Development's Denial of Social Justice

• Tác giả: Peter Blunt
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 261.83 Social problems and services
• Thông tin xuất bản: Taylor and Francis, 2013
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 309822
• Chủ đề: 1. development; 2. normal science; 3. social justice; 4. state capitalism

Tóm tắt

 Resistance to criticism in the field of development has prevented systemic change and has led to a denial of social justice. This has been a function of the language of development
  establishment control over forms of critical discourse
  selective crises reportage
  and normal scientific behavior. Following Popper (1970), these defenses should be lowered so that bold alternative conjectures concerning social injustice can be set against prevailing orthodoxies. The work of Arundhati Roy is used to help make this case, and it is suggested that the search for alternatives needs to extend beyond the architects and agents of the neoliberal paradigm.