Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-311) and index.

Introduction : imagining development / Jonathan Crush -- The inventi on of development / Michael Cowen and Robert Shenton -- 'A new deal in emotions' : theory and practice and the crisis of development / Michael Watts -- Scenes from childhood : the homesickness of development disco urses / Doug J. Porter -- Green development theory? : environmentalism and sustainable development / W.M. Adams -- Selective silence : a femin ist encounter with environmental discourse in colonial Africa / Fiona M ackenzie -- Sustainable disasters? : perspectives and powers in the dis course of calamity / Kenneth Hewitt -- The object of development : Amer ica's Egypt / Timothy Mitchell -- Modernizing Malthus : the World Bank, population control and the African environment / Gavin Williams -- Cha nging discourses of development in South Africa / Chris Tapscott -- Eur ocentrism and geography : reflections on Asian urbanization / T.G. McGe e -- Imagining a post-development era / Arturo Escobar -- Black conscio usness and the quest for a counter-modernist development / Kate Manzo - - Post-modernism, gender and development / Jane L. Parpart -- Becoming a development category / Nanda Shrestha.