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Countering Development: Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination

Countering Development: Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination

Gow, David D.

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Business GeneralAnthropologyGeneral Political Science

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ISBN10: 0822341484
ISBN13: 9780822341482
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: May 21 2008
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Cauca, located in southwestern Colombia and home to the largest indigenous population in the country, is renowned as a site of indigenous mobilization. In 1994, following a destructive earthquake, many families in Cauca were forced to leave their communities of origin and relocate to other areas within the province where the state provided them with land and housing. Noting that disasters offer communities the opportunity to remake themselves and their priorities, David D. Gow examines how three different communities established after the earthquake wrestled with conflicting visions of development. He shows how they each countered traditional notions of development by moving beyond a myopic obsession with poverty alleviation to demand that Colombia become more inclusive and treat all of its people as citizens with full rights and responsibilities.

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