Take a look at the post-development school

Authors
1 Student of Tehran University
2 Student of Mazandaran University
Abstract
The 'post-development' school was created in development literature after World War II and in criticizing to the development process by individuals such as Ivan Illich, Arturo Escobar, Gustav Esteva, Majid Rahnema, Wolfgang Sachs and Serge Latouche. consequently, this school is a part of the history of development. Post-developmentalists see development as an ideology that exists in the northern countries and originally is the wrong answer to the true needs and aspirations of the southern world, so one must think of an alternative for it that is post-developmental.                                                                                                                                                     
The present article studies the history and explanation of this school during the post-development critiques from development, and vice versa, the development critics from post- development and considers the following as one of the most important post-development indicators: "ignoring the whole of development paradigm," Prioritizing the culture over economics" , "promoting a popular or populist (bottom-up) development approach with decentralization criteria, NGOs, empowering people "," not seeing development purely from a perspective. "Western countries" , "Making the world culturally more humane and environmentally sustainable" and "less reliant on expert knowledge (Prioritizing the views of ordinary people instead of the elites).
After introducing the post-developmental school in the final section, the relation between post-developmental and Iranian society is discussed, and it is concluded that the post-developmental school divides the world into two developed and underdeveloped sectors, with principles on each of them, While it seems that such a widespread and wide-ranging view cannot account for the fundamental differences in Third World countries and, as a result, prescribe a unified version for all of them, this is one of the main criticisms of the post-development school. In Iranian society, which has a monolithic, oil-dependent economy with a central government that is geographically raing scarce and lacks a strong private sector, basically speaking of "bottom-up" development without government intervention and assistance, Is impossible.

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Volume 8, Issue 32
Autumn 2020
Pages 85-106

  • Receive Date 08 March 2020