But as tensions rise, and the community closes rank to protect its own, John has to watch his back.īut far more disquieting than that, John's nightmares have taken an even more disturbing turn, and he can't be certain about the one thing he needs to know above all else. A specialist team of detectives arrives from Denmark to help the local police, who seem completely ill-equipped for an investigation of this scale.
Then the solitude is shattered by an almost unheard of crime on the islands: murder. But still, the terrifying, debilitating nightmares just won't stop. He desperately wants to make a new start, and is surprised by how quickly he is welcomed into the close-knit community. When John Callum arrives on the wild and desolate Faroe Islands, he vows to sever all ties with his previous life. Finally, an alternative, dialectical approach is suggested, which seeks to combine deconstruction with reconstruction, and which stresses the contradictory unity of development.FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RANDOM AND MURDERABILIA - John Callum is fleeing his past, but has run straight into danger. When more concrete alternatives are suggested (as for example by ecofeminism), the result is an uncritical, romantic celebration of the local which can have reactionary political implications.
But this view similarly homogenises the development discourse, and leads to an alternative politics that uncritically celebrates resistance without analysing its differing political implications. Moreover, post-development theory is reluctant to suggest concrete political alternatives, arguing the post-structuralist position that to do so implies ‘capture’ by the development discourse. Post-development theory is guilty of homogenising the idea of development, thereby conflating all theories of development with the outmoded (and long discredited) theory of modernisation. This article questions such views, by suggesting that not all theories of development can be tarred with the same brush.
Some writers argue that the idea of development therefore constitutes a new form of colonialism. Theories of post-development argue that all ideas of development imply the exercise of power over subject peoples in the so-called Third World. The most ostensibly radical response to the crisis in development theory has been to reject outright the idea of development.
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