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Redefining Sustainable Development (Paperback)
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Redefining Sustainable Development (Paperback)
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Development and assistance in disasters is about helping people to
help themselves. It is to do with facilitating 'sustainable
livelihoods' and addressing the ills of social discrimination.
These seem to be self-evident propositions. In fact, they are a
minefield. If development workers intervene to assist in the
creation of environmentally sustainable livelihoods, what
judgemental codes are contained in the everyday cultural and
linguistic assumptions of development practitioners? What account
do they give of the environment and people's relationship to it? If
livelihoods are to be economically sustainable, by which economic
criteria is the judgement made? Is the objective to keep projects
going until the funds run out, or, like cancer patients, to survive
for five years, or to knit people into the world's trading systems?
If projects are to be sustainable, they must be socially just. By
whose justice do we judge? At present much development and disaster
relief work derives its importance solely from providing
opportunities for honing survival skills. The authors of this book
examine these questions and others in detail and argue that the
assumptions of the social-democratic world, including those of
international NGOs, are tied to the perpetuation of capitalism.
Neil Middleton and Phil O'Keefe suggest that the issue, in the face
of anarchic global financial power, is to re-think the nature of
class in a late capitalist world and to recognise indigenous NGOs
as the new political vehicles for its struggle.
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