This book uses a postcolonial lens to question developments dominant cultural representations and institutional practices investigating the possibilities for a transformatory postcolonial politics ilan kapoor examines recent development policy. The postcolonial politics of development offers an extensive critique of existing development practice kapoor walks with social theorists to make insightful interventions into the instabilities of power but also takes them forward to theorize the agency that such instabilities make possible it is thus an excellent intervention into development theory but it also makes the works of these theorists as well as his analysis and extensions of their writings accessible to his . The postcolonial politics of development ilan kapoor routledge feb 8 2008 political science 184 pages 0 reviews this book uses a postcolonial lens to question developments dominant cultural representations and institutional practices investigating the possibilities for a transformatory postcolonial politics. Postcolonial politics of development offers an extensive critique of existing development practice kapoor walks with social theorists to make insightful interventions into the instabilities of power but also takes them forward to theorize the agency that such instabilities make possible it is thus an excellent intervention into development theory