2007/05/31 by Shiraz Dossa · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development #International Development and Aid #Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
paper · doi:10.1080/01436590701371595
openalex publication_date 2007/05/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
In this paper I argue that ‘development’ was not devised to ‘develop’ the South; it was invented to advance Western development and Western hegemony. What its aficionados fail to grasp is that the failure of ‘development’ is not accidental: colonial mastery of the South was necessary achieve this end. I thus spell out the political theory and ethics driving development and its links with the colonial project. I conclude that, theoretically and practically, development as usual has proved to be disastrous, notwithstanding its limited successes.