In his 1949 inaugural address, President Harry S. Truman heralded the era of international development, a -worldwide effort for the achievement of peace, plenty, and freedom- that would aim to -greatly increase the industrial activity in other nations and. . . . raise substantially their standards of living.- At the time, more than half of the world's population lived in areas defined as underdeveloped; today, that figure surprisingly remains the same. Arguing that such persistent stagnation resulted partly from poor comprehension of the terms -developed- and -underdeveloped, - this...
In his 1949 inaugural address, President Harry S. Truman heralded the era of international development, a -worldwide effort for the achievement of pea...
Grassroots Post-modernism resolutely attacks the three sacred cows of modernity - the idea that there is only one, universally valid way of understanding social reality; the exclusive and general validity of Western-defined notions of 'human'; and the notion of the self-sufficient individual, as opposed to people-in-community - that have so grotesquely warped hour view of the human condition. Esteva and Prakash argue that even alternative development prescriptions deprive the people of control over their own lives, shifting this control to bureaucrats, technocrats, and educators. Rather than...
Grassroots Post-modernism resolutely attacks the three sacred cows of modernity - the idea that there is only one, universally valid way of understand...
