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Post-Development and Alternatives to Development
- Define and discuss the term discourse.
- How is the concept of Eurocentrism related to post-development thought?
- Discuss why there is serious critique against the GDP as the indicator of development.
- What is Escobar’s response to the criticism that post-development had presented “development” as monolithic while in fact it was heterogeneous and contested?
- Discuss two ways in which post-development theory romanticizes the Global South.
- Define one of the critiques against post-development theories.
- What are the methodological challenges against post-development?
- What are some examples of post-development projects and movements?
- How can the Zapatista movement in Mexico be considered an example of post development movements?
- Define buen vivir and discuss its function in terms of post-development’s approaches.