SOSC 1430 Chapter 4: Reading 2 - Article Notes Included
29 Sep 2016
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Reading 2 - chapter 4, the history of an idea & 25 years of diminished progress. Postdevelopment theory (also post-development, or anti- development) holds that the whole concept and practice of development is a reflection of western-northern hegemony over the rest of the world. Questioning and disruption of the concept of development was conceived and practiced after 1945. After the 1970"s, "the myth of development" emerged along with modernity, and other assumptions that informed development discourse. James ferguson contends that development discourse needs to be questioned. It is a practice, structured, and has real effects which are more profound than "mystification". The thoughts and actions of "development" bureaucrats are powerfully shaped by the world of acceptable statements and utterances within which they live. Development took a different turn in the post-1945 period. Behind the humanitarian concern, new subtle and refined forms of power and control were put in operation.
