DEVS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Postdevelopment Theory, Devs, Modernization Theory
24 Jun 2017
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Chapter 4: post-development and alternatives to development: the post-development school of thought emerged since the 1970s. It attempts to revolutionize approaches to development from many different viewpoints. There is great diversity among scholars and beliefs, but it all changes how development has been looked at since the end of wwii. The crisis in development theorizing and practice in the 1980s and 1990s: modernization thought dominated the 50s (cid:523)the (cid:498)civilizing(cid:499) of the (cid:498)other(cid:499)(cid:524), by the 60s, modernization was challenged by the dependency theory, dependency dominated until the 70s. By the 80s, modernization theory had been torn up but the development community. In the 80s, marxism and neo-marxism were viewed to be very limited especially those who are already greatly marginalized, who would suffer the most (like low-caste women of india, aboriginals, etc). The language used to describe africa legitimized the colonization that took place there.
