The post-development reader Book

	Introduction
1	The Original Affluent Society	3
2	Learning from Ladakh	22
3	The Economy and Symbolic Sites of Africa	30
4	Our Responsibility to the Seventh Generation	40
5	The Spiral of the Ram's Horn: Boran Concepts of Development	51
6	The Idea of Progress	65
7	Faust, the First Developer	73
8	The Making and Unmaking of the Third World through Development	85
9	Development as Planned Poverty	94
10	Twenty-six Years Later	103
11	Development and the People's Immune System: The Story of Another Variety of AIDS	111
12	Paradoxical Growth	135
13	The Agony of the Modern State	143
14	Education as an Instrument of Cultural Defoliation: A Multi-Voice Report	152
15	Western Science and Its Destruction of Local Knowledge	161
16	Colonization of the Mind	168
17	The One and Only Way of Thinking	179
18	The New Cultural Domination by the Media	182
19	How the United Nations Promotes Development through Technical Assistance	190
20	How the Poor Develop the Rich	207
21	To Be Like Them	214
22	Development and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho	223
23	Transmigration in Indonesia: How Millions Are Uprooted	234
24	'Women in Development': A Threat to Liberation	244
25	Tehri: A Catastrophic Dam in the Himalayas	256
26	The Development Game	263
27	From Global Thinking to Local Thinking	277
28	The Need for the Home Perspective	290
29	Basta! Mexican Indians Say 'Enough!'	302
30	The Quest for Simplicity: 'My Idea of Swaraj'	306
31	The Searchers after the Simple Life	308
32	The Infrapolitics of Subordinate Groups	311
33	Alternatives from an Indian Grassroots Perspective	329
34	The Power of the Powerless: Citizens against the State in Central Eastern Europe	336
35	Protecting the Space Within	354
36	Birth of the Inclusion Society	359
37	Reinventing the Present: The Chodak Experience in Senegal	364
	Afterword: Towards Post-Development: Searching for Signposts, a New Language and New Paradigms	377
	Suggested Readings	405
	List of Boxes	430
	Index	432