The Postdevelopment Reader 5z5e2m

PART O N E

THE VERNACULAR W O R L D

1 T h e O r i g i n a l Affluent Society Marshall Sahlins 2 Learning from Ladakh Helena Norberg-Hodge 3 T h e E c o n o m y a n d Symbolic Sites o f Africa Hassan Zaoual 4 O u r Responsibility to t h e Seventh G e n e r a t i o n Linda Clarkson, Vern Morrissette and Gabriel Regallet 5 T h e Spiral of the R a m s H o r n : B o r a n C o n c e p t s o f D e v e l o p m e n t Gudrun Dahl and Gemetchu Megerssa

PART T W O

THE DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM

6 T h e Idea of Progress Teodor Shanin 7 Faust, the First D e v e l o p e r Marshall Berman 8 T h e M a k i n g and U n m a k i n g o f t h e T h i r d W o r l d through Development Arturo Escobar 9 D e v e l o p m e n t as P l a n n e d Poverty Ivan Mich 10 Twenty-six Years Later Ivan Mich in conversation with Majid

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11 D e v e l o p m e n t and the P e o p l e s I m m u n e System: T h e Story of A n o t h e r Variety of A I D S Majid Rahnema

PART T H R E E

THE VEHICLES OF

DEVELOPMENT

12 Paradoxical G r o w t h Serge Latouche 13 T h e A g o n y o f the M o d e r n State Rajni Kothari 14 E d u c a t i o n as an I n s t r u m e n t of Cultural Defoliation: A Multi-Voice R e p o r t Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Jo-Ann Archibald, Edouard Lizop and Majid Rahnema 15 W e s t e r n Science and Its D e s t r u c t i o n of Local K n o w l e d g e Vandana Shiva 16 C o l o n i z a t i o n of t h e M i n d Ashis Nandy 17 T h e O n e a n d O n l y Way of T h i n k i n g Ignacio Ramonet 18 T h e N e w Cultural D o m i n a t i o n by t h e M e d i a James Petras 19 H o w t h e U n i t e d N a t i o n s P r o m o t e s D e v e l o p m e n t t h r o u g h Technical Assistance Pierre de Senarclens

PART

FOUR

DEVELOPMENT

IN

PRACTICE

20 H o w t h e P o o r D e v e l o p t h e R i c h Susan George 21 To B e Like T h e m Eduardo Galeano 22 D e v e l o p m e n t a n d Bureaucratic P o w e r in Lesotho James Ferguson 23 Transmigration in Indonesia: H o w Millions Are U p r o o t e d Graham Hancock 24 ' W o m e n in D e v e l o p m e n t ' : A T h r e a t to Liberation Pam Simmons 25 Tehri: A Catastrophic D a m in t h e Himalayas Peter Bunyard

PART FIVE

TOWARDS THE POST-DEVELOPMENT AGE

27 F r o m Global T h i n k i n g to Local T h i n k i n g Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash 28 T h e N e e d for t h e H o m e Perspective Wolfgang Sachs 29 Basta! M e x i c a n Indians S a y ' E n o u g h ! ' Gustavo Esteva 30 T h e Q u e s t for S i m p l i c i t y : ' M y Idea of Swaraj' Mahatma Gandhi 31 T h e Searchers after the Simple Life David E. Shi 32 T h e Infrapolitics of Subordinate G r o u p s James C. Scott 33 Alternatives from an Indian Grassroots Perspective D.L. Sheth 3 4 T h e P o w e r of the Powerless: Citizens against t h e State in Central Eastern E u r o p e Vaclav Havel 35 Protecting the Space W i t h i n Karen Lehman 36 B i r t h of the Inclusion Society Judith A. Snow 37 R e i n v e n t i n g t h e Present: T h e C h o d a k E x p e r i e n c e in Senegal Emmanuel Seni N'Dione, Philippe de Leener, Jean-Pierre Perier, Mamadou Ndiaye and Pierre Jacolin

AFTERWORD Towards P o s t - D e v e l o p m e n t : Searching for Signposts, a N e w Language and N e w Paradigms Majid Rahnema Suggested R e a d i n g s