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</p><p><b>Postdevelopment theory</b> (also <b>post-development</b> or <b>anti-development</b> or <b>development criticism</b>) is a critique of the concept and practice of <a href="Modernization_theory" title="Modernization theory">modernization</a> and <a href="International_development" title="International development">development</a> as promoted by Western political powers in the <a href="Third_World" title="Third World">Third World</a>. Postdevelopment thought arose in the 1990s<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as a set of criticisms against development projects led by Western nations and legitimized under <a href="Development_theory" title="Development theory">development theory</a>.

</p><p>For postdevelopment theorists, "development" is an ideological concept that works to preserve the <a href="Hegemony" title="Hegemony">hegemony</a> of the <a href="Global_North_and_Global_South" title="Global North and Global South">Global North</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while increasing the dependency of the Global South.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thus, postdevelopment theory argues for "alternatives to development"<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or "bottom-up" approaches to development,<sup id="cite_ref-:1_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as determined by the peoples in the Third World.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Development_as_ideology">Development as ideology</h2></div>

<p>The postdevelopment critique holds that modern <a href="Development_theory" title="Development theory">development theory</a> is a creation of academia in tandem with an underlying political and economic ideology. The academic, political, and economic nature of development means it tends to be policy oriented, problem-driven, and therefore effective only in terms of and in relation to a particular, pre-existing social theory.

</p><p>The actual development projects thus initiated, by both governments and NGOs, are directed in accordance with this development theory. Development theory itself, however, assumes a framework already set in place by government and political culture in order to implement it. The development process is therefore <i><a href="Social_construct" title="Social construct">socially constructed</a></i>; Western interests are guiding its direction and outcome, and so development itself fundamentally reflects the pattern of Western hegemony.

</p><p>Development as an ideology and a social vision is ingrained in the ideals of modernization, which holds Western economic structure and society as a universal model for others to follow and emulate. Rooted in Western influence, the developmental discourse reflects the unequal power relations between the West and the rest of the world, whereby the Western knowledge of development, approach toward development, and conception of what development entails, as well as perceptions of progress, directs the course for the rest of the world.

</p><p>Looking back on the circumstances of this paradigm's creation within the broader context of the material changes accompanying it, the scholar <a href="Nick_Cullather" title="Nick Cullather">Nick Cullather</a> frames development as "history." He sees it as a perspective on where the world has come from and where the places in it are going—as well as a period in time. He would have it that the concepts of modernization and development fused after 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cullather notes that many historicists who study or promote development construed as history think of the entries in its unfolding through this era in term of a <i>discourse</i> of signifiers. They do this rather than focusing on it as <i>ideology</i>, which to them brings to mind ideas fixed across time. He does, however, point in his research to many scholars who do engage with the idea that it is ideology, such as Michael Latham and Michael Hunt<i>.</i><sup id="cite_ref-:2_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reviewing_development">Reviewing development</h2></div>

<p>Influenced by <a href="Ivan_Illich" title="Ivan Illich">Ivan Illich</a> and other critics of colonialism and postcolonialism, a number of postdevelopment theorists like <a href="Arturo_Escobar_(anthropologist)" title="Arturo Escobar (anthropologist)">Arturo Escobar</a> and <a href="Gustavo_Esteva" title="Gustavo Esteva">Gustavo Esteva</a> have challenged the very meaning of development. According to them, the way development is understood is rooted in the earlier colonial discourse that depicts the North as "advanced" and "progressive", and the South as "backward", "degenerate" and "primitive".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>They point out that a new way of thinking about development began in 1949 with President <a href="Harry_Truman" class="mw-redirect" title="Harry Truman">Harry Truman</a>'s declaration: "The old imperialism—exploitation for foreign profit—has no place in our plans. What we envisage is a program of development based on the concepts of democratic fair dealings."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETruman1949_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETruman1949-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While claiming that the "era of development" began at this point, postdevelopment theorists do not suggest that the concept of development was new. What <i>was</i> new was the definition of development in terms of an escape from <a href="Underdevelopment" title="Underdevelopment">underdevelopment</a>. Since the latter referred to two-thirds of the world, this meant that most societies were made to see themselves as having fallen into the undignified condition of "underdevelopment", and thus to look outside of their own cultures for salvation.

</p><p>Development, according to these critics, was now a euphemism for post-war <a href="American_hegemony" class="mw-redirect" title="American hegemony">American hegemony</a>; it was the ideals and development programs of the United States and its (Western) European allies that would form the basis of development everywhere else.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Postdevelopment_theory">Postdevelopment theory</h2></div>

<p>Postdevelopment theory arose in the 1980s and 1990s through the works of scholars like Escobar, Esteva, <a href="Majid_Rahnema" title="Majid Rahnema">Majid Rahnema</a>, <a href="Wolfgang_Sachs" title="Wolfgang Sachs">Wolfgang Sachs</a>, <a href="James_Ferguson_(anthropologist)" title="James Ferguson (anthropologist)">James Ferguson</a>, <a href="Serge_Latouche" title="Serge Latouche">Serge Latouche</a>, and <a href="Gilbert_Rist" title="Gilbert Rist">Gilbert Rist</a>. Leading members of the postdevelopment school argue that development was always unjust, never worked, and at this point has clearly failed. According to Sachs, a leading member of the postdevelopment school, "the idea of development stands like a ruin in the intellectual landscape" and "it is time to dismantle this mental structure."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESachs19921"Introduction"_by_Wolfgang_Sachs_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESachs19921"Introduction"_by_Wolfgang_Sachs-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>To cite an example of this "mental structure", development theorists point out how the concept of development has resulted in the hierarchy of developed and underdeveloped nations, where the developed nations are seen as more advanced and superior to the underdeveloped nations that are conceived of as inferior, in need of help from the developed nations, and desiring to be like the developed nations. The postdevelopment school of thought points out that the models of development are often ethnocentric (in this case Eurocentric), universalist, and based on Western models of industrialization that are unsustainable in this world of limited resources and ineffective for their ignorance of the local, cultural and historical contexts of the peoples to which they are applied. In essence, the problem postdevelopment theorists see in development and its practice is an imbalance of influence or domination by the West. Postdevelopment theorists promote more pluralism in ideas about development.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Critique_of_ethnocentrism_and_universalism">Critique of ethnocentrism and universalism</h3></div>

<p>Among the starting points and basic assumptions of postdevelopment thought is the idea that a middle-class, Western lifestyle and all that goes with it (which might include the nuclear family, mass consumption, living in suburbia and extensive private space), may neither be a realistic nor a desirable goal for the majority of the world's population. In this sense, development is seen as requiring the loss, or indeed the deliberate extermination (ethnocide) of indigenous culture<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorberg-Hodge1991_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorberg-Hodge1991-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or other psychologically and environmentally rich and rewarding modes of life. As a result, formerly satisfactory ways of life become dissatisfying because development changes people's perception of themselves.

</p><p>Rahnema cites <a href="Helena_Norberg-Hodge" title="Helena Norberg-Hodge">Helena Norberg-Hodge</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBunyard19843_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBunyard19843-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "To take an example, Helena Norberg-Hodge mentions how the notion of poverty hardly existed in <a href="Ladakh" title="Ladakh">Ladakh</a> when she visited that country for the first time in 1975. Today she says, it has become part of the language. When visiting an outlying village some eight years ago, Helena asked a young Ladakhi where were the poorest houses. 'We have no poor houses in our village,' was the proud reply. Recently Helena saw the same Ladakhi talking to an American tourist and overheard him say, 'if only you could do something for us, we are so poor.<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESachs1992161"Poverty"_by_Majid_Rahnema_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESachs1992161"Poverty"_by_Majid_Rahnema-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Development is seen as a set of interventions and worldviews which are also powers: to intervene, to transform and to rule. Postdevelopment critiques challenge the notion of a single path to development and demand acknowledgment of diversity of cultural perspectives and priorities.

</p><p>For example, postdevelopment theorists argue that the politics of defining and satisfying <a href="Needs" class="mw-redirect" title="Needs">needs</a> is a crucial dimension of development thought, deeply entwined in the concept of <a href="Agency_(sociology)" title="Agency (sociology)">agency</a>. Yet, questions of who voices development concerns, what power relations are played out among agents, and how the interests of socially-constructed development experts (e.g., the <a href="World_Bank" class="mw-redirect" title="World Bank">World Bank</a>, IMF officials) rule the development priorities are not often addressed in classical development thought. The postdevelopment approach attempts to overcome this gap by opening up academic, practical, and other spaces for non-Western peoples and their concerns.

</p><p>Postdevelopment theory is a critique of the standard assumptions about who possesses the key to progress and how it may be implemented.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alternatives_to_development">Alternatives to development</h3></div>

<p>While the postdevelopment school provides a plethora of development critiques, it also considers alternative methods for bringing about positive change. The postdevelopment school proposes a particular vision of society removed from the discourse of development, modernity, politics, cultural and economic influences from the West, and market oriented and centralized authoritarian societies.

</p><p>In his works, Escobar has outlined the common features of postdevelopment thought and societal vision. According to him, the postdevelopment school of thought is interested (in terms of searching for an alternative to development) in "local culture and knowledge; a critical stance toward established scientific discourses; and the defense and promotion of localized, pluralistic <a href="Grassroots" title="Grassroots">grassroots</a> movements". Grassroots movements, Escobar argues, are "local, pluralistic, and distrust organized politics and development establishment".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEEscobar2018"[httpsreaddukeupressedubooksbookchapter-pdf6802589780822371816-ixpdf_Preface_and_Acknowledgements]"_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEscobar2018"[httpsreaddukeupressedubooksbookchapter-pdf6802589780822371816-ixpdf_Preface_and_Acknowledgements]"-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Postdevelopment thought takes inspiration from vernacular societies, the informal sector and frugal rather than materialistic lifestyles. Furthermore, postdevelopment theorists advocate for structural changes. According to Escobar, postdevelopmental thinking believes that the economy must be based around solidarity and reciprocity; policy must focus on direct democracy; and knowledge systems should be traditional, or at least a hybrid of modern and traditional knowledge. Decolonial programmatics include <a href="ALBA" title="ALBA">ALBA</a>: The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAl-Kassimi2018_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAl-Kassimi2018-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> initiated by <a href="Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel Castro</a> and <a href="Hugo_Chavez" class="mw-redirect" title="Hugo Chavez">Hugo Chavez</a> in 2004 in response to neoliberal development projects such as <a href="FTAA" class="mw-redirect" title="FTAA">FTAA</a> and <a href="NAFTA" class="mw-redirect" title="NAFTA">NAFTA</a>. ALBA is analyzed and conceptualized using concepts elaborated by decolonial scholars of the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. According to Al-Kassimi,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAl-Kassimi2018_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAl-Kassimi2018-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as a <a href="Decolonial" class="mw-redirect" title="Decolonial">decolonial</a> <a href="Delinking" class="mw-redirect" title="Delinking">delinking</a> performance, ALBA proposes an alternative to development project that embodies the spirit of Bandung and principles of South-South cooperation thereby contesting the <i>a priori</i> belief that only (Western) knowledge systems informing modernity and civilization lead to economic and social development.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAl-Kassimi2018_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAl-Kassimi2018-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>In a recent survey from 2019, <i>Postdevelopment in practice</i>, Elise Klein and Carlos Eduardo Morreo claim that "the practice of postdevelopment is already being carried out by actors in and out of development".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKleinMorreo2019"Introduction"_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKleinMorreo2019"Introduction"-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In their book, they try to show how "postdevelopment in practice begins with the insistence that an enduring diversity of socialities, a multiplicity of southern knowledges and nature/culture assemblages, and postcolonial political economies reveals already existing alternatives".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKleinMorreo2019"Postdevelopment_in_Practice"_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKleinMorreo2019"Postdevelopment_in_Practice"-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="James_Ferguson">James Ferguson</h3></div>

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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="James_Ferguson_(anthropologist)" title="James Ferguson (anthropologist)">James Ferguson (anthropologist)</a></div>

<p>One of the leading anti-development writers, James Ferguson, contributed to what John Rapley termed "the most important of the opening salvos" of postdevelopment theory with his book <i>The Anti-Politics Machine: Development, Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho</i>. In <i>The Anti-Politics Machine</i> Ferguson describes the failure of the development project to properly understand the cultural and economic values of the people of Lesotho. This misunderstanding led to misappropriation of resources by the international community and myriad negative consequences for Basotho (residents of Lesotho), prompting Ferguson to comment that "Capitalist interests [...] can only operate through a set of social and cultural structures so complex that the outcome may be only a baroque and unrecognizable transformation of the original intention."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFerguson1994_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFerguson1994-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Development projects cannot simply create a desired result, but instead have a number of unexpected consequences.

</p><p>Ferguson suggests that although development projects often end in failure, they still produce tangible impacts in the physical and social-political environment. In <i>The Anti-Politics Machine</i>, he asks, "What do aid programs do besides fail to help poor people?"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFerguson1994_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFerguson1994-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the case of Lesotho, Ferguson proposes that, "while the project did not transform livestock-keeping it did build a road to link to Thaba-Tsea more strongly with the capital."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFerguson1994_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFerguson1994-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ferguson argues that there is value to understanding and thinking about the <a href="Unintended_consequences" title="Unintended consequences">unintended consequences</a> for an environment.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Escobar">Escobar</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="Arturo_Escobar_(anthropologist)" title="Arturo Escobar (anthropologist)">Arturo Escobar (anthropologist)</a></div>

<p>Critics of development do not deny the need for change. They argue instead that to enact proper and effective change, change itself must first be conceived in different terms. Escobar, another leading member of the post development school, argues:

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<blockquote><p>While social change has probably always been part of the human experience, it was only within the European modernity that 'society', i.e. the whole way of life of a people, was open to empirical analysis and made the subject of planned change. And while communities in the Third World may find that there is a need for some sort of organised or directed change—in part to reverse the damage done by development—this undoubtedly will not take the form of 'designing life' or social engineering. In this long run, this means that categories and meanings have to be redefined; through their innovative political practice, new social movements of various kinds are already embarked on this process of redefining the social, and knowledge itself.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESachs1992185_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESachs1992185-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rahnema">Rahnema</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="Majid_Rahnema" title="Majid Rahnema">Majid Rahnema</a></div>

<p>Rahnema addresses the question of which path to take directly in his conclusion to the <i>Post-Development Reader</i>. Rahnema admits that it may be true that a large majority of people, whose lives are in fact difficult, do want change. But the answer he suggests is not development but the "end of development". He says that the end of development is not "An end to the search for new possibilities of change, for a relational world of friendship, or for genuine processes of regeneration able to give birth to new forms of solidarity". Rather, Rahnema argues, the "inhumane and the ultimately destructive approach to change is over. It should resemble a call to the 'good people' everywhere to think and work together."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERahnema1997391_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERahnema1997391-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Latouche">Latouche</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="Serge_Latouche" title="Serge Latouche">Serge Latouche</a></div>

<p>Latouche is a <a href="French_people" title="French people">French</a> <a href="Emeritus" title="Emeritus">emeritus</a> <a href="Professor" title="Professor">professor</a> in economy at the <a href="University_of_Paris-Sud" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Paris-Sud">University of Paris-Sud</a>. A specialist in North-South economic and cultural relations, and in social sciences epistemology, he has developed a critical theory towards economic orthodoxy. He denounces <a href="Economism" title="Economism">economism</a>, <a href="Utilitarianism" title="Utilitarianism">utilitarianism</a> in social sciences, <a href="Consumerism" title="Consumerism">consumer society</a> and the notion of <a href="Sustainable_development" title="Sustainable development">sustainable development</a>. He particularly criticizes the notions of <a href="Economic_efficiency" title="Economic efficiency">economic efficiency</a> and <a href="Economic_rationalism" title="Economic rationalism">economic rationalism</a>. He is one of the thinkers and most renowned partisans of the <a href="Degrowth" title="Degrowth">degrowth theory</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Latouche has also published in the <i><a href="Mouvement_Anti-Utilitariste_dans_les_Sciences_Sociales" title="Mouvement Anti-Utilitariste dans les Sciences Sociales">Revue de Mauss</a></i>, a French anti-utilitarian journal.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sachs_and_The_Development_Dictionary">Sachs and <i>The Development Dictionary</i></h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="Wolfgang_Sachs" title="Wolfgang Sachs">Wolfgang Sachs</a></div>

<p>Sachs is a leading writer in postdevelopment thought. Most of his writing is focused on environmentally sustainable development and the idea that past notions of development are naturally unsustainable practices on our finite planet. However, in 1992 he co-authored and edited <i>The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power</i> which contributed greatly to the compilation of postdevelopment literature as a general theory.

</p><p>This manifesto posits that the new era of development that emerged in the 1950s was created by the United States in order to secure its new hegemonic position in the global community. Sachs explains that the concept of "underdevelopment" was actually constructed in <a href="Harry_S._Truman's_1949_inaugural_address" title="Harry S. Truman's 1949 inaugural address">Harry S. Truman's 1949 inaugural address</a>, which popularized the term. Sachs argues that the creation of this term was a discrete, strategic move to secure American hegemony by reinforcing the idea that the United States is at the top, and other countries on a lower pillar, of a linear and singular trajectory of development. It created a homogeneous identity for these countries and stripped them of their own diverse characteristics. "It converts participation into a manipulative trick to involve people in struggles for getting what the powerful want to impose on them."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESachs1992_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESachs1992-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p><i>The Development Dictionary</i> describes a biological metaphor for development. This biological metaphor was transferred to the social sphere and perpetuated the ideal that there is one natural way to develop into the perfect form. To develop in a manner disparate from the "natural order of things" was to become a disfigured anomaly. This definition held the potential to provide morally ambiguous justification for imperialist behavior and can be connected to colonial discourse and mainstream development theories. Under such categorization, Sachs explains, development was reduced to a simple measurement of the economic growth of per capita production.

</p><p>Sachs issues a cry for public awareness of the "limits of development". He leaves the reader with the idea of the "New Commons" and posits that men and women should begin with this awareness before attempting to introduce new political policies with room for creativity and innovation in diverse development paths.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticisms">Criticisms</h2></div>

<p>There is a large body of works which are critical of postdevelopment theory and its proponents. It has been noted that postdevelopment theory sees all development as imposed upon the developing world by the West. This dualist perspective of development may be unrealistic, and Marc Edelman notes that a large proportion of development has risen from, rather than been imposed upon, the developing world.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEEdelman1999_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEdelman1999-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Citing Jonathan Crush's point that "Development, for all its power to speak and to control the terms of speaking, has never been impervious to challenge and resistance, nor, in response, to reformulation and change."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECrush19958_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECrush19958-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ray Kiely argues that "The post-development idea is thus part of a long history within the development discourse."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKiely1999_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKiely1999-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In short, Kiely argues that postdevelopment theory is merely the latest version of a set of criticisms that have long been evident within writing and thought in the field of development. Development has always been about choices, Kiely explains. Choices with resulting losers and winners, dilemmas and destruction, as well as creative possibility.

</p><p>Nevertheless, discussing the project of <i>Postdevelopment in Practice</i>, Kelly Dombrowski notes "that postdevelopment scholars have consistently shown how development’s models of progress normalize individuals over collectives and capitalist economies over other forms of economy. They also note how postdevelopment scholars have identified powerful Eurocentric discourses in development that privilege Western expertise and systematically overlook and devalue traditional knowledges and social systems".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDombrowski2024"Caring_for_Life:_A_Postdevelopment_Politics_of_Infant_Hygiene"_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDombrowski2024"Caring_for_Life:_A_Postdevelopment_Politics_of_Infant_Hygiene"-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Still, critics also argue that postdevelopment perpetuates cultural relativism: the idea that cultural beliefs and practices can be judged only by those who practice them. By accepting all cultural behaviors and beliefs as valid and rejecting a universal standard for living and understanding life, critics of postdevelopment argue, postdevelopment represents the opposite extreme of universalism, extreme relativism. Such a relativist extreme, rather than besting extreme universalism, has equally dangerous implications. John Rapley points out that "rejection of essentialism rests itself on an essentialist claim – namely, that all truth is constructed and arbitrary[...]"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERapley2004_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERapley2004-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Kiely also argues that by rejecting a top-down, centralized approach to development and promoting development through local means, postdevelopment thought perpetuates neo-liberal ideals. Kiely remarks that "The argument — upheld by <a href="Dependency_theory" title="Dependency theory">dependency</a> and post-development theory — that the <a href="First_World" title="First World">First World</a> needs the <a href="Third_World" title="Third World">Third World</a>, and vice versa, rehearses neo-liberal assumptions that the world is an equal playing field in which all nation states have the capacity to compete equally[...]"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKiely1994_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKiely1994-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In other words, making locals responsible for their own predicament, postdevelopment unintentionally agrees with neo-liberalist ideology that favors decentralized projects and ignores the possibility of assisting impoverished demographics, instead making the fallacious assumption that such demographics must succeed on their own initiative alone. Kiely notes that not all grassroots movements are progressive. Postdevelopment is seen to empower anti-modern fundamentalists and traditionalists, who may hold non-progressive and oppressive values.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKiely1999_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKiely1999-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_development_critics">Notable development critics</h2></div>

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<ul><li><a href="Edward_Abbey" title="Edward Abbey">Edward Abbey</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Africa" title="John Africa">John Africa</a></li>

<li><a href="Stafford_Beer" title="Stafford Beer">Stafford Beer</a> (<a href="Viable_system_model" title="Viable system model">viable system model</a>)</li>

<li><a href="Charles_A._Coulombe" title="Charles A. Coulombe">Charles A. Coulombe</a></li>

<li><a href="Stanley_Diamond" title="Stanley Diamond">Stanley Diamond</a></li>

<li><a href="Jacques_Ellul" title="Jacques Ellul">Jacques Ellul</a></li>

<li><a href="Arturo_Escobar_(anthropologist)" title="Arturo Escobar (anthropologist)">Arturo Escobar (anthropologist)</a></li>

<li><a href="Gustavo_Esteva" title="Gustavo Esteva">Gustavo Esteva</a></li>

<li><a href="James_Ferguson_(anthropologist)" title="James Ferguson (anthropologist)">James Ferguson (anthropologist)</a></li>

<li><a href="Masanobu_Fukuoka" title="Masanobu Fukuoka">Masanobu Fukuoka</a></li>

<li><a href="Mohandas_Gandhi" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohandas Gandhi">Mohandas Gandhi</a></li>

<li><a href="Edward_Goldsmith" title="Edward Goldsmith">Edward Goldsmith</a></li>

<li><a href="David_Graeber" title="David Graeber">David Graeber</a></li>

<li><a href="Ren%C3%A9_Gu%C3%A9non" title="René Guénon">René Guénon</a></li>

<li><a href="Martin_Heidegger" title="Martin Heidegger">Martin Heidegger</a></li>

<li><a href="Ivan_Illich" title="Ivan Illich">Ivan Illich</a></li>

<li><a href="Derrick_Jensen_(activist)" title="Derrick Jensen (activist)">Derrick Jensen</a></li>

<li><a href="Theodore_Kaczynski" class="mw-redirect" title="Theodore Kaczynski">Theodore Kaczynski</a></li>

<li><a href="Ruhollah_Khomeini" title="Ruhollah Khomeini">Ruhollah Khomeini</a></li>

<li><a href="Philip_Larkin" title="Philip Larkin">Philip Larkin</a></li>

<li><a href="Pentti_Linkola" title="Pentti Linkola">Pentti Linkola</a></li>

<li><a href="Maria_Mies" title="Maria Mies">Maria Mies</a></li>

<li><a href="MOVE_(Philadelphia_organization)" title="MOVE (Philadelphia organization)">MOVE</a> organization</li>

<li><a href="Fran%C3%A7ois_Partant" title="François Partant">François Partant</a></li>

<li><a href="Fredy_Perlman" title="Fredy Perlman">Fredy Perlman</a></li>

<li><a href="Daniel_Quinn" title="Daniel Quinn">Daniel Quinn</a></li>

<li><a href="Majid_Rahnema" title="Majid Rahnema">Majid Rahnema</a></li>

<li><a href="Gilbert_Rist" title="Gilbert Rist">Gilbert Rist</a></li>

<li><a href="Vandana_Shiva" title="Vandana Shiva">Vandana Shiva</a></li>

<li><a href="Henry_David_Thoreau" title="Henry David Thoreau">Henry David Thoreau</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Zerzan" title="John Zerzan">John Zerzan</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Alter-globalization" title="Alter-globalization">Alter-globalization</a></li>

<li><a href="Anarcho-primitivism" title="Anarcho-primitivism">Anarcho-primitivism</a></li>

<li><a href="Critical_theory" title="Critical theory">Critical theory</a></li>

<li><a href="Critique_of_technology" class="mw-redirect" title="Critique of technology">Critique of technology</a></li>

<li><a href="Deep_ecology" title="Deep ecology">Deep ecology</a></li>

<li><a href="Degrowth" title="Degrowth">Degrowth</a></li>

<li><a href="Eco-anarchism" class="mw-redirect" title="Eco-anarchism">Eco-anarchism</a></li>

<li><a href="Eco-feminism" class="mw-redirect" title="Eco-feminism">Eco-feminism</a></li>

<li><a href="High_modernism" title="High modernism">High modernism</a></li>

<li><a href="Human_history" title="Human history">Human history</a></li>

<li><a href="Industrialization" class="mw-redirect" title="Industrialization">Industrialization</a></li>

<li><a href="Modernization" class="mw-redirect" title="Modernization">Modernization</a></li>

<li><a href="Myth_of_progress" class="mw-redirect" title="Myth of progress">Myth of progress</a></li>

<li><a href="Neo-Luddism" title="Neo-Luddism">Neo-Luddism</a></li>

<li><a href="Neotribalism" title="Neotribalism">Neotribalism</a></li>

<li><a href="Paradigm_shift" title="Paradigm shift">Paradigm shift</a></li>

<li><a href="Principles_of_intelligent_urbanism" title="Principles of intelligent urbanism">Principles of intelligent urbanism</a></li>

<li><a href="Traditionalist_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Traditionalist School">Radical traditionalism</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Rights_of_Nature_in_Ecuador_-_Sumak_Kawsay" class="mw-redirect" title="The Rights of Nature in Ecuador - Sumak Kawsay">The Rights of Nature in Ecuador - Sumak Kawsay</a></li>

<li><a href="Simple_living" title="Simple living">Simple living</a></li>

<li><a href="Social_criticism" title="Social criticism">Social criticism</a></li></ul>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Opposing_theories">Opposing theories</h3></div>

<ul><li><a href="Modernization_theory" title="Modernization theory">Modernization theory</a></li>

<li><a href="Neoliberalism" title="Neoliberalism">Neoliberalism</a></li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>

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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFDemaria,_FedericoKothari,_AshishSalleh,_ArielEscobar,_Arturo2023" class="citation book cs1">Demaria, Federico; Kothari, Ashish; Salleh, Ariel; Escobar, Arturo; Acosta, Alberto (2023). "Post-development: From the Critique of Development to a Pluriverse of Alternatives". In Villamayor-Tomas, Sergio; Muradian, Roldan (eds.). <i>The Barcelona School of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology: A Companion in Honour of Joan Martinez-Alier</i>. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. <span class="nowrap">59–</span>69. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-031-22566-6_6">10.1007/978-3-031-22566-6_6</a>. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-031-22566-6</bdi>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFEsteva,_GustavoEscobar,_Arturo2019" class="citation book cs1">Esteva, Gustavo; Escobar, Arturo (2019). "Post-Development @ 25: on 'being stuck' and moving forward, sideways, backward and otherwise". <i>The Development Dictionary @25</i> (1st ed.). Routledge. p. 14. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>9780429451386</bdi>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETruman1949-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETruman1949_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTruman1949">Truman 1949</a>.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESachs19921"Introduction"_by_Wolfgang_Sachs-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESachs19921"Introduction"_by_Wolfgang_Sachs_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSachs1992">Sachs 1992</a>, p. 1, "Introduction" by Wolfgang Sachs.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTENorberg-Hodge1991-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorberg-Hodge1991_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFNorberg-Hodge1991">Norberg-Hodge 1991</a>.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBunyard19843-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBunyard19843_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBunyard1984">Bunyard 1984</a>, p. 3, cited in <a href="#CITEREFSachs1992">Sachs 1992</a>, p. 161</span>

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<li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESachs1992161"Poverty"_by_Majid_Rahnema-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESachs1992161"Poverty"_by_Majid_Rahnema_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSachs1992">Sachs 1992</a>, p. 161, "Poverty" by Majid Rahnema.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAl-Kassimi2018-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAl-Kassimi2018_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAl-Kassimi2018_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAl-Kassimi2018_13-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAl-Kassimi2018">Al-Kassimi 2018</a>.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEKleinMorreo2019"Introduction"-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKleinMorreo2019"Introduction"_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKleinMorreo2019">Klein & Morreo 2019</a>, "Introduction".</span>

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<li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESachs1992185-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESachs1992185_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSachs1992">Sachs 1992</a>, p. 185.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERahnema1997391-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERahnema1997391_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRahnema1997">Rahnema 1997</a>, p. 391.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121231170033/http://www.solutionslocales-lefilm.com/en/characters/serge-latouche">"Serge Latouche"</a>. <i>www.solutionslocales-lefilm.com</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.solutionslocales-lefilm.com/en/characters/serge-latouche">the original</a> on 31 December 2012.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECrush19958-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECrush19958_22-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCrush1995">Crush 1995</a>, p. 8.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEKiely1999-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKiely1999_23-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKiely1999_23-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKiely1999">Kiely 1999</a>.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERapley2004-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERapley2004_25-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRapley2004">Rapley 2004</a>.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEKiely1994-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKiely1994_26-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKiely1994">Kiely 1994</a>.</span>

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</style><div id="International_Indigenous_and_minority_rights359" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">International <a href="Indigenous_rights" title="Indigenous rights">Indigenous</a> and <a href="Minority_rights" title="Minority rights">minority rights</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Rights</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Ancestral_domain" title="Ancestral domain">Ancestral domain</a></li>

<li><a href="Free%2C_prior_and_informed_consent" title="Free, prior and informed consent">Free, prior and informed consent</a></li>

<li><a href="Indigenous_intellectual_property" title="Indigenous intellectual property">Intellectual property</a></li>

<li><a href="Indigenous_land_rights" title="Indigenous land rights">Land rights</a></li>

<li><a href="Indigenous_language" title="Indigenous language">Language</a></li>

<li><a href="Self-determination" title="Self-determination">Self-determination</a>

<ul><li><a href="Indigenous_Australian_self-determination" title="Indigenous Australian self-determination">in Australia</a></li>

<li><a href="Indigenous_self-government_in_Canada" title="Indigenous self-government in Canada">in Canada</a></li>

<li><a href="Native_American_self-determination" title="Native American self-determination">in the United States</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Traditional_knowledge" title="Traditional knowledge">Traditional knowledge</a>

<ul><li><a href="Traditional_ecological_knowledge" title="Traditional ecological knowledge">ecological</a></li>

<li><a href="Traditional_medicine" title="Traditional medicine">medical</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Treaty_rights" title="Treaty rights">Treaty rights</a>

<ul><li><a href="Indigenous_treaties_in_Australia" title="Indigenous treaties in Australia">in Australia</a></li>

<li><a href="Principles_of_the_Treaty_of_Waitangi" title="Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi">in New Zealand</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Non-governmental and<br> political organizations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Amazon_Watch" title="Amazon Watch">Amazon Watch</a></li>

<li><a href="Assembly_of_First_Nations" title="Assembly of First Nations">Assembly of First Nations</a></li>

<li><a href="Confederation_of_Indigenous_Nationalities_of_Ecuador" title="Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador">Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador</a></li>

<li><a href="Congress_of_Aboriginal_Peoples" title="Congress of Aboriginal Peoples">Congress of Aboriginal Peoples</a></li>

<li><a href="Coordinator_of_Indigenous_Organizations_of_the_Amazon_River_Basin" title="Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin">Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin</a></li>

<li><a href="Cultural_Survival" title="Cultural Survival">Cultural Survival</a></li>

<li><a href="Indigenous_Environmental_Network" title="Indigenous Environmental Network">Indigenous Environmental Network</a></li>

<li><a href="Indigenous_Peoples_Council_on_Biocolonialism" title="Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism">Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism</a></li>

<li><a href="International_Work_Group_for_Indigenous_Affairs" title="International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs">International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs</a></li>

<li><a href="National_Indigenous_Organization_of_Colombia" title="National Indigenous Organization of Colombia">National Indigenous Organization of Colombia</a></li>

<li><a href="Native_American_Rights_Fund" title="Native American Rights Fund">Native American Rights Fund</a></li>

<li><a href="Survival_International" title="Survival International">Survival International</a></li>

<li><a href="Unrepresented_Nations_and_Peoples_Organization" title="Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization">Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization</a></li>

<li><a href="Zapatista_Army_of_National_Liberation" title="Zapatista Army of National Liberation">Zapatista Army of National Liberation</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Issues</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Civilizing_mission" title="Civilizing mission">Civilizing mission</a></li>

<li><a href="Colonialism" title="Colonialism">Colonialism</a>

<ul><li><a href="Internal_colonialism" title="Internal colonialism">Internal colonialism</a></li>

<li><a href="Settler_colonialism" title="Settler colonialism">Settler colonialism</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Biopiracy" title="Biopiracy">Biopiracy</a>

<ul><li><a href="Bioprospecting" title="Bioprospecting">Bioprospecting</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Cultural_appropriation" title="Cultural appropriation">Cultural appropriation</a>

<ul><li><a href="Native_American_mascot_controversy" title="Native American mascot controversy">Sports mascots</a></li>

<li><a href="Redface" title="Redface">Redface</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Dakota_Access_Pipeline_protests" title="Dakota Access Pipeline protests">Dakota Access Pipeline protests</a></li>

<li><a href="Discovery_doctrine" title="Discovery doctrine">Discovery doctrine</a></li>

<li><a href="Fortress_conservation" title="Fortress conservation">Fortress conservation</a></li>

<li><a href="Green_grabbing" title="Green grabbing">Green grabbing</a></li>

<li><a href="Homeland" title="Homeland">Homeland</a></li>

<li><a href="Lands_inhabited_by_indigenous_peoples" class="mw-redirect" title="Lands inhabited by indigenous peoples">Lands inhabited by indigenous peoples</a>

<ul><li><a href="Bantustan" title="Bantustan">Bantustan</a></li>

<li><a href="Autonomous_okrugs_of_Russia" title="Autonomous okrugs of Russia">Autonomous okrugs</a></li>

<li><a href="Indian_reservation" title="Indian reservation">American Indian reservation</a></li>

<li><a href="Indian_colony" title="Indian colony">Indian colony</a></li>

<li><a href="Indian_reserve" title="Indian reserve">Indian reserve</a></li>

<li><a href="Rancher%C3%ADa" title="Ranchería">Ranchería</a></li>

<li><a href="Rancherie" title="Rancherie">Rancherie</a></li>

<li><a href="Republics_of_Russia" title="Republics of Russia">Russian republics</a></li>

<li><a href="Urban_Indian_reserve" title="Urban Indian reserve">Urban Indian reserve</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Manifest_destiny" title="Manifest destiny">Manifest destiny</a></li>

<li><a href="Plastic_shaman" title="Plastic shaman">Plastic shaman</a></li>

<li><a href="Legend_of_the_Rainbow_Warriors" title="Legend of the Rainbow Warriors">Rainbow Warriors</a></li>

<li><a href="Two-spirit" title="Two-spirit">Two-spirit</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Legal representation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Governmental<br>bodies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li>Aotearoa-New Zealand

<ul><li><a href="Te_Puni_K%C5%8Dkiri" title="Te Puni Kōkiri">Te Puni Kōkiri</a></li></ul></li>

<li>Brazil

<ul><li><a href="Funda%C3%A7%C3%A3o_Nacional_do_%C3%8Dndio" class="mw-redirect" title="Fundação Nacional do Índio">Fundação Nacional do Índio</a></li></ul></li>

<li>Canada

<ul><li><a href="Indigenous_and_Northern_Affairs_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada">Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada</a></li></ul></li>

<li>Mexico

<ul><li><a href="National_Institute_of_Indigenous_Peoples" title="National Institute of Indigenous Peoples">National Institute of Indigenous Peoples</a></li></ul></li>

<li>Philippines

<ul><li><a href="National_Commission_on_Indigenous_Peoples_(Philippines)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (Philippines)">National Commission on Indigenous Peoples</a></li></ul></li>

<li>Russia

<ul><li><a href="Ministry_for_the_Development_of_the_Russian_Far_East_and_Arctic" title="Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic">Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic</a></li>

<li><a href="Government_of_Bashkortostan" title="Government of Bashkortostan">Government of Bashkortostan</a></li>

<li><a href="Government_of_the_Sakha_Republic" title="Government of the Sakha Republic">Government of the Sakha Republic</a></li>

<li><a href="Government_of_Tatarstan" title="Government of Tatarstan">Government of Tatarstan</a></li></ul></li>

<li>Taiwan

<ul><li><a href="Council_of_Indigenous_Peoples" title="Council of Indigenous Peoples">Council of Indigenous Peoples</a></li></ul></li>

<li>US

<ul><li><a href="Bureau_of_Indian_Affairs" title="Bureau of Indian Affairs">Bureau of Indian Affairs</a></li></ul></li></ul>

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<ul><li>African Union

<ul><li><a href="African_Commission_on_Human_and_Peoples'_Rights" title="African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights">African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Arctic_Council" title="Arctic Council">Arctic Council</a></li>

<li>WIPO

<ul><li><a href="Intergovernmental_Committee_on_Intellectual_Property_and_Genetic_Resources%2C_Traditional_Knowledge_and_Folklore" title="Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore">Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="High_Seas_Treaty" class="mw-redirect" title="High Seas Treaty">BBNJ ABS Committee</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Indigenous-led<br>international<br>bodies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="United_Nations_Permanent_Forum_on_Indigenous_Issues" title="United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues">UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues</a></li>

<li><a href="Indigenous_Caucus" title="Indigenous Caucus">Indigenous Caucus</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Treaties and<br>Declarations of Rights</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li>1989: <a href="Indigenous_and_Tribal_Peoples_Convention%2C_1989" title="Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989">Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (ILO C169)</a></li>

<li>1992: <a href="Convention_on_Biological_Diversity" title="Convention on Biological Diversity">Convention on Biological Diversity</a></li>

<li>2007: <a href="Declaration_on_the_Rights_of_Indigenous_Peoples" title="Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples">UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)</a></li>

<li>2010: <a href="Nagoya_Protocol" title="Nagoya Protocol">Nagoya Protocol</a> on <a href="Access_and_Benefit_Sharing_Agreement" title="Access and Benefit Sharing Agreement">Fair Access and Benefit-Sharing</a></li>

<li>2018: <a href="United_Nations_Declaration_on_the_Rights_of_Peasants" title="United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants">UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants (UNDROP)</a></li>

<li>2023: <a href="High_Seas_Treaty" class="mw-redirect" title="High Seas Treaty">High Seas Treaty (BBNJ Agreement)</a></li>

<li>2024: <a href="WIPO_Treaty_on_Intellectual_Property%2C_Genetic_Resources_and_Associated_Traditional_Knowledge" title="WIPO Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge">Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge (GRATK)</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Historical cases</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Chechen%E2%80%93Russian_conflict" title="Chechen–Russian conflict">Chechen–Russian conflict</a></li>

<li><a href="Sri_Lankan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan Civil War">Sri Lankan Civil War</a></li>

<li><a href="2009_Peruvian_political_crisis" title="2009 Peruvian political crisis">2009 Peruvian political crisis</a></li>

<li><a href="Alta_controversy" title="Alta controversy">Alta controversy</a></li>

<li><a href="Chiapas_conflict" title="Chiapas conflict">Chiapas conflict</a></li>

<li><a href="Expulsion_of_the_Chagossians" title="Expulsion of the Chagossians">Expulsion of the Chagossians</a></li>

<li><a href="High_Arctic_relocation" title="High Arctic relocation">High Arctic relocation</a></li>

<li><a href="Human_rights_in_Tibet" title="Human rights in Tibet">Human rights in Tibet</a></li>

<li><a href="Indian_removal" title="Indian removal">Indian removal</a></li>

<li><a href="Little_Danes_experiment" title="Little Danes experiment">Little Danes experiment</a></li>

<li><a href="Mapuche_conflict" title="Mapuche conflict">Mapuche conflict</a></li>

<li><a href="Oka_Crisis" title="Oka Crisis">Oka Crisis</a></li>

<li>Residential schools

<ul><li><a href="Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system" title="Canadian Indian residential school system">Canada</a></li>

<li><a href="Native_schools" title="Native schools">New Zealand</a></li>

<li><a href="Department_of_Bantu_Education" title="Department of Bantu Education">South Africa</a></li>

<li><a href="American_Indian_boarding_schools" title="American Indian boarding schools">United States</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Amazon_rubber_boom" class="mw-redirect" title="Amazon rubber boom">Rubber boom</a></li>

<li><a href="De_Beers#Forceful_relocation_of_indigenous_Bushman_people_in_Botswana" title="De Beers">San controversy</a></li>

<li><a href="Stolen_Generations" title="Stolen Generations">Stolen Generations</a></li>

<li><a href="Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China" title="Persecution of Uyghurs in China">Persecution of Uyghurs in China</a></li></ul>

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