INTD 200 Chapter Notes -Modernization Theory, Post-Structuralism, Neoliberalism

• School: McGill University
• Department: International Development
• Course: INTD 200
• Professor: Warren Allmand

Document Summary

Notes for intd 200 reading group (fall 2013) Textbook chapter 4 post-development and alternatives to development. Arthur hamilton: four key sections of the chapter. Historical context of the emergence of the post-development school. The post-development turn in development studies: historical context: emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, three key causes. Rise of social movements in latin america and the global south generally. The crisis in development theorizing and practice in the 1980s and 1990s: colonial goal of civilizing savage cultures had been restated under the guise of developing underdeveloped societies, modernization theory had already lost prominence to dependency theory, neoliberal view. Rejected keynesian and some other ideas included in modernization theory. Still maintained the concept of bringing development to less developed societies. Interrogating post-1945 development discourse: post-development perspectives: development theory had been increasingly fragmented, but now the concept of development as a whole was called into question, despite great variety, post-development theorists hold several concepts in common.