The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global FaithZed Books, 2002 - 286 pages For years we have believed in development. Indeed, with all its hopes of a more just and materially prosperous world, development has fascinated societies in both North and South. Looking at this collective fancy in retrospect, Gilbert Rist shows the underlying similarities of its various theories and strategies, and their shared inability to transform the world. He argues persuasively that development has always been a kind of collective delusion which in reality has simply promoted a widening of market relations despite the good intentions of its advocates. |
Table des matières
Metamorphoses of a Western Myth | 25 |
The Making of a World System | 47 |
The Invention of Development | 69 |
Modernization Poised between History and Prophecy | 93 |
The Periphery and the Understanding of History | 109 |
The Communal Past as a Model | 123 |
The Triumph of ThirdWorldism | 140 |
The Environment or the New Nature of Development | 171 |
A Mixture of Realism and Fine Sentiments | 197 |
Globalization as Simulacrum | 211 |
Some Thoughts on What is to be Done | 238 |
Slogan and Alibi | 249 |
Bibliography | 266 |
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