi-layered issues facing humanity today. It analyzes the linkages between development and national security, and provides sustained attention to the making of foreign policy, the development of capitalism and corporate globalization. The book highlights three critical examples of where savage developmentalism has eventuated worse living conditions, severe social repression, and displacement: Brazilian-Japanese economic relations in Brazil under military rule (1964-1985); China’s aggressive courting of African good will and resources; and, the United States’ reconstruction of Iraq. These three major historical cases represent some of the most momentous global development in the last sixty years, and never before have such powerful cases been analyzed in the same monograph. Growth against Democracy helps re-evaluate the promises of progress, security, and freedom, and broadens our ideas about and priorities for humane public policy at the national and global levels.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 160mmItem Width: 26mmItem Weight: 562gRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Growth against Democracy
Title: Growth against Democracy
Subtitle: Savage Developmentalism in the Modern World
Contributor: H. L. T. Quan (Edited by)
ISBN-10: 0739170597
EAN: 9780739170595
ISBN: 9780739170595
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Business & Finance
Release Date: 08/31/2012
Release Year: 2012
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Number of Pages: 268 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Growth Against Democracy : Savage Developmentalism in the Modern World
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2012
Subject: Political Economy, Developing & Emerging Countries, Globalization, Development / Economic Development, International Relations / General, Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.9 Oz
Author: H. L. T. Quan
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
