Confronting desire psychoanalysis and international development Ilan Kapoor

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Psychoanalysis and international development -- Post-development's surrender to global capitalism: a psychoanalytic critique -- The universalist dimensions of antagonism -- What "drives" capitalist development? -- Capitalism as envy-machine -- Fetishism in international development: domination, disavowal, and foreclosure -- The "gaze" in international development: panoptic or traumatic? -- When sex = (socially constructed) gender, what is lost, politically? -- Psychoanalytic reflections on gender and development -- The politics of perversion and hysteria in the Tunisian revolution and its aftermath -- The queer Third World -- The racist enjoyments and fantasies of international development -- Development and the poor: enjoy your symptom!

"This book critically analyzes important current issues in international development-growth, poverty, inequality, participation, consumption, corruption, gender, race, LGBT politics, revolution, universalism-by deploying key psychoanalytic concepts-enjoyment, fantasy, antagonism, fetishism, envy, drive, perversion, hysteria. It draws on the work of Lacan and Žižek, and on psychoanalytic postcolonial and feminist scholarship"-- Provided by publisher

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