Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-261) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Accounting for culture -- Imaginative ventures : cultivating confidence at Bretton Woods -- Imperial burden : selling development to Wall Street -- Uncomfortable intimacies : managing third world nationalisms -- Culture underwritten : radical critique and the bank's cultural turn -- Success stories : NGOs and the banking Bildungsroman -- Literary movements : impossible collectivities in The god of small things -- Minimum agendas : the world social forum and the place of culture.