Postdevelopment

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ID23726520
AuthorsDavid Simon (0000-0002-3164-4138, Royal Holloway University of London, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages1-6
Publication date2017-03-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueInternational Encyclopedia of Geography (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0263
OpenAlexW4234559580
ISBN9781118786352
LanguageEN
References cited6

Postdevelopment encapsulates poststructuralist critiques of conventional or mainstream development approaches as they have evolved since World War II. These are perceived variously as misguided, inappropriate, often deleterious rather than beneficial and driven by donor and capitalist self‐interest rather than altruism. There is, however, considerable diversity in how postdevelopment itself is understood and deployed, not least in relation to antidevelopment. For some, postdevelopment constitutes principally critique; for others, both critiques and alternative visions; for others still, the two terms are effectively synonymous. The most useful distinction is to restrict antidevelopment to the critiques of conventional development, the sense in which it was originally deployed, with postdevelopment addressing alternative, more appropriate envisionings and agendas.

Altruism (biology) · Diversity (politics) · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Mainstream · Political science · Positive economics · Relation (database) · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Computer Science · International Development and Aid · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban Planning and Governance · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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