The Post-Development Dictionary

by Ashish Kothari

This innovative collection identifies new alternatives to the dominant paradigm of globalized development, offering a critical analysis of the current paradigm's structural roots in capitalism, state domination, and patriarchy. Bringing together highly respected scholars across a variety of disciplines, including Vandana Shiva, Satisk Kumar, Silvia Federici, and Boaventura de Sousa Santos, the book goes beyond Sach's critique of development to consider how we might reach a point of 'post-development', an era in which development will no longer be the central organizing principle of social life. The result is a substantive guide to the subject's rich variety of worldviews, going further to critique current attempts to 'greenwash' development with superficial solutions to its harmful social and environmental costs, including contemporary debates around what it means to be ecologically wise and socially just. Building on Wolfgang Sachs's landmark work The Development Dictionary, this book transforms our understanding of development studies as a landmark in its field for students and academics across the humanities and social sciences.

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