![]() ![]() Moreover, post-development theory is reluctant to suggest concrete political alternatives, arguing the post-structuralist position that to do so implies ‘capture’ by the development discourse. Post-development theory is guilty of homogenising the idea of development, thereby conflating all theories of development with the outmoded (and long discredited) theory of modernisation. This article questions such views, by suggesting that not all theories of development can be tarred with the same brush. ![]() Some writers argue that the idea of development therefore constitutes a new form of colonialism. Theories of post-development argue that all ideas of development imply the exercise of power over subject peoples in the so-called Third World. The most ostensibly radical response to the crisis in development theory has been to reject outright the idea of development. ![]()
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