Exploring Post-Development

Tackling issues surrounding post-development which is arguably one of the most significant debates in the field of north-south relations at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore the possibilities and limitations of post-development theory and practice drawing on empirical studies of movements and communities in several continents. <p><strong>Part 1: Introduction</strong> 1. Development Discourse and its Critics: An Introduction to Post-Development, <em>Aram Ziai</em> 2. 'Post-Development' as Concept and Social Practice, <em>Arturo Escobar</em> <strong>Part 2: Theory</strong> 3. Development: The Devil We Know, <em>Knut G. Nustad</em> 4. Post-Development and the Discourse-Agency Interface, <em>Jon Harald Sande Lie</em> 5. On the Singular Name of Post-Development: Serge Latouche's <em>Destruktion</em> of Development and the Possibility of Emancipation, <em>Yoshihiro Nakano</em> <strong>Part 3: Problems</strong> 6. Pacific Indigenous Development and Post-International Realities, <em>Susan Maiava and Trevor King</em> 7. Post-Development and Further: Difference from 'Inside' and Autonomy <em>Luciole Sauviat</em> 8. The Ambivalence of Post-Development: Between Reactionary Populism and Radical Democracy, <em>Aram Ziai</em> <strong>Part 4: Practice</strong> 9. What, Then, Should We Do?: Insights and Experiences of a Senegalese NGO, <em>Sally Matthews</em> 10. Surplus Possibilities: Post-Development and Community Economies, <em>J. K. Gibson-Graham</em> 11. Plachimada Resistance: A Post-Development Social Movement Metaphore, <em>K. Ravi Raman</em> 12. <em>Comida</em>: A Narrative Mirror for the Universal Concept of Nutrition, <em>Martina Kaller-Dietrich </em><strong>Part 5: Perspectives</strong> 13. Post-Development: Unveiling Clues for a Possible Future, <em>Ana Agostino</em> 14. Development, Internationalism and Social Movements: A View From the North, <em>Friederike Habermann and Aram Ziai</em> 15. Concluding the Exploration: Post-Development Reconsidered, <em>Aram Ziai</em></p>