ISBN:
9781849640916
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1849640912
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (ix, 177 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
Series Statement:
Third World in global politics
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Parfitt, Trevor W., 1954- End of development?
DDC:
306.3
Keywords:
Development economics
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Development economics
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Development ; General
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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Entwicklungsökonomie
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Electronic book
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Electronic books
Abstract:
1.Introduction: The End of Development? --2.From Post-Modernity to Post-Development --3.Discourse of Power or Truth? --4.Towards a Development of Least Violence? --5.New Social Movements: A Subject of Development? --6.Aid and the Principle of Least Violence --7.Conclusion.
Abstract:
Annotation
Abstract:
Over the past fifteen years, ideas in the field of development studies have been highly contested. During this time, most countries from the South have come under the iron heel of the IMF and World Bank, who have imposed structural adjustment programmes wherever they have provided loan capital to governments. However, these programmes have had little success, and development studies has suffered accordingly. Many development theorists turned to postmodernist theory to try to move on from this impasse, which in the 1990s led to a new line of critical thought that heralded 'the end of development'. They argued that development studies should be replaced by new strategies of emancipation, or 'new social movements' theory, originating in groups such as the Zapatistas of Mexico. This book summarises the contested ideas of development studies and new social movements theory while rejecting calls for the end of development. Using postmodern theory to demonstrate that forms of development can be complementary to emancipatory social movement projects, Trevor Parfitt develops an alternative model of development which incorporates the needs of peoples both South and North.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-170) and index. - Description based on print version record
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Description based on print version record
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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