GS211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Totalitarianism, Discourse Analysis, Age Of Enlightenment
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Gs211 lesson 7: the post-development criique (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1: introduction. Early theories of development like modernization and dependency: focus on growth. Shift in thinking in 1970s-80s: counter-proposals and critiques: questions around sustainability and environment, poststructural critiques of development, feminism and development. Poststructural critiques: rooted in critique of modernity and rationality, focus on development discourse, structuralism and poststructuralism rapid overview. 1960s-early 1980s: critical development thinking dominated by. New strand of thinking is suspicious of this. Larger systems give meaning to the singular person or event. Critical structuralism: employs economic language to criticize capitalism (understood as class system) See potential for human emancipation in modern development. Gives more significance to the individual person or event: things are important in and of themselves. Modernity (understood as a system of symbols creating meaning) See development as a strategy of modern power and social control. Disillusionment in meta narratives (great stories like truth, emancipation, democracy, revolution or development).
