Desarrollo y anti desarrollo en el camino de otra modernidad

Abstract

This paper proposes a direct critique of development and the various stages and re-definitions through which it has evolved since its “birth” as a political proposal of the de facto modernity existing after the end of World War II. Specifically, we refer to the decisions of the “developed” countries and the international institutions concerning those whom they considered “underdeveloped”, “peripheral” or Third World. The corrent form of development has actually resulted in a model of a “civilizing” order that is in crisis, now that in most cases the so-called underdeveloped countries and even the developed ones have directly suffered the consequences of this model, which have caused the climate change phenomenon, and the energy and financial crises, without neglecting what some have called those “burden” such as poverty and, in general, the crisis of modernity itself. Finally, we refer to anti-development approaches that appear as alternatives and have been integrated into the paradigm of the “good life” .