Spaces of postdevelopment

2007/06/01 by James D. Sidaway · 155 citations
Social Sciences · #Urban Planning and Governance #International Development and Aid #Water Governance and Infrastructure #Scrutiny #Postcolonialism (international relations) #Narrative #Sociology #Aesthetics #Gender studies #Political science #Philosophy #Literature #Art #Law

paper · doi:10.1177/0309132507077405

published in Progress in Human Geography 31(3), 345-361 (SAGE Publishing)

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Abstract

This paper reviews writings about postdevelopment. It argues that critical scrutiny of the contemporary reconfiguring of postcolonial sovereignties provides a productive route to rethink the geographies of development and postdevelopment. The relationship of development narratives to reconfigurations of imperialism and postcolonialism produces a complex geography of development and postdevelopment that defies neat summary, but which demands more sustained attention to the interactions of enclosure, boundaries and subjectivities.

Citations

• After post-development
• The Last Refuge of the Noble Savage? A Critical Assessment of Post-Development Theory
• The privatisation and criminalisation of public space in the geopolitics of the Great Lakes region
• Graduated Sovereignty in South-East Asia

Cited by

• Postdevelopment theory [wikipedia]