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Accepted Paper:
The idea of development: a historiographical turn?
Albert Sanghoon Park (University of Oxford)
Paper short abstract:
What is the history of international development? How has this history been portrayed? Furthermore, what are the practical consequences? This paper presents a review of historical texts to highlight a number of historical narratives since the 1980s and their ensuing controversies.
Paper long abstract:
What is the history of international development? How does the development discourse perceive its own past? Further, what are the consequences for development theory and practice?
This paper provides a review of the historiography on development thought. It highlights a number of prevailing historical narratives since the 1980s and their ensuing controversies. In particular, it considers how ways of framing development's past directly affect perceptions of its future. Thus, the history of development thought is then linked to the politics of development knowledge. A number of key historical and historiographical lessons are then derived from the review. Pointing out that history, too, is political, potential directions in development history and the history of development thought are highlighted for future work.
The history of development thought: a look in the mirror
Session 1