PART O N E THE VERNACULAR W O R L D

1 T h e O r i g i n a l Affluent Society
Marshall Sahlins

2 Learning from Ladakh

Helena Norberg-Hodge

3 T h e E c o n o m y a n d Symbolic Sites o f Africa

Hassan Zaoual

4 O u r Responsibility to t h e Seventh G e n e r a t i o n
Linda Clarkson, Vern Morrissette and Gabriel Regallet

5 T h e Spiral of the R a m s H o r n : B o r a n C o n c e p t s o f D e v e l o p m e n t
Gudrun Dahl and Gemetchu Megerssa

PART T W O THE DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM

6 T h e Idea of Progress
Teodor Shanin

7 Faust, the First D e v e l o p e r

Marshall Berman

8 T h e M a k i n g and U n m a k i n g o f t h e T h i r d W o r l d
through Development
Arturo Escobar

9 D e v e l o p m e n t as P l a n n e d Poverty
Ivan Mich

10 Twenty-six Years Later

Ivan Mich in conversation with Majid Rahnema
11 D e v e l o p m e n t and the P e o p l e s I m m u n e System:
T h e Story of A n o t h e r Variety of A I D S
Majid Rahnema

PART T H R E E THE VEHICLES OF DEVELOPMENT

12 Paradoxical G r o w t h
Serge Latouche

13 T h e A g o n y o f the M o d e r n State
Rajni Kothari

14 E d u c a t i o n as an I n s t r u m e n t of Cultural Defoliation:
A Multi-Voice R e p o r t
Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Jo-Ann Archibald,
Edouard Lizop and Majid Rahnema

15 W e s t e r n Science and Its D e s t r u c t i o n of Local K n o w l e d g e

Vandana Shiva

16 C o l o n i z a t i o n of t h e M i n d
Ashis Nandy

17 T h e O n e a n d O n l y Way of T h i n k i n g
Ignacio Ramonet

18 T h e N e w Cultural D o m i n a t i o n by t h e M e d i a
James Petras

19 H o w t h e U n i t e d N a t i o n s P r o m o t e s D e v e l o p m e n t t h r o u g h
Technical Assistance
Pierre de Senarclens

PART FOUR DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICE

20 H o w t h e P o o r D e v e l o p t h e R i c h
Susan George

21 To B e Like T h e m
Eduardo Galeano

22 D e v e l o p m e n t a n d Bureaucratic P o w e r in Lesotho
James Ferguson

23 Transmigration in Indonesia: H o w Millions Are U p r o o t e d

Graham Hancock

24 ' W o m e n in D e v e l o p m e n t ' : A T h r e a t to Liberation

Pam Simmons

25 Tehri: A Catastrophic D a m in t h e Himalayas

Peter Bunyard
 PART FIVE TOWARDS THE POST-DEVELOPMENT AGE

27 F r o m Global T h i n k i n g to Local T h i n k i n g
Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash

28 T h e N e e d for t h e H o m e Perspective
Wolfgang Sachs

29 Basta! M e x i c a n Indians S a y ' E n o u g h ! '

Gustavo Esteva

30 T h e Q u e s t for S i m p l i c i t y : ' M y Idea of Swaraj'

Mahatma Gandhi

31 T h e Searchers after the Simple Life

David E. Shi

32 T h e Infrapolitics of Subordinate G r o u p s
James C. Scott

33 Alternatives from an Indian Grassroots Perspective

D.L. Sheth

3 4 T h e P o w e r of the Powerless: Citizens against t h e State in

Central Eastern E u r o p e
Vaclav Havel

35 Protecting the Space W i t h i n

Karen Lehman

36 B i r t h of the Inclusion Society

Judith A. Snow

37 R e i n v e n t i n g t h e Present: T h e C h o d a k E x p e r i e n c e in Senegal
Emmanuel Seni N'Dione, Philippe de Leener, Jean-Pierre Perier,
Mamadou Ndiaye and Pierre Jacolin

AFTERWORD

Towards P o s t - D e v e l o p m e n t : Searching for Signposts,

a N e w Language and N e w Paradigms
Majid Rahnema

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