PHIL 348 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Postdevelopment Theory, Participatory Development, Ebola Virus Disease
26 Sep 2016
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Alternatives to development (attitude of not needing development anymore) What is post-development discourse: emergence of a set of critical views of development arising in the late 1980"s, demand alternatives to development" rather than alternative development", hegemony of the west=keeping developing countries underdeveloped. Key issues: assumptions and oversimpli ed views of developing countries (no re ecting of complex local realities, unquestioned and unchallenged attitude of practitioners of top down development. Ferguson: development as a form of bankruptcy": example of lesotho, strong presence of intd agencies, large amount of money poured into well-intended development projects, unintended outcomes:little progress or stagnated. Discrepancies between development assumptions and local realities: hegemony of development ideologies=unchallanged ideologies based on assumptions and false images, making a fantasy of the third world". !1: apolitical development: ignoring local political problems and viewing the state as a neutral development provider and partner.
