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The original critical guide to key concepts in development studies
from some of the world's most eminent critical development scholars
and practitioners. Each essay in this now classic collection
examines one key development concept, from the ‘environment’ to
‘needs’ and ‘progress’ to ‘production’. Each concept is
reviewed from a historical and anthropological point of view, with
particular bias and intellectual flaws being highlighted. Overall,
the authors argue that we must bid farewell to the whole idea of
Eurocentric development in order to liberate people’s minds in
both North and South and to mobilize for bold responses to the
environmental and ethical challenges now confronting humanity. The
result is an indispensable resource for scholars, practitioners,
movements and students of development which invites us to recognize
the tinted glasses we put on whenever we participate in the
development discourse.
The original critical guide to key concepts in development studies
from some of the world's most eminent critical development scholars
and practitioners. Each essay in this now classic collection
examines one key development concept, from the 'environment' to
'needs' and 'progress' to 'production'. Each concept is reviewed
from a historical and anthropological point of view, with
particular bias and intellectual flaws being highlighted. Overall,
the authors argue that we must bid farewell to the whole idea of
Eurocentric development in order to liberate people's minds in both
North and South and to mobilize for bold responses to the
environmental and ethical challenges now confronting humanity. The
result is an indispensable resource for scholars, practitioners,
movements and students of development which invites us to recognize
the tinted glasses we put on whenever we participate in the
development discourse.
Fruher forderten die Umweltschutzer neue gesellschaftliche Tugen-
den. Heute rufen sie nach besseren Managementstrategien. Fruher
drangten sie auf mehr Demokratie und lokale Eigenstandigkeit, doch
jetzt liebaugeln sie mit einer globalen Machtergreifung durch
Regierungen, Konzerne und die Wissenschaft. Es ist lange her, dass
sie sich fur kulturelle Vielfalt einsetzten, inzwischen sehen sie
kaum eine andere Moeglichkeit, als auf eine weltweite
Rationalisierung der Lebensstile zu bauen. Tatsachlich scheinen in
dem Masse, wie im- mer haufiger Umweltthemen auf der Tagesordnung
der internatio- nalen Politik einen wichtigen Platz einnehmen,
Teile der Umwelt- bewegung zahmer zu werden. So hat sich in den
letzten Jahren ein Diskurs uber globale Umweltpolitik eingespielt,
der Betrachtungen uber Macht, Kultur oder Moral nicht zulasst und
statt dessen die Bestrebungen einer aufsteigenden OEkokratie
verrat, die Natur (und die Menschen dazu) wohlwollender Planung zu
unterwerfen. Eine Bewegung, die einst die Menschen zur Demut
mahnte, hat parado- xerweise Experten hervorgebracht, die der
Versuchung zum Hoch- mut oft nicht widerstehen koennen.
Verschiedene Beobachter hatten verschiedene Meinungen uber die UN
-Konferenz fur Umwelt und Entwicklung (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro
1992. Einige sahen in ihr einen Erfolg, viele betrachteten sie
wenigstens als einen befriedigenden Auftakt fur eine lange Reise,
und ein paar beurteilten sie als Fehlschlag. Es macht gewiss die
Neuheit von Rio aus, dass die Regierungen der Welt zum ersten Mal
gemeinsam die Bedrohung durch die oekologische Krise ernst nahmen
und sich dazu bereit fanden, kollektive Verpflichtungen fur den
zukunftigen Kurs der Politik einzugehen.
In his cultural analysis of the motor car in Germany, Wolfgang
Sachs starts from the assumption that the automobile is more than a
means of transportation and that its history cannot be understood
merely as a triumphant march of technological innovation. Instead,
Sachs examines the history of the automobile from the late 1880s
until today for evidence on the nature of dreams and desires
embedded in modern culture. Written in a lively style and
illustrated by a wealth of cartoons, advertisements, newspaper
stories, and propaganda, this book explores the nature of Germany's
love affair with the automobile. A "history of our desires" for
speed, wealth, violence, glamour, progress, and power--as refracted
through images of the automobile--it is at once fascinating and
provocative.
Sachs recounts the development of the automobile industry and the
impact on German society of the marketing and promotion of the
motor car. As cars became more affordable and more common after
World War II, advertisers fanned the competition for status,
refining their techniques as ownership became ever more
widespread.
Sachs concludes by demonstrating that the triumphal procession of
private motorization has in fact become an intrusion. The grand
dreams once attached to the automobile have aged. Sachs appeals for
the cultivation of new dreams born of the futility of the old ones,
dreams of "a society liberated from progress," in which location,
distance, and speed are reconceived in more appropriately humane
dimensions.
The original critical guide to key concepts in development studies
from some of the world's most eminent critical development scholars
and practitioners. Each essay in this now classic collection
examines one key development concept, from the 'environment' to
'needs' and 'progress' to 'production'. Each concept is reviewed
from a historical and anthropological point of view, with
particular bias and intellectual flaws being highlighted. Overall,
the authors argue that we must bid farewell to the whole idea of
Eurocentric development in order to liberate people's minds in both
North and South and to mobilize for bold responses to the
environmental and ethical challenges now confronting humanity. The
result is an indispensable resource for scholars, practitioners,
movements and students of development which invites us to recognize
the tinted glasses we put on whenever we participate in the
development discourse.
All effects of human action will inevitably be played out within
our planet's limits; any hope of infinity is an illusion. And yet,
as Wolfgang Sachs warned almost twenty years ago, environmental
concerns have been assimilated into the rhetoric, dynamics and
power structures of development. This classic collection of
trenchant and elegant explorations addresses the crisis of the
Western world's relations with nature and social justice. Examining
the notions of efficiency, speed, globalization and development,
Sachs shows that sustainability, truly conceived, is incompatible
with the worldwide rule of economism. Planet Dialectics reveals
that the Western development model is fundamentally at odds with
both the quest for justice among the world's people and the
aspiration to reconcile humanity and nature.
'The world has enough for everyone's needs, but not enough for
everyone's greed.' Mahatma Gandhi Oil crisis, water conflicts,
declining food security - we hear one report after another about
resource scarcity - while with growing populations and huge
poverty, nations are demanding their right to development. In the
age of globalization this right cannot be disputed, yet the planet
is already exhibiting signs of acute environmental stress. Indians
want more roads and Chinese more oil: the struggle over nature will
partly shape the crises of the twenty-first century. Clashes over
resources, both major and minor, are often the unseen factor behind
chaos and violence and it is vital to start thinking about how the
distribution of resources can be made more just. This book, written
by specialists from the internationally renowned Wuppertal
Institute, provides an account of what is involved in the resource
conflicts of today and tomorrow. It puts forwards perspectives for
resource justice and outlines a global economic and environmental
policy equally committed to nature and to humanity. This new work,
rich in analysis and information, offers a compass to anyone
looking for ways in which global society might face the challenge
of the future.
Behind the public's hope of effective action by governments on
environmental issues lies a complex terrain of conceptual
confusion, conflicts of interest and philosophical dispute. This is
why some of the world's leading environmental thinkers have come
together in this volume to probe critically the new language being
developed by environmental professionals. They examine the
contradictions inherent in the fashionable notion of sustainable
development. They explore the emerging conflicts over the
distribution of environmental risks between North and South. And
they warn that 'global ecology' seen in a managerial perspective,
may degenerate into an effor to redesign and manage Nature in order
to keep economic growth going in the face of a rising tide of
resource plunder and pollution. This book seeks to launch a
critical debate in order to clarify the issues involves and what
might constitute appropriate action.
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