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Encountering Development

is not only a problem when it failes, but also when it succeeds, because it sets the terms for how people in poor countries could live. As such, it is ontologically cultural.

ontologically cultural (i.e., by examining linguistic structure and meaning). This led him to conclude that 'development planning was not only a problem to the extent that it failed... it was a problem even when it succeeded, because it so strongly set the terms for how people in poor countries could live'.[2]

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is always already cultural since we can only know it through meaning-making practices that are inherently cultural.

On the other hand, there is a stronger epistemological claim that the environment is always already cultural since we can only know it through meaning-making practices that are inherently cultural. See Escobar 2010 for a more detailed discussion).

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