1. Colonial World of Postcolonial Historians and the Neoliberal Reinvention of Tribal Identity in India -- 2. Myth of Modernization and Development in Orissa -- 3. Interrogating Social Capital and Denials of Development in the Planning for Tribal Development in India -- 4. Capitalism and...

Introduction / Keith Hart -- Economy versus democracy -- Habits of austerity : financialization and new ways of dealing with money / Jürgen Schraten -- What financial crisis? The global politics of finance : distributional consequences and legitimizing narratives / Horacio Ortiz -- Party...

This new collection critically examines the new global policy of 'good governance'. This catchphrase of aid policy and development thinking has been the subject of too little analysis to date. This book redresses the balance. It places the prefix 'good', and exactly what that means, under the...