Development, post-, anti-, and populist: A critical review

Blaikie, Piers (2000) Development, post-, anti-, and populist: A critical review. Environment and Planning A, 32 (6). pp. 1033-1050. ISSN 0308-518X

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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.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	27 Jan 2014 15:38
Last Modified:	07 Aug 2023 16:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/45534
DOI:	10.1068/a3251

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