Schuurman’s essay categorizes the main criticism faced by development studies into three major themes and critically examines each of them elucidating the flaws in the theoretical framework of the field that opened it to each of these criticisms. He refutes some aspects of the criticism and internalizes some, discussing their...

Klaus Dodds’ essay on international development efforts in the shadow of the cold war opens with the observation that words have power. The author describes how the global dynamics during the cold war came to label the different nations of the world as poor vs rich, developed vs developing etc...

Seems apt to start this blog with an old poem I wrote, on an old blog: