Difference Between Post Development And Post-Development
Whatever power relations manifested in different aspects of the development paradigm are perceived by post-developments. Basically, the Post-development also has two distinct and entwined concepts: knowledge and power (Jakimow, 2008). Post-developmentists argue that the power of this world is in the hands of developed countries. Because power is crucially dominant factor, the aim of the post-development is successfully to transfer power from the hands of outside ‘expertized’ paradigm that has been designed and led by the developed world to the local members of the society itself so that the power should be locally oriented(Ziai, 2004). Since development is highly correlated with implementation of having power, evidence and arguments converge
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According to Escobar (2000), Post-development criticizes not only modernism development paradigm but also it rejects the conceptualizations of basic notions like ‘least developed’, ‘backward’, ‘traditional’, ‘third world’, ‘uncivilized’, ‘southerner’ etc. for the developing countries; and ‘developed’, ‘modern’, ‘industrial’, ‘first world’, ‘civilized’, northerner, etc. for the developed countries. Because they argue that the connotation of these concepts is even doubtful since they have been vaguely used in the academic studies. For example, we call African countries as ‘undeveloped’ or ‘underdeveloped’ but the Europeans as ‘developed’. However, ‘undeveloped’/’underdeveloped’ refers to lack of progress or to living below the level of development phenomena while ‘developed’ explains us the case of completed advancement or the saturation stage. This implies that African countries couldn’t develop but Europeans could finish their development. In reality, however, there are African countries which have been making progress more than stagnant level while European nations have also been moving to attain better development position yet. Thus the terms are primarily vaguely applied to the concepts of development argument to undermine psychologically other countries for
According to Escobar (2000), Post-development criticizes not only modernism development paradigm but also it rejects the conceptualizations of basic notions like ‘least developed’, ‘backward’, ‘traditional’, ‘third world’, ‘uncivilized’, ‘southerner’ etc. for the developing countries; and ‘developed’, ‘modern’, ‘industrial’, ‘first world’, ‘civilized’, northerner, etc. for the developed countries. Because they argue that the connotation of these concepts is even doubtful since they have been vaguely used in the academic studies. For example, we call African countries as ‘undeveloped’ or ‘underdeveloped’ but the Europeans as ‘developed’. However, ‘undeveloped’/’underdeveloped’ refers to lack of progress or to living below the level of development phenomena while ‘developed’ explains us the case of completed advancement or the saturation stage. This implies that African countries couldn’t develop but Europeans could finish their development. In reality, however, there are African countries which have been making progress more than stagnant level while European nations have also been moving to attain better development position yet. Thus the terms are primarily vaguely applied to the concepts of development argument to undermine psychologically other countries for