Development through Other Eyes in the Era of Globalization: Taking the Discussion Forward

Abstract

This paper, part literature review and part critique, examines neoliberalism with its triumphalist view of development, which has not changed; it remains rooted in an oppressive colonial narrative and “dialogue,” designed to disrupt economic rights and self-determination, reproduce hegemonic identities and discountenance that anything can be learned from the “Other.” Furthermore, it claimed “new” thinking to “authentic” dialogue is neither new nor equitable, its hostility to indigeneity and that defines what it means to be fully human, and the underlying injustices meet the needs of colonialism as they bottleneck reciprocity. The idea of radically changing its content with frameworks centered on assimilation, and the destruction of traditional knowledge and cultures that are incapable of reproducing “colonial post” is imperative. The paper argues that privileging ethics and reparative justice for all decenters enslavement of the mind, restores decolonized thinking that denaturalizes rendering the “Other” as a passive and docile visitor in imperialist development and creates diverse spaces for people to liberate themselves from global apartheid capitalism. Development was never really on the civilization agenda in the first place, thus the need to dismantle the hegemony of coloniality remains completely blocked from re-inscribing the right to development.