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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on October 26, 2005
Community Development Journal 2006 41(1):113-116; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsi105
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Fragments of development: Nation, gender, and the space of modernity

Suzanne Bergeron, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2004, 198 pp, ISBN 0 472 11403 4, $65.00

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Imagine any process of economic development. How do the social, political, and economic interact in your imaginary development? Who is active and who is passive? What stands in the way? How is success or failure measured? Who is then credited or blamed? The ways that we think about development are at least partially reflective of essentialist constructions that have been produced by societal and theoretical discourses. Bergeron has examined both mainstream and critical bodies of literature and emerged with a powerful set of observations regarding these constructions.

The discursive analyses in Fragments of Development demonstrate . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Brian Christens, PhD Student

Program in Community Research & Action, Department of Human & Organizational Development, Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, USA

Address for correspondence: B.Christens@Vanderbilt.edu


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