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Subject(s)

• Social sciences and psychoanalysis [Browse]
• Economic development [Browse]

Series

Cornell scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

By applying psychoanalytic perspectives to key themes, concepts, and practices underlying the development enterprise, 'Confronting Desire' offers a new way of analyzing the problems, challenges, and potentialities of international development. Ilan Kapoor makes a compelling case for examining development's unconscious desires, and in the process inaugurates a new field of study: psychoanalytic development studies.

Notes

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 7, 2021).

Contents

• Front matter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• 1. Psychoanalysis and International Development
• 2. Post-Development’s Surrender to Global Capitalism: A Psychoanalytic Critique
• 3. Antagonism: The Universalist Dimensions of Antagonism
• 4. Drive: What “Drives” Capitalist Development?
• 5. Envy: Capitalism as Envy-Machine
• 6. Fetishism: Fetishism in International Development: Domination, Disavowal, and Foreclosure
• 7. Gaze: The “Gaze” in Participatory Development: Panoptic or Traumatic?
• 8. Gender/Sex: When Sex = (Socially Constructed) Gender, What Is Lost, Politically? Psychoanalytic Reflections on Gender and Development
• 9. Perversion/Hysteria: The Politics of Perversion and Hysteria in the Tunisian Revolution and Its Aftermath
• 10. Queerness: The Queer Third World
• 11. Racism: The Racist Enjoyments and Fantasies of International Development
• 12. Symptom: Development and the Poor: Enjoy Your Symptom!
• Index

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ISBN

• 1-5017-5174-3
• 1-5017-5175-1

OCLC

1142922007

Doi

• 10.1515/9781501751738

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