Forging Post Development Partnerships: Possibilities for Local and Regional Development

J.K. Gibson-Graham

A post-development approach to world-making has arisen from a critique of the idea that development, especially economic development, is yoked to capitalist growth. This approach extends the long tradition of critique that has accompanied the hegemonic rise of a mainstream development project focused on the 'problem" of less developed regions of the world. As we see it, the challenge of post-development is not to give up on development, but to imagine and practice development differently. Thus post-development thinking does not attempt to represent the world as it is, but the world as it could be.

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Gibson-Graham, J.K. 2011 "Forging Post-Development Partnerships: Possibilities for Local and Regional Development" in Pike, A., Rodriguez-Pose, A., Tomaney, J., (eds) Handbook of Local and Regional Development. London: Routledge pp. 226-236.