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development

ology (the study of)

evolution

progress

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]

 has often thrived more through the coherence of its internal logic than through any insight into the social situations in which it was expected to intervene.

A number of analysts, including Escobar (1995) and Ferguson (1990), have shown the discursive specificities of development, which often thrived more through the coherence of its internal logic than through any insight into the social situations in which it was expected to intervene' (Tsing 1990 (')

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