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Introduction / Ilan Kapoor -- Libidinal economy and political economy -- Faith, fantasy, and crisis : racialized financial discipline in Europe / Dan Bousfield -- The logic of humiliation in financial conquest / Maureen Sioh -- Beyond the end of the world : breaking attachment to a dying planet / Robert Fletcher -- Integrative and responsive desires : resources for an alternative political economy / Eleanor MacDonald -- Cultural anxieties -- "I love death" : war in Syria and the anxiety of the other / Anna Secor -- Empowering women: a symptom of development? / Chizu Sato -- Architectural enjoyment : Lefebvre and Lacan / Lucas Pohl -- Anamorphosis of capital : black holes, gothic monsters, and the will of God / Japhy Wilson -- The global in the local : desire, resistance and the city -- A feminist psychoanalytic perspective on glass architecture in Singapore / Nathan F. Bullock -- City life : glorification, desire and the unconscious size fetish / Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn and Rubia R. Valente -- Corruption, left castration, and the decay of an urban popular movement in Brazil : a melancholy story / Pieter de Vries -- The pervert vs. the hysteric : politics at Tahrir Square / Ilan Kapoor -- Epilogue: affect and the global rise of populism / Ilan Kapoor -- Contributors -- Index

In the last two decades especially, we have witnessed the rise of 'celebrity' forms of global humanitarianism and charity work, spearheaded by entertainment stars, billionaires, and activist NGOs (e.g. Bob Geldof, Bono, Angelina Jolie, Madonna, Bill Gates, George Soros, Save Darfur, Medeçins Sans Frontières). This book examines this new phenomenon, arguing that celebrity humanitarianism legitimates, and indeed promotes, neoliberal capitalism and global inequality. Drawing on Slavoj Žižek's work, the book argues how celebrity humanitarianism, far from being altruistic, is significantly contamina.

"This collection of essays is the first to chart what a specifically 'postcolonial politics' might look like in the context of global development so as to question development's dominant cultural representations and institutional practices." "The Postcolonial Politics of Development examines recent development policy initiatives in such areas as 'governance', 'human/gender rights', and 'participation' to better understand and contest how knowledge is produced in international development - its cultural assumptions and power implications. It shows how we, development practitioners and westernized elites/intellectuals, are complicit in this knowledge production. Such noble gestures as giving foreign aid or promoting participation and democracy often mask our institutional biases and economic and geopolitical interests, while silencing marginalized groups, on whose behalf we purportedly work."--Jacket

AbstractThis article explores ways of decolonising Development Studies by: (1) examining the discipline's tendencies towards what some have called 'imperial amnesia', that is, proclivities towards disavowing if not erasing European colonialism, most evident in 1950s–1960s Modernisation theory, but also more recently in the work of such analysts as Bruce Gilley and Nigel Biggar; (2) considering the opportunities and perils of 'epistemic decolonisation', that is, ways of decolonising knowledge production in the discipline, including the limits of 'non-Eurocentric' pedagogies; and (3) reflecting on forms of material decolonisation (e.g., the reduction of socioeconomic inequalities by improving better access to education or resisting the corporatisation of publicly funded research) that need to accompany any epistemic decolonisation for the latter to be meaningful.

AbstractThe article examines the current trend within international development agencies towards adopting participatory approaches to governance evaluation (GE). It argues that, while this trend is to be welcomed, there are important political, institutional and methodological implications and constraints worth considering. Donors appear not to have addressed as yet such questions as the institutional changes required for participatory GEs to be meaningful, the relationship between conventional and participatory GEs, issues of quality and power in participatory GEs, and relationships to broader governance structures in developing countries. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.