Invested Interests : Capital, Culture, and the World Bank.
Title:
Invested Interests : Capital, Culture, and the World Bank.
Author:
Benjamin, Bret.
ISBN:
9780816654420
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (310 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Accounting for Culture -- 1. Imaginative Ventures: Cultivating Confidence at Bretton Woods -- 2. Imperial Burden: Selling Development to Wall Street -- 3. Uncomfortable Intimacies: Managing Third World Nationalisms -- 4. Culture Underwritten: Radical Critique and the Bank's Cultural Turn -- 5. Success Stories: NGOs and the Banking Bildungsroman -- 6. Literary Movements: Impossible Collectivities in The God of Small Things -- 7. Minimum Agendas: The World Social Forum and the Place of Culture -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
In Invested Interests, Bret Benjamin contends that the World Bank has, from its inception, trafficked in culture. From the political context in which the Bank was chartered to its evolution into an interventionist development agency with vast, unchecked powers, Benjamin explores the Banks central role in the global dissemination of Fordist-Keynesianism, its conflicted support for nationalism and the nation-state, and its emerging awareness of the relationships between economics and culture.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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