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Written by one of the leading authorities in the field, the Second Edition of this successful book:
Situates students in the expanding field of development theory; Provides an unrivalled guide to the strengths and weaknesses of competing theoretical approaches; Explains key concepts; Examines the shifts in theory; Offers an agenda for the future
In this book, the author brings a huge range of experience and knowledge about the relationship between the economically advanced and the emerging, developing nations.
After Post-Development
After Post-Development
The idea of development stands like a ruin in the intellectual landscape. Delusion and disappointment, failures and crime have been the steady companions of development and they tell a common story: it did not work. Moreover, the historical conditions which catapulted the idea into prominence have vanished: development has become outdated. (Wolfgang Sachs 1992b: 1)
Along with ‘anti-development’ and ‘beyond development’, post-development is a radical reaction to the dilemmas of development. Perplexity and extreme dissatisfaction with business-as-usual and standard development rhetoric and practice, and a disillusion with alternative development, are keynotes of this perspective. Development is rejected because it is the ‘new religion of the West’ (Rist 1990a), it is the imposition of science as power (Nandy 1988), it does not work (Kothari ...
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