DVM 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Modernization Theory, Structural Adjustment, Wolfgang Sachs
29 Jan 2018
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Method is how you intend to carry out your research. Post-development is how the development theories and practices have failed. To understand the contexts of post-development critiques. The criticisms of the work of post-development scholars. Ahistorical: neglect of the historical experiences of countries in the di erentiated. Eurocentric, eurocentrism: a bias towards glorifying the values, practices, and historical development experience of europe and the united states. Homogenization: the tendency in dominant theories of development to portray the diverse societies comprising the global south as sharing the same history, cultural practices, and political and economic realities. Depoliticization: conceptual practices that present political-economic issues as technical matters requiring technical solutions. Post-development school as a novel but controversial approach. Post-development approach engaged in destructive instead of constructive criticism of development theory: development as an unburied corpse (esteva 1992, development as a ruin in the intellectual landscape (sachs 1992)
