The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power, Second Edition (Development Essentials)

ISBN 10: 1848133804 / ISBN 13: 9781848133808

Published by Zed Books, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power, Second Edition (Development Essentials)
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848133804
• ISBN 13: 9781848133808
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

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 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.

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.

About the Author

Wolfgang Sachs is an author and research director at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, in Germany. He has been chair of the board of Greenpeace Germany, a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and is a member of the Club of Rome. Amongst the various appointments he has held are co-editor of the Society for International Development's journal Development; visiting professor of science, technology and society at Pennsylvania State University and fellow at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen. He regularly teaches at Schumacher College and as Honorary Professor at the University of Kassel.