Exploring Post-Development

Theory and Practice, Problems and Perspectives

Aram Ziai

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN: 9780415417648
• eBook ISBN: 9781134114412
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

Tackling issues surrounding post-development which is arguably one of the most significant debates in the field of north-south relations at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore the possibilities and limitations of post-development theory and practice drawing on empirical studies of movements and communities in several continents.

Index

References to notes are prefixed by n.

• absences: sociology of 145–6, 197, 202–4
• activists 220–3
• actor-oriented approach 42, 48, 56–8, 60
• actors: and agency 54
• agency 86
• agricultural change: Fiji 89–91
• alternative development 21, 63, 111, 134, 176–7
• alternative economies 220
• alternatives: to development 5, 176–7, 204–6
• Alvares, C 121, 125n6
• amelioration 85, 91, 95
• ‘anti-essentialism’ 23
• ‘anti-foundationalism’ 23
• anti-globalization movement 197
• Anti-Politics Machine, The 37, 47
• ‘anti-utilitaristic movement’ (MAUSS) 102
• Apffel-Marglin, F 125n14
• Arce, A 24, 42, 58–9
• Arkoun, Mohammed 107
• Ashley, Richard 233n3
• Assets Based Community Development (ABCD) method 160n3
• attentiveness 204
• autonomy 99, 102–7
• balkanization 29
• Banuri, T 118, 123
• Barangay Bunga Ilaya 157
• Barangay Cambugason 157–8
• Bebbington, Anthony 24
• Being (Sein) 65–6
• Being there (Dasein) 67
• Belshaw, C. S 88
• Berlin protests 220–1
• Bloch, Ernst 210
• Bogotá, Colombia 41
• Bohol 148
• Bolivia 174
• borders, open 217–18
• bottom-up development 39–40, 43, 48–9
• Brigg, M 113
• BUKO, the 213–20
• Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit (BMZ) 213–14
• campaigns 165
• capitalism 18, 85, 163–4, 221
• capitalist productivity 203
• case studies: Cola-Quit Plachimada Campaign 166–76; comida 183–92; Ethiopian development project 47, 48–52; indigenous development 87–94
• Castaneda, Carlos 182
• Castoriadis, Cornelius 99, 102–7
• Cato Manor development project 43
• cattle farming: and cultural exchanges 91–4
• Chambers, R 83
• Coca-Cola 166–71
• ‘cognitive imperialism’ 223
• Cola-Quit Plachimada Campaign 166–76
• collective development 150
• collective identity 76
• Collier, A 136
• Cologne foundation ‘women’s initiative’ 220
• Colombia 175
• Colombian Pacific 21
• colonialism 5
• comida 181, 183–92
• common values 141
• communism 36
• community-based enterprises 156–7
• community economy 154–8
• constructivism 23
• constructivist concept: of culture 117–18
• contamination: of water supplies 167–8, 169
• co...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Development discourse and its critics An introduction to post-development
• ‘Post-development' as concept and social practice
• Theory
• Development The devil we know?
• Post-development and the discourse—agency interface
• On the singular name of post-development Serge Latouche's Destruktion of development and the possibility of emancipation
• Problems
• Pacific indigenous development and post-intentional realities
• Post-development and further Difference from ‘inside' and autonomy
• The ambivalence of post-development Between reactionary populism and radical democracy
• Practice
• What, then, should we do? Insights and experiences of a Senegalese NGO
• Surplus possibilities Post-development and community economies
• Plachimada resistance A post-development social movement metaphor?
• Comida A narrative mirror for the universal concept of nutrition
• Perspectives
• Post-development Unveiling clues for a possible future
• Development, internationalism and social movements A view from the North
• Concluding the exploration Post-development reconsidered
• Index