How Long to Read Confronting Desire

How Long Does it Take to Read Confronting Desire?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 26 minutes to read Confronting Desire by Ilan Kapoor

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

By applying psychoanalytic perspectives to key themes, concepts, and practices underlying the development enterprise, Confronting Desire offers a new way of analyzing the problems, challenges, and potentialities of international development. Ilan Kapoor makes a compelling case for examining development's unconscious desires and in the process inaugurates a new field of study: psychoanalytic development studies. Drawing from the work of Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Žižek, as well as from psychoanalytic postcolonial and feminist scholarship, Kapoor analyzes how development's unconscious desires "speak out," most often in excessive and unpredictable ways that contradict the outwardly rational declarations of its practitioners. He investigates development's many irrationalities—from obsessions about growth and poverty to the perverse seductions of racism and over-consumption. By deploying key psychoanalytic concepts—enjoyment, fantasy, antagonism, fetishism, envy, drive, perversion, and hysteria—Confronting Desire critically analyzes important issues in development—growth, poverty, inequality, participation, consumption, corruption, gender, "race," LGBTQ politics, universality, and revolution. Confronting Desire offers prescriptions for applying psychoanalysis to development theory and practice and demonstrates how psychoanalysis can provide fertile ground for radical politics and the transformation of international development.

How long is Confronting Desire?

Confronting Desire by Ilan Kapoor is 199 pages long, and a total of 51,541 words.

This makes it 67% the length of the average book. It also has 63% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Confronting Desire Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 41 minutes to read Confronting Desire aloud.

What Reading Level is Confronting Desire?

Confronting Desire is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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