Résumé
The increased international tension of the early twenty-first century has made sustained examination and critique of globalization more essential than ever. World Bank Literature brings together essays by a distinguished group of economists, cultural and literary critics, social scientists, and public policy analysts to ask how to understand the influence of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on global economic power relations and cultural production. The authors attack this question in myriad ways, examining World Bank/IMF documents as literature, their impact on developing nations, the relationship between literature and globalization, the connection between the academy and the global economy, and the emergence of coalitions confronting the new power. World Bank Literature shows the multifarious and sometimes nefarious ways that academic debates play themselves out concretely in social policy and cultural mores that reinforce traditional power structures.
Contents
Introduction
Dossier on the Academy- Consolations for Capitalists: Propositions in Flight from World Bank Literature
- World Bank Literacy and the Culture of Jobs
- Looking Backward, 2002-1969: Campus Activism in the Era of Globalization
- ¡Ya Basta! We Are Rising Up! World Bank Culture and Collective Opposition in the North
- What Is Globalization Anyway?
- Toward a Regional Imaginary in Africa
- "Poverty in Liberty, Riches in Slavery": The IMF, the World Bank, and Women's Resistance in West Africa
- The Uneven Development of Tactics
- Breaking the Waves: Reading World Bank and Social Movement Documents on the Global Fisheries
- Hostage to an Unaccountable Planetary Executive: The Flawed "Washington Consensus" and Two World Bank Reports
- "Whooping It Up for Rational Prosperity": Narratives of the East Asian Financial Crisis
- Challenging the World Bank's Narrative of Inclusion
- World Bank/Class Blindness
- Left Sensationalists at the Transnational Crime Scene: Recent Detective Fiction from the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
- Under Control: Reading the Facts and FAQs of Population Control
- Developing Fictions: The "Tribal" in the New Indian Writing in English
- All Published Literature Is World Bank Literature; or, The Zapatistas' Storybook
- The Weak Sovereignty of the Postcolonial Nation-State
- Reading Bharati Mukherjee, Reading Globalization
- Soldierboys for Peace: Cognitive Mapping, Space, and Science Fiction as World Bank Literature
Contributors
L'auteur - Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar is associate professor of English and
cultural studies at Penn State University. He is the author
of Passport Photos (2000).
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L'auteur - John Berger
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Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Univeristy of Minesota Press |
| Auteur(s) | Amitava Kumar, John Berger, Bruce Robbins |
| Parution | 10/04/2003 |
| Nb. de pages | 308 |
| Format | 18 x 25,5 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 596g |
| Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
| EAN13 | 9780816638376 |
| ISBN13 | 978-0-8166-3837-6 |
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