With the collapse of colonialism, the millions who had joined the struggle accepted their leaders' new call for 'development'. Little today remains of that enthusiasm. The question they now ask is: can anything be done to stop the process and regenerate the forces needed to bring about change more in accordance with their own aspirations? This reader brings together an exceptionally gifted group of thinkers and activists - from South and North - who have long pondered these questions. Diverse in background and experience, they are all committed, however, to seeing through the rhetoric of development, free from the distorting lenses of ideology and habit. They are also interested in looking at 'the other side of the story', particularly from the perspective of the 'losers'. It is these orientations which make this reader such an original compilation. The contributors illuminate the wisdom of vernacular society which modern development thinking and practice has done so much to denigrate and destroy. They deliver devastating critiques of the dominant development paradigm and what it has done to the peoples of the world and their richly diverse and sustainable ways of living. Most importantly, in terms of the future, they present some of the experiences and ideals out of which ordinary people are now trying to construct their own more humane and culturally and ecologically respectful alternatives to development, which, in turn, may provide useful signposts for those concerned with the post-development era that is now at hand.
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This reader brings together thinking on development by scholars, practitioners and activists from both North and South. They provide a critique of what the mainstream paradigm has in practice done to the peoples of the world and to their richly diverse and sustainable ways of living.
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Introduction - Majid RahnemaPart I: The Vernacular World1. The Original Affluent Society - Marshall Sahlins2. Learning from Ladakh - Helena Norberg-Hodge3. The Economy and Symbolic Sites of Africa - Hassan Zaoual4. Our Responsibility to the Seventh Generation - Linda Clarkson, Vern Morrissette and Gabriel Regallet5. The Sprial of the Ram's Horn: Boran Concepts of Development - Gudrun Dahl and Gemetchu MegerssaPart II: The Development Paradigm6. The Idea of Progress - Teodor Shanin7. Faust, The First Developer - Marshall Berman8. The Making and Unmaking of the Third World through Development - Arturo Escobar9. Development as Planned poverty - Ivan Illich10. Twenty-six Years Later - Ivan Illich in conversation with Majid Rahnema11. Development and the People's Immune System: The Story of Another Variety of AIDS - Majid RahnemaPart III: The Vehicles of Development12. Paradoxical Growth - Serge Latouche13. The Agony of the Modern State - Rajni Kothari14. Education as an Instrument of Cultural Defoliation: A Multi-Voice Report - Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Jo-Ann Archibald, Edouard Lizop and Majid Rahnema15. Western Science and Its Destruction of Local Knowledge - Vandana Shiva16. Colonization of the Mind - Ashis Nandy17. The One and Only Way of Thinking - Ignacio Ramonet18. The New Cultural Domination by the Media - James Petras19. How the United Nations Promotes Development through Technical AssistancePart IV: Development in Practice20. How the Poor Develop the Rich - Susan George21. To Be Like Them - Eduardo Galeano22. Development and the Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho - James Ferguson23. Transmigration in Indonesia: How Millions Are Uprooted - Graham Hancock24. 'Women in Development': A Threat to Liberation - Pan Simmons25. Tehri: A Catastrophic Dam inthe Himalayas - Peter Bunyard26. The Development Game - Leonard FrankPart V: Towards the Post-Development Age27. From Global Thinking to Local Thinking - Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash28. The Need for the Home Perspective - Wolfgang Sachs29. Basta! Mexican Indians Say 'Enough!' - Gustavo Esteva30. The Quest for Simplicity - 'My Idea of Swaraj' - Mahatma Gandhi31. The Searchers after the Simple Life - David E. Shi32. The infrapolitics of Subordinate Groups - James C. Scott33. Alternatives from an indian Grassroots Perspective - D. L. Sheth34. The Power of the Powerless: Citizens against the State in Central Eastern Europe - Vaclac Havel35. Protecting the Space Within - Karen Lehman36. Birth of the Inclusion Society - Judith A. Snow37. Reinventing the Present: The Chodack Experience in Senegal - EmmanuelSeni N'Dione, Philippe de Leener, Jean-Pierre Perier, Mamadou Ndiaye and Pierre JacolinAfterword: Towards Post-Development: Searching for Signposts,a New Language and New Paradigms - Majid RahnemaSuggested ReadingsList of BoxesIndex
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'A monument to the vigour of commonsense in resisting the belief that progress can be likened to a law of nature. This book is a primer for reflection on the fertile potential of the loss of 20th century certainties.' Ivan Illich
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781856494748
Publisert
1997-03-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Zed Books Ltd
Aldersnivå
05, 06, UU, UP, P
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
464

Biographical note

Majid Rahnema (1924 - 14 April 2015) was a diplomat and former government minister in Iran.

Victoria Bawtree is a member of The World is Not for Sale collective.