Development, Post-, Anti-, and Populist: A Critical Review
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- 1 June 2000
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
- Vol. 32 (6), 1033-1050
- https://doi.org/10.1068/a3251
Abstract
The notion and practice of development have been severely critiqued from both modernist and postmodernist perspectives, yet the global development industry flourishes. The latter have afforded important insights, but also suffer from unexamined ideological agendas, a disinclination to undertake detailed research into development processes and policy, a preoccupation with texts and representations by the development industry, and from perpetuating an indulgent and agenda-less academic cul-de-sac. Instead, the postmodern critique of development could lead to a more politically astute and practical reconstruction of certain aspects of ‘development’, particularly in the neopopulist mode of developmentalism. Three powerful development paradigms are identified, and the ways in which they are constructed, promoted, and adapted are discussed in the light of conflicting modernist and postmodern accounts.Keywords
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