INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Postdevelopment Theory, Post-Structuralism, Slash-And-Burn
19 Dec 2012
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The perceptions of what it means to be developed is a reflection of modernization. Post- development theory arose in the context of an academic movement of post- structuralism and post-modernism. Influence of post-modernism: a philosophical reaction to modernism (modernism studying empirically, objective; whereas postmodernism argues it is not objective). Language and concepts in construction of social reality they act to create our understanding of the world and how we give meaning to reality: ex. By labeling it as a forest, you think of it in one way, but thinking of it as a farm would give you very different perceptions of the people and what they do. It is situated in historical and cultural settings. How we see the world and how we understand truth depends on culture, context, time and place. Truth and reality are different for different people.
