Development Dictionary The A Guide To Knowledge As Power

Author : Wolfgang Sachs
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1856490440

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The Development Dictionary by Wolfgang Sachs Pdf

In this pioneering collection, some of the world's most eminent critics of development review the key concepts of the development discourse in the post-war era. 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. These essays are an invitation to experts, grassroots movements and students of development to recognize the tainted glasses they put on whenever they participate in the development discourse.

Author : Wolfgang Sachs
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781848136458

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The Development Dictionary by Wolfgang Sachs Pdf

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.

Author : Wolfgang Sachs
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 8125011358

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Development Dictionary, The: A Guide to Knowledge as Power by Wolfgang Sachs Pdf

The last forty years can be called the age of development . But development has been much more than a socio-economic endeavour. It is a perception which models reality, a myth which comforts societies and a fantasy which unleashes passion. This book explores development as a particular world view. The essays are an invitation to experts, grassroot movements and students of development to recognise the tainted glasses they put on whenever they participate in the development discourse.

Author : Aram Ziai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429836534

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The Development Dictionary @25 by Aram Ziai Pdf

Few books in the history of Development Studies have had an impact like The Development Dictionary – A Guide to Knowledge as Power, which was edited by Wolfgang Sachs and published by Zed Books in 1992. The Development Dictionary was crucial in establishing what has become known as the Post-Development (PD) school. This volume is devoted to the legacy of The Development Dictionary and to discussing Post-Development. This book originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Author : Wolfgang Sachs
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1856491641

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Global Ecology by Wolfgang Sachs Pdf

Behind the public's hope of effective action by governments on environmental issues lies a complex terrain of conceptual confusion, conflicts of interest and philosophical dispute. This is why some of the world's leading environmental thinkers have come together in this volume to probe critically the new language being developed by environmental professionals. They examine the contradictions inherent in the fashionable notion of sustainable development. They explore the emerging conflicts over the distribution of environmental risks between North and South. And they warn that 'global ecology' seen in a managerial perspective, may degenerate into an effor to redesign and manage Nature in order to keep economic growth going in the face of a rising tide of resource plunder and pollution. This book seeks to launch a critical debate in order to clarify the issues involves and what might constitute appropriate action.

Author : Wolfgang Sachs,Reinhard Loske,Manfred Linz
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1856495086

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Greening the North by Wolfgang Sachs,Reinhard Loske,Manfred Linz Pdf

This text presents an analysis and proposals for managing the transition to environmental sustainability in industrial countries. The concept of "environmental space" and its development of indicators for measuring an economy's national and global impact give the text potential political impact.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Philadelphia ; Gabriola Island, B.C. : New Society Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015032832019

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Whose Common Future? by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard M. Auty,John Toye
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349139927

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Challenging the Orthodoxies by Richard M. Auty,John Toye Pdf

This book provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary critique of the new economic orthodoxy as represented by the Washington Consensus. The originator of the term, John Williamson, updates his original thesis which is then discussed by an interdisciplinary group of scholars that includes economists, environmentalists, political scientists, institutionalists, sociologists and a philosopher. The papers span a range of viewpoints which includes sympathetic modifications to the consensus as well as strong rejections of it.

Author : Marianne H Marchand,Jane L. Parpart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134846542

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Feminism/ Postmodernism/ Development by Marianne H Marchand,Jane L. Parpart Pdf

In a world where global restructuring is leading to both integration and fragmentation, the meaning and practice of development are increasingly contested. New voices from the South are challenging Northern control over development. Feminism/Postmodernism/Development is a comprehensive study of this power struggle. It examines new issues, "voices", and dilemmas in development theory and practice. Drawing on the experiences of women from Africa, Latin America, and Asia, as well as women of colour, this collection questions established development practices and suggests the need to incorporate issues such as identity, representation, indigenous knowledge, and political action. Feminism/Postmodernism/Development acknowledges the importance of Third World and minority women's experiences. It acknowledges their importance for development and suggests that postmodernist insights can enhance their quest for empowerment.

Author : Wolfgang Sachs
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783603428

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Planet Dialectics by Wolfgang Sachs Pdf

All effects of human action will inevitably be played out within our planet’s limits; any hope of infinity is an illusion. And yet, as Wolfgang Sachs warned almost twenty years ago, environmental concerns have been assimilated into the rhetoric, dynamics and power structures of development. This classic collection of trenchant and elegant explorations addresses the crisis of the Western world’s relations with nature and social justice. Examining the notions of efficiency, speed, globalization and development, Sachs shows that sustainability, truly conceived, is incompatible with the worldwide rule of economism. Planet Dialectics reveals that the Western development model is fundamentally at odds with both the quest for justice among the world’s people and the aspiration to reconcile humanity and nature.

Author : Aram Ziai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317622147

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Development Discourse and Global History by Aram Ziai Pdf

The manner in which people have been talking and writing about ‘development’ and the rules according to which they have done so have evolved over time. Development Discourse and Global History uses the archaeological and genealogical methods of Michel Foucault to trace the origins of development discourse back to late colonialism and notes the significant discontinuities that led to the establishment of a new discourse and its accompanying industry. This book goes on to describe the contestations, appropriations and transformations of the concept. It shows how some of the trends in development discourse since the crisis of the 1980s – the emphasis on participation and ownership, sustainable development and free markets – are incompatible with the original rules and thus lead to serious contradictions. The Eurocentric, authoritarian and depoliticizing elements in development discourse are uncovered, whilst still recognizing its progressive appropriations. The author concludes by analysing the old and new features of development discourse which can be found in the debate on Sustainable Development Goals and discussing the contribution of discourse analysis to development studies. This book is aimed at researchers and students in development studies, global history and discourse analysis as well as an interdisciplinary audience from international relations, political science, sociology, geography, anthropology, language and literary studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315753782, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Andrea Cornwall,Deborah Eade
Publisher : Practical Action Pub
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1853397067

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Deconstructing Development Discourse by Andrea Cornwall,Deborah Eade Pdf

Andrea Cornwall is Professor of Anthropology and Development in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. --

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307874290

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Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen Pdf

By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers--perhaps even the majority of people--he concludes, it is still possible to practically and optimistically restain a sense of social accountability. Development as Freedom is essential reading.

Author : Ashish Kothari,Ariel Salleh,Arturo Escobar,Federico Demaria,Alberto Acosta
Publisher : Tulika Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 8193732987

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Pluriverse by Ashish Kothari,Ariel Salleh,Arturo Escobar,Federico Demaria,Alberto Acosta Pdf

This is a collection of over a hundred essays on alternatives to the dominant processes of globalized development, including its structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values. The book presents views and practices from around the world in a collective search for an ecologically and socially just world.

Author : Judith S. Levey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0439798345

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Scholastic First Dictionary by Judith S. Levey Pdf

Presents definitions for over 1,500 head words and includes some 600 color photographs.