Invested interests
Subtitle: capital, culture, and the World Bank
By: Bret Benjamin.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780816648726; 9780816648733
Subjects: World Bank -- History; World Bank -- Influence; World Bank -- Social aspects; Economic assistance; Globalization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Accounting for culture; title: Imaginative ventures : cultivating confidence at Bretton Woods; title: Imperial burden : selling development to Wall Street; title: Uncomfortable intimacies : managing third world nationalisms; title: Culture underwritten : radical critique and the bank's cultural turn; title: Success stories : NGOs and the banking Bildungsroman; title: Literary movements : impossible collectivities in the god of small things; title: Minimum agendas : the world social forum and the place of culture.