The Development Dictionary
eBook - PDF

The Development Dictionary

A Guide to Knowledge as Power

  1. 353 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Development Dictionary

A Guide to Knowledge as Power

About this book

In this classic collection, some of the world's most eminent critics of development review the key concepts of the development discourse. Each essay examines one concept from a historical and anthropological point of view, highlights its particular bias, and exposes its historical obsolescence and intellectual sterility. The authors argue that a bidding farewell to the whole Eurocentric development idea is urgently needed, in order to liberate people's minds in both North and South for bold responses to the environmental and ethical challenges now confronting humanity. The combined result forms a must-read invitation to experts, grassroots movements and students of development to recognize the tainted glasses they put on whenever they participate in the development discourse.

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Table of contents

  1. About the Editor
  2. Preface to the New Edition
  3. Introduction
  4. Development
  5. Environment
  6. Equality
  7. Helping
  8. Market
  9. Needs
  10. One World
  11. Participation
  12. Planning
  13. Population
  14. Poverty
  15. Production
  16. Progress
  17. Resources
  18. Science
  19. Socialism
  20. Standard of Living
  21. State
  22. Technology
  23. Contributors
  24. Index