Reviving Critical Modernism in Development Studies 7 September 2016 Richard Heeks https://ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2016/09/07/reviving-critical-modernism-in-development-studies/ Critical modernism forms a very small, rather dated trickle of ideas within development studies. How could it be updated to serve as a lens for current research? Critical modernism can be understood as a wide sweep of ideas, particularly encompassing thinkers such as Habermas and Gramsci [1] . But it has only a small explicit footprint within development studies largely triggered by a chapter in Peet & Hartwick’s book Theories of Development , published in 1999 [2] . Itself developed from earlier work, this was particularly a response to “post-development” ideas that arose in the 1980s. Despite subsequent editions of Theories of Development , the core text on critical modernism by Peet & Hartwick remains unchanged, and the specific notion has gained little overt traction in...
Exchanging ideas about using ICT for development, especially in Africa.
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ReplyDeleteThis is my view on how we can use ICT and Modernization to develop our people and culture.