Postcolonial Imaginaries: Alternative Development or Alternatives to Development?

Mahmud, Tayyab

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Postcolonial Imaginaries: Alternative Development or Alternatives to Development?

Tayyab Mahmud

Seattle University School of Law - Center for Global Justice

Spring 1999

Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1999

Abstract:
This review essay critically interrogates the discourse and practice of development. It is argued that models of alternative development remain imprisoned in the ontological categories of the development project, an ideological and institutional devise to consolidate the hegemony of the West over the rest. Finally, a framework to explore alternatives to development is suggested.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 10

Keywords: development, colonialism, empire, third world

JEL Classification: B1, N10, O1, O10, O2, O11, O19, P16

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Date posted: July 16, 2009

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Mahmud, Tayyab, Postcolonial Imaginaries: Alternative Development or Alternatives to Development? (Spring 1999). Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1999. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1433562

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