Publication details
Approaching the Other: The Four Projects of Western Domination
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | The book offers a critical discussion of development of European/Western theoretical approaches to non-western societies. The book, consisting of nine chapters by four authors, is integrated by the idea that western theoretical thinking about development in non-western world undertook three major shifts, separating four different intellectual "projects": (a) colonial project, (b) project of modernity, (c) project of development, and (d) project of globalization. Individual "projects" consist of unique sets of discourses but at the same time they share many common features. Chapters of the book: 1. Introduction 2. Colony, Empire and Power: Colonial Encounter and the Discourse of the Other 3. Legitimizing Empire: Critique and Advocacy for the Colonial Project 4. Shaping of Modernity in the First World 5. Shaping the Third World according to the First World Cast 6. Modernization School: IN th Tenets of the Modernity Project 7. Dependency: Critical Modern Approaches to Development 8. Limited Achievements of the Debt Relief Process 9. The Millennium Development Goals: the Currrent State of Affairs |