David,
I have the Simon article and am looking forward to reading it with
interest.
I have the read the Shrestha-Yapa debate. I like Shrestha's response
to Yapa. The materiality of social lives cannot be hidden under the
discourse carpet, although the consideration of materiality should be
only the starting point, not everything. Just a humble thought.
Raju
> From: David McKnight <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: a quote
> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:10:23 +0000 (GMT)
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> raju,
> have you looked at David Simons Society and Space (1999) on
> postmodernism and development (can forward the full ref
> when I find it if you are interested). Also an interesting
> debate between Lakshman Yapa and Nanda Shrestha in AAAG
> 1997 on Yapa's 'What Causes Poverty: A Postmodern View'
> Best,
> David.
> On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 12:41:35 GMT Raju Das
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >
> > I found the following sentence from Corbridge interesting.
> >
> > '[T]here is within postmodernism-postcolonialism a debilitating
> > tendency to mistake the word for the World' ('Marxisms,
> > Modernities ...' , Society and Space, 1993, vol 11, p. 456).
> >
> >
> > Raju
> >
> > ps I find the post-impasse debate (Booth, Kiely, Corbridge,
> > Mouzelis, Peet, etc) in develoment studies/geography very
> > interesting. It sheds light on several issues: causality;
> > agency-structure, significance of class, etc .
> > Raju J Das
> > Department of Geography
> > University of Dundee
> > Dundee DD1 4HN
> > United Kingdom
> > Phone 01382 348073 work
> > 01382 737097 home
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Raju J Das
Department of Geography
University of Dundee
Dundee DD1 4HN
United Kingdom
Phone 01382 348073 work
01382 737097 home
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