The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power
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Publication Date: December 1991
Publisher: Zed Books, Limited
Binding: Trade Paper
Topics: CIVILIZATION, MODERN_20TH CENTURY
Description:
In this pioneering collection, some of the world’s most eminent critics of development review the key concepts of the development discourse in the post-war era.
Each essay examines one concept from a historical and anthropological point of view and highlights its particular bias. Exposing their historical obsolescence and intellectual sterility, the authors call for a bidding farewell to the whole Eurocentric development idea. This is urgently needed, they argue, in order to liberate people’s minds - in both North and South - for bold responses to the environmental and ethical challenges now confronting humanity.
These essays are an invitation to experts, grassroots movements and students of development to recognize the tainted glasses they put on whenever they participate in the development discourse.
Review:
"Unique...the book is a scream of pain from the receiving end of a process experienced as cultural genocide." Guardian
Synopsis:
In this pioneering collection, some of the world's most eminent critics of development review the key concepts of the development discourse in the post-war era. Each essay examines one concept from a historical and anthropological point of view and highlights its particular bias. Exposing their historical obsolescence and intellectual sterility, the authors call for a bidding farewell to the whole Eurocentric development idea. This is urgently needed, they argue, in order to liberate people's minds - in both North and South - for bold responses to the environmental and ethical challenges now confronting humanity. These essays are an invitation to experts, grassroots movements and students of development to recognize the tainted glasses they put on whenever they participate in the development discourse.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Wolfgang Sachs1. Development - Gustavo Esteva2. Environment - Wolfgang Sachs3. Equality - C. Douglas Lummis4. Helping - Marianne Gronemeyer5. Market - Gerard Berthoud6. Needs - Ivan Illich7. One World - Wolfgang Sachs8. Participation - Majid Rahnema9. Planning - Arturo Escobar10. Population - Barbara Duden11. Poverty - Majid Rahnema12. Production - Jean Robert13. Progress - Jose Maria Sbert14. Resources - Vandana Shiva15. Science - Claude Alvares16. Socialism - Harry Cleaver17. Standard of Living - Serge Latouche18. State - Ashis Nandy19. Technology - Otto Ullrich
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