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Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The New Development Management Critiquing the Dual Modernization By Sadhvi Dar, Bill Cooke Zed Books LtdCopyright © 2008 Sadhvi Dar and Bill Cooke All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-84277-921-7 Contents Acknowledgements, viii, List of Contributors, x, Foreword • Hugh Willmott, xii, 1 Introduction: The New Development Management Bill Cooke and Sadhvi Dar, 1, 2 The Rise of the Global Managers Jonathan Murphy, 18, 3 Nongovernmentalism and the Reorganization of Public Action David Lewis, 41, 4 'Arrive Bearing Gifts...': Postcolonial Insights for Development Management Kate Kenny, 56, 5 Managerialism and NGO Advocacy: Handloom Weavers in India Nidhi Srinivas, 74, 6 International Development and the New Public Management: Projects and Logframes as Discursive Technologies of Governance Ron Kerr, 91, 7 Participatory Management as Colonial Administration Bill Cooke, 111, 8 Borders in an (In)Visible World: Colonizing the Divergent and Privileging the 'New World Order' Kym Thorne and Alexander T Kouzmin, 129, 9 The Managerialization of Development, the Banalization of Its Promise and the Disavowal of 'Critique' as a Modernist Illusion Pieter de Vries, 150, 10 Real-izing Development: Reports, Realities and the Self in Development NGOs Sadhvi Dar, 177, Afterword • Arturo Escobar, 198, Bibliography, 204, Index, 231, CHAPTER 1 Introduction: The New Development Management Bill Cooke and Sadhvi Dar A Dual Modernization This book offers critical perspectives on the contemporary and ubiquitous uses of managerialism in international development interventions. Our use of the term critical is not as an alternative to important. Nor are we critical in some sense that management ideas have not been applied properly in development, or that there are development practices that must be improved ma