INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Westernization, Cultural Imperialism, Paradigm Shift

• School: McGill University
• Department: International Development
• Course: INTD 200
• Professor: Darin Barney

Document Summary

Critiques of development: main argument: development is no longer working, exacerbates false image of developing countries. Questions: main critique: so many well-intentioned projects failed . What is post-development discourse: set of critical views/analyses of development projects/discourse. Two significant factors they highlight in post-development discourse: 1. Demand alternative to development (we don"t need dev"t, we need an alternative: 2. Hegemony: contemporary setting of post-development scholars: we cannot ignore normative dominance of the west the problem of such hegemony is that keeping these development projects/countries underdeveloped. Dependency theorists criticized top-down teleological understanding of development discourse: but, post-development scholars are equally critical but go farther: they say we don"t need development anymore, post-development (we don"t need development at all) Third world that is oversimplified based on assumptions of developing countries. James ferguson: article: summary of his book, anti-politics machine , development projects are to bring/inject political ideology or practice, highlights hegemony ideology.