Introduction. From the Edges of Development / Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya A. Kurian and Debashish Munshi -- Pt. I. Refusing Representations of Development -- 1. October 17, 1961 / Moustafa Bayoumi -- 2. Ode to "Quasheba": Resistance Rituals among Higgler Women in Jamaica / Hume N. Johnson -- 3. Plural Economies and the Conditions for Refusal: Gendered Developments in Bangkok / Ara Wilson -- 4. Dancing on the Edge: Women, Culture, and a Passion for Change / Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Krista Bywater -- 5. Resisting Westernity and Refusing Development / Molefi Kete Asante -- Pt. II. Emergent Discourses of Development -- 6. From Roosevelt in Germany to Bush in Iraq: Development's Discourse of Liberation, Democracy, and Free Trade / Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo -- 7. Migrants, Genes, and Socioscientific Phobias: Charting the Fear of the "Third World" Tag in Discourses of Development in New Zealand / Debashish Munshi and Priya A. Kurian -- 8. Overseas Filipino Workers' Tales, or Globalization Discourses and Development / Ming-Yan Lai -- 9. Erratic Hopes and Inconsistent Expectations for Mexican Rural Women: A Critique of Economic Thinking on Alternatives to Poverty / Magdalena Villarreal -- 10. From Old to New Political Cultures of Opposition: Radical Social Change in an Era of Globalization / John Foran -- Pt. III. Fictions of Development -- 11. Mama Benz and the Taste of Money: A Critical View of a "Homespun" Rags-to-Riches Story of Post-Independence Africa / Lena Khor -- 12. History, Development, and Transformation in Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless People: A Conversation among Students of Development / Erin Kennedy, Edwin Lopez, Moira O'Neil and Molly Talcott -- 13. Urduja through the Looking Glass: A Response to Colonial Trauma / Tera Maxwell -- 14. Fictions of (Under)Development: Hunger Artists in the Global Economy / Francoise Lionnet -- Afterword / Susanne Schech.