Development criticism

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Development criticism refers to criticisms of development.

[edit] Common beliefs / ideas

They say such concepts make the life of primitive or alternative societies look misleadingly dull to modern people.^{[citation needed]} Modern societies apply subjective standards for welfare universally and (mis)judge other societies by them, for example, greater longevity is seen as an objectively good thing. Development critics often regard attempts to develop non-developed societies as a cause of misery and trouble, and thus recommend that development projects should be cancelled.^{[citation needed]} Some even see the word "development" as negative and think that it represents conceptual imperialism.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Notable development critics

[edit] See also

[edit] References

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[edit] Development-critical literature

• Arturo Escobar: Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World, Princeton University Press 1995, ISBN 0-691-00102-2
• Gilbert Rist, The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith, Expanded Edition, London: Zed Books, 2003, ISBN 1-84277-181-7
• The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power, ed. by Wolfgang Sachs, London: Zed Books, 1992, ISBN 1-85649-044-0
• Oren Ginzburg: There You Go! ISBN 974-92863-0-8
• Mohandas Gandhi: Hind Swaraj (1909)
• Ivan Illich: Tools for Conviviality (1973)
• Post-Development Reader[1] (Zed Books, ed. Majid Rahnema, 1997), ISBN 1-85649-474-8
• No Place of Grace: antimodernism and the transformation of American culture 1880-1920, 1994, ISBN 0-226-46970-0
• Henry Thoreau: Walden (1854)
• Theodore Kaczynski: Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)

[edit] External links

• Compost modernity
• Dr. Wolfgang Sachs / Sustainable Globalisation
• Stafford Beer World in Torment
• Antimodernism by Arthur Versluis