INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Postdevelopment Theory, Sub-Saharan Africa, Edward Said

• School: McGill University
• Department: International Development
• Course: INTD 200
• Professor: Kazue Takamura

Document Summary

Keywords: post-development, discursive hegemony of development, false representation, fantasy of the third world, orientalism, development bankruptcy, cultural imperialism (escobar, anti-politics machine (ferguson, alternatives to development. Development is a historically produced discourse that created a space in which only certain discourse could be said and even imagined. False representation of the third world: dominance of biased representations, power of western imagination of others , disqualifying alternative versions / narratives, determining actual development practices, shaping countries" self-presentation. Orientalism as a western style of dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the orient . James ferguson"s key ideas: discrepancies between development discourse and local realities, false representation of the third world, hegemony of development ideologies = unchallenged unquestioned ideologies based on . Imposing an economic model without considering local realities: diffusing false images and figures through official reports and development projects, example, 1975 world bank report on lesotho.