Post-Development - Questioning the Whole Paradigm

In this video, Prof. Dr. Aram Ziai, Chair of Development and Postcolonial Studies from the University of Kassel discusses Post-Development. Click show more for chapter links and a bibliography with many open access texts marked with 👉🏾.
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0:00 Introduction and Overview
0:19 What is Post-Development
1:19 Contextualising Post-Development
4:12 The Invention of Underdevelopment
7:49 Economics as culture
12:05 Development as an "amoeba concept"
14:39 The "Anti-Politics Machine"
17:35 The End of the Development Era
20:07 Alternatives to Development
26:24 Criticism of Post-Development
32:17 Two Schools of Post-Development: Neo-Populist and skeptical Post-Development
34:43 Decolonising Development Policy GPN Graduate School Workshop Series, Aram Ziai, University of Kassel
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Bibliography
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-- Blaikie, Piers. 2000. ‘Development, Post-, Anti-, and Populist: A Critical Review’. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 32(6): 1033-50. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/...
👉🏾-- Kothari, A., Salleh, A., Escobar, A., Demaria, F. and Acosta, A. 2019. ‘Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary’. Tulika Book. www.academia.edu/39692614/_Pl...
-- Escobar, Arturo. 1992. ‘Imagining a Post-Development Era? Critical Thought, Development and Social Movements’. Social Text (31/32): 20-56. www.jstor.org/stable/466217
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-- Latouche, S. 1993. In the Wake of the Affluent Society: An Exploration of Post-Development.
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[@joebrockliss7537]

Great summary. Well explained and easy to understand and follow. Thank you!

[@MoonlightWalnut]

Thank you for this summary! I am using the anti-politics machine as the key conceptual tool for my undergraduate dissertation. This was very helpful!

[@javierbecerril]

Thank you very much Prof. Dr. Aram Ziai for that great comprehensive overview of Post-Development theory. Greeting from The Economics Faculty at UADY (Mexico). We have to learn from the Maya's knowledge and philosophy life (in South Mexico, Yucatan).

[@tieganpaulson6560]

Thanks for making this! Having visuals and audio for this content was helpful, and I was glad to find something easily available for public use.

[@poep123456789ful]

Super helpful video to make me understand the whole process better :)

[@OwlsAreWatchingYou]

Thank you for that concise overview of post-development. I also really enjoyed your article in "Pluriverse" (what an amazing book!). Does anyone know how to work within the field of post-development? What skills are necessary and sought after? I'm enrolled in a masters in international development and i'm fascinated by the field, but not sure how to make a living in it. Any tips are appreciated! Thank you so much

[@fionaecker5605]

thank you for that great comprehensive overview of post-development theory! The illustrations are quite enriching and help for abstract ideas to be easier understood and even remembered.

[@canocarlosmario]

Thanks for this comprehensive lecture. I would like to ask if the script, as well as the bibliography are available in any place. It is also very encouraging that it is open access in a mainstream platform (despite I would love to see it out of Google, whether also in the UniPlatform or another not giant-tech platform). Looking forward to coming videos. And just one last point: It is Colombia, not Columbia :)

[@gpnicddnetwork5329]

Hello and thank you for expressing your interest. The complete bibliography is available and we are sharing it with you here: docs.google.com/document/d/1SxWYttpuOmWvL5Q5Nw-vN2EhBQUs6HdwXGSHNKWzJwU/edit?usp=sharing

[@gpnicddnetwork5329]

The bibliography is now also available in the video description.

[@kaakos9273]

you mentioned that Post-Devlopment considered that Devlopment is ideology ??? can you simplify this claim ??

[@samatkozhobaev5059]

Marx's initial ideas were as fluffy and innocent as post-development ideas

[@samatkozhobaev5059]

All good but what are zappatistas are willing to do with those who criticize their beliefs? Well, check out what commies did to those who disagreed with them. Idealizing post-development is not any different than idealizing any ideology or theory.