Cover -- POWER OF DEVELOPMENT -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION: Imagining development -- Part I HISTORIES OF DEVELOPMENT -- 1 THE INVENTION OF DEVELOPMENT -- 2 'A NEW DEAL IN EMOTIONS': Theory and practice and the crisis of development -- 3 SCENES FROM CHILDHOOD: The homesickness of development discourses -- 4 GREEN DEVELOPMENT THEORY?: Environmentalism and sustainable development -- 5 SELECTIVE SILENCE: A feminist encounter with environmental discourse in colonial Africa -- Part II GEOGRAPHIES OF DEVELOPMENT -- 6 SUSTAINABLE DISASTERS?: Perspectives and powers in the discourse of calamity -- 7 THE OBJECT OF DEVELOPMENT: America's Egypt -- 8 MODERNIZING MALTHUS: The World Bank, population control and the African environment -- 9 CHANGING DISCOURSES OF DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA -- 10 EUROCENTRISM AND GEOGRAPHY: Reflections on Asian urbanization -- Part III OTHER DEVELOPMENTS -- 11 IMAGINING A POST-DEVELOPMENT ERA -- 12 BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE QUEST FOR A COUNTER-MODERNIST DEVELOPMENT -- 13 POST-MODERNISM, GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT -- 14 BECOMING A DEVELOPMENT CATEGORY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.