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"Postdevelopment Theory" published on by Oxford University Press.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Postdevelopment -- Postdevelopment and theoretical links -- Postdevelopment in practice -- The chapters -- Notes -- References -- PART I: Theorising a practice of postdevelopment -- 1. Postdevelopment @ 25: on 'being stuck' and moving forward, sideways, backward and otherwise -- Arturo -- Gustavo -- Arturo -- Gustavo -- Arturo -- Gustavo -- Arturo -- Gustavo -- Notes -- References -- 2. Postdevelopment in Japan: Revisiting Yoshirou Tamanoi's theory of regionalism -- Introduction -- Regionalism as a project of postdevelopment in Japan -- Reconstructing the common -- Four theoretical pillars of the common -- Unfinished debate: epistemologies of the South -- Concluding remark -- Notes -- References -- 3. Postdevelopment's forgotten 'other roots' in the Spanish and Latin American history of development thought -- Introduction -- Human and ecological development and human-scale development: psychological limits and harmonies -- Ecuador's buen vivir as the central goal of public policy -- Final considerations and future perspectives -- Notes -- References -- 4. Revisiting Transition -- Introduction -- Rethinking Marxism -- Modes of production and transition -- Class and classification -- A postfeudal politics -- Notes -- References -- 5. Praxis in world of the third contexts: Beyond third worldism and development studies -- Postdevelopment: beyond global-local -- The university unthought:3 from 'field-work' to 'working-in-the-fields' -- Beyond theoria: return to phronesis-praxis -- Beyond practice: beyond poiesis -- Beyond development -- Beyond third worldism: rethinking development as reconstruction -- Notes -- References -- 6. Crisis as opportunity: Finding pluriversal paths -- Notes.

Postdevelopment in Practice critically engages with recent trends in postdevelopment and critical development studies that have destabilised the concept of development, challenging its assumptions and exposing areas where it has failed in its objectives, whilst also pushing beyond theory to uncover alternatives in practice. This book reflects a rich and diverse range of experience in postdevelopment work, bringing together emerging and established contributors from across Latin America, South Asia, Europe, Australia and elsewhere, and it brings to light the multiple and innovative examples of postdevelopment practice already underway. The complexity of postdevelopment alternatives are revealed throughout the chapters, encompassing research on economy and care, art and design, pluriversality and buen vivir, the state and social movements, among others. Drawing on feminisms and political economy, postcolonial theory and critical design studies, the 'diverse economies' and 'world of the third' approaches and discussions on ontology and interdisciplinary fields such as science and technology studies, the chapters reveal how the practice of postdevelopment is already being carried out by actors in and out of development. Students, scholars and practitioners in critical development studies and those seeking to engage with postdevelopment will find this book an important guide to applying theory to practice.

Development is a project of hope, guided by the aspiration for greater social justice and emancipation of the poor and disadvantaged in the world. Over the past decade postdevelopment critics have argued that this project of hope has failed, and, instead

Development is a project of hope, guided by the aspiration for greater social justice and emancipation of the poor and disadvantaged in the world. Over the past decade postdevelopment critics have argued that this project of hope has failed, and, instead

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The development enterprise has deepened the maladaptation of a social order built on the values of modernity and coloniality. Postcolonial scholars critiqued the discourses that were perpetuating its failures. Latin American decolonial scholars sharpened the analysis, rejecting Eurocentric frames of thought and drawing on a plurality of voices and ways of knowing. Mounting evidence of global socio-ecological interdependence has led to the emergence of discourses of transition advocating a break with the civilizational model of the modern West. Buen vivir and postextractivism are two Latin American examples of these discourses. Although there are divergences between these and Northern transition discourses, the scale of civilizational transition renders dialogue imperative. A review of the path of Latin American critical thought raises the possibility of North-South synergies, highlighting the implications of a true dialogue of ways of knowing. El proyecto del desarrollo ha profundizado la mala adaptación de un orden social construido sobre los valores de la modernidad y la colonialidad. Los analistas poscoloniales hicieron una crítica de los discursos que perpetuaban dichos fracasos. Los académicos descoloniales latinoamericanos fueron más allá, rechazando marcos de pensamiento eurocéntricos y recurriendo a una pluralidad de voces y formas de saber. La creciente evidencia en torno a la interdependencia socioecológica global ha llevado a la aparición de discursos de transición que abogan por una ruptura con el modelo civilizatorio del Occidente moderno. El buen vivir y el posextractivismo son dos ejemplos latinoamericanos de estos discursos. Aunque hay divergencias entre ellos y los discursos de transición del Norte, la escala de la transición civilizatoria exige el diálogo. Una revisión de la línea de pensamiento crítico latinoamericano plantea la posibilidad de sinergias Norte-Sur, destacando las implicaciones de un verdadero diálogo de saberes.