"Evaluates development enterprise and development discourse from a critical theory perspective. This view of development policies and control mechanisms employs Colombian case studies of the Programa de Desarrollo Rural Integrado and of the local application of the discourse of women in...

This paper relates the evolution of a common set of concepts which provide the framework for the discussion of Latin American economic development over recent decades. The analysis centres on Colombia and considers the discourse about development as an element of power and knowledge which serves...

Arturo Escobar argues that violence is not only endemic but constitutive of development. He suggests that the level of violence is closely tied to a feature of modernity that has become so naturalized that it is no longer remarked upon and at times even celebrated: displacement. Indeed,...