Voices from the periphery: a critique of postcolonial theories and development practice.
This paper examines the tension between development practice and postcolonial and decolonial theories. The postcolonial and decolonial critiques of development primarily criticise the Eurocentrism of the development discourse, which prevents so-called 'subalterns' from living politically self-determ...
| Published in: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 43; no. 7; pp. 1765 - 1783 |
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Jul2022
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