BEYOND COLONIALISM

Development studies are currently in a state of flux. Long-accepted wisdom is being dismissed by new generations of scholars who inc reasingly set development and globalization on the same continuum as colonialism, premised as they are on a shared reductionist assu mption that progress and growth are objective facts to be measured, assessed, and controlled.This book gathers contributions from a number of prominent scholars who are on the cutting edge of this transformation in development studies, and the result is a clear pi cture of ...[Read more]