Development: intellectual, imaginative and practical aspects; Genealogy of development thinking: from colonial economics to development studies; Discourses of development: education, modernisation, capitalism, Eurocentrism, technological imperative, globalisation, dependency theory; Development criticism: feminism, pacifism, environmentalism, agrarianism; Postmodern critical theory of development: new populism, anti-developmentalism, ecofeminism; Cultural studies and post-development paradigms: cultural politics, cultural analyses, deconstructing ideologies of development.
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1. R. Munck and D.O�Hearn eds, Critical Development Theory: Contributions to a New Paradigm, Zed
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2. S. Corbridge, ed, Development Studies: A Reader, Arnold, 1995.
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