Exploring post-development : theory and practice, problems and perspectives / edited by Aram Ziai.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Development discourse and its critics: an introduction to post-development / Aram Ziai -- 'Post-development' as concept and social practice / Arturo Escobar -- Development: the devil we know? / Knut G. Nustad -- Post-development and the discourse-agency interface / Jon Harald Sande Lie -- On the singular name of post-development: Serge Latouche's Destruktion of development and the possibility of emancipation / Yoshihiro Nakano -- Pacific indigenous development and post-intentional realities / Susan Maiava and Trevor King -- Post-development and further: difference from 'inside' and autonomy / Luciole Sauviat -- The ambivalence of post-development: between reactionary populism and radical democracy / Aram Ziai -- What, then, should we do? Insights and experiences of a Senegalese NGO / Sally Matthews -- Surplus possibilities: post-development and community economies / J.K. Gibson-Graham -- Plachimada resistance: a post-development social movement metaphor? / K. Ravi Raman -- Comida: a narrative mirror for the universal concept of nutrition / Martina Kaller- Dietrich -- Post-development: unveiling clues for a possible future / Ana Agostino -- Development, internationalism and social movements a view from the North / Friederike Habermann and Aram Ziai -- Concluding the exploration: post-development reconsidered / Aram Ziai.