Development criticism

Development criticism refers to criticisms of technological development.

Notable development critics

Edward Abbey John Africa Stafford Beer (Viable System Model) Charles A. Coulombe Savitri Devi Stanley Diamond the Ecclesiastes (Qohelet) Jacques Ellul Arturo Escobar (anthropologist) Gustavo Esteva Julius Evola James Ferguson (anthropologist) Massimo Fini Masanobu Fukuoka

Mohandas Gandhi Edward Goldsmith David Graeber René Guénon Martin Heidegger Ivan Illich Derrick Jensen Theodore Kaczynski Ruhollah Khomeini Philip Larkin Pentti Linkola Ned Ludd Anthony Ludovici

Maria Mies Yukio Mishima MOVE organization Movimento Zero (Italian movement) François Partant Fredy Perlman Daniel Quinn Majid Rahnema Gilbert Rist Vandana Shiva Henry David Thoreau John Zerzan Manish Jain, founder of Shikshantar: The People's Institute for Rethinking Education and Development

See also

Degrowth Postdevelopment Theory Critique of technology Deep ecology Anarcho-primitivism Eco-anarchism Radical Traditionalism Neo-Tribalism Eco-feminism

Simple living Neo-Luddism Modernist Crisis Critical theory Social criticism Human history Industrialization High modernism Modernization Paradigm shifts

References

Development-critical literature

• Arturo Escobar: Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World, Princeton University Press 1995, ISBN 0-691-00102-2
• Gilbert Rist, The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith, Expanded Edition, London: Zed Books, 2003, ISBN 1-84277-181-7
• The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power, ed. by Wolfgang Sachs, London: Zed Books, 1992, ISBN 1-85649-044-0
• Oren Ginzburg: There You Go! ISBN 974-92863-0-8
• Mohandas Gandhi: Hind Swaraj (1909)
• Ivan Illich: Tools for Conviviality (1973)
• Post-Development Reader[1] (Zed Books, ed. Majid Rahnema, 1997), ISBN 1-85649-474-8
• No Place of Grace: antimodernism and the transformation of American culture 1880-1920, 1994, ISBN 0-226-46970-0
• Henry Thoreau: Walden (1854)
• Theodore Kaczynski: Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
• Singh, S. (2007). Deconstructing gender and development paradigm for identities of women. International Journal of Social Welfare, 16(2), 100-109.: [2]

External links

• Compost modernity
• Dr. Wolfgang Sachs / Sustainable Globalisation
• Stafford Beer World in Torment
• Antimodernism by Arthur Versluis