The development dictionary : a guide to knowledge as power

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Title:

Author:

Sachs, Wolfgang.

ISBN:

9781848133792

9781848133808

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication Information:

London : Zed Books, 2010.

Physical Description:

xx, 332 p. ; 22 cm.

General Note:

Previous ed.: 1992.

Contents:

Introduction / Wolfgang Sachs -- Development / Gustavo Esteva -- Environment / Wolfgang Sachs -- Equality / C. Douglas Lummis -- Helping / Marianne Gronemeyer -- Market / Gérald Berthoud -- Needs / Ivan Illich -- One world / Wolfgang Sachs -- Participation / Majid Rahnema -- Planning / Arturo Escobar -- Population / Barbara Duden -- Poverty / Majid Rahnema -- Production / Jean Robert -- Progress / José María Sbert -- Resources / Vandana Shiva -- Science / Claude Alvares -- Socialism / Harry Cleaver -- Standard of living / Serge Latouche -- State / Ashis Nandy -- Technology / Otto Ullrich.

Abstract:

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 and highlights its particular bias. Exposing their historical obsolescence and intellectual sterility, the authors call for a bidding farewell to the whole Eurocentric development idea. This is urgently needed, they argue, 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.

Subject Term:

Economic development -- Terminology.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Power (Social sciences)

Added Author:

Sachs, Wolfgang.

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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.