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POSTMODERNISM & DEVELOPMENT

POSTMODERNISM & DEVELOPMENT. Presenter Pratistha Koirala. Postmodernism: Panacea, Placebo or Perversity?. Geography and development studies in 1990s Gained prominence as one of the routes for transcending the so-called theoretical ‘impasse’- 1980s.

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POSTMODERNISM & DEVELOPMENT

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  1. POSTMODERNISM & DEVELOPMENT Presenter Pratistha Koirala

  2. Postmodernism: Panacea, Placebo or Perversity? Geography and development studies in 1990s Gained prominence as one of the routes for transcending the so-called theoretical ‘impasse’- 1980s • Panacea- solution or remedy for all difficulties • Placebo- medicine prescribed for mental benefit of the patient rather than for any physical effect • Perversity- contrary to that which is accepted or expected

  3. The divergent position on the relevance of postmodernism • Lack of interest: peculiarly disparate, amorphous nature, mode of explanation of postmodernism • Due to which little exposure to these debates

  4. History • 1970s- Art, architecture and literature • Rejection by the then dominant modernist school • Charles Jencks and Vincent Scully • Gabriel Garcia Marquez & Carlos Fuentes in literature- flashbacks, forward leaps

  5. Social science: post structuralist rejection of meta theories & grand narratives; critical social theory; concern with the deconstruction of ideology and official discourses, growing cynicism- estab..orders & vested power; alienation of Northern societies; so-called ‘cultural turn’

  6. Frederic Jameson, Ed Soja – logic of late capitalism, profit accumulation: globalised production and consumption • Escobar- critique of ‘the development project’ • Colas- Argentinian society • Esteva and Prakash- regional & local level postmodernism practice as social action • Slater- geopolitical & developmental debates across North-South divide • Corbridge- relevance relative to post-colonialism

  7. Criticisms: • Poverty and fruits of modernism? • Northerm paradigm, leisured heterodoxes- irrelevant to global South

  8. Conceptual Schema • The chronological approach- literal interpretation; Fordist Assembly Line rejection by development specialists • The aesthetic approach- art, architecture & literature; elite and middle-class consumption • As intellectual practice

  9. Fruitful approach- address conflictual & divergent agendas- global South • Liberal pluralism • In one hand, fail to adhere to familiar exclusivist modes of argument; deprecating who fail to share their propositions • On the other, indistinguishable from anarchism- collective action fail due to inability to agree • Extreme relativism

  10. Conclusion • Problem: multiple use and meanings; Northern research to have global relevance; • ‘rapid modernization as development’….???? Local communities to develop in their own conceptions • “Extreme postmodernism is unduly relativist and permissive, it may preclude any social contract or action and should rightly be rejected.”

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