Post Development

Question 1

Key thinker in post-development

Answer 1

Escobar

Question 2

Critics post-development, no real alternatives to dev. development offers tech improvements and democracy

Answer 2

Nederveen Pieterse (2000)

Question 3

Truman, development 1949 speech

Answer 3

2 billion deemed ‘underdeveloped’ USA portrayed as a hero (Esteva 2019)

Question 4

Critical of sustainable development goals but claimed we still need dev

Answer 4

Swain 2017

Question 5

Example of country succeeding without development

Answer 5

Bhutan, happy country but relatively poor (world pop review 2024)

Question 6

Critical of foreign aid from developed countries

Answer 6

Fentahun 2023, countries become dependant + corruption + act of colonialism

Question 7

Developed postcolonialism, West positions itself as superior

Answer 7

Said 1978

Question 8

Wretched of the Earth, looks at psychological impacts of colonialism, calls for implementation of new structures of equality in its aftermath

Answer 8

Fanon + Frantz 1961

Question 9

Infinite growth in finite world is madman or economist

Answer 9

Boulding 1973