Week 11: Stop development, I want to get off: Has growth gone too far?
DVST 6901: The global politics of development (Semester 2,
2026)
October 19, 2026
An independent nation in a postcolonial world can be anything it wants to be. So why on earth would you want to be like this? If the goal is wellbeing, how do we avoid the social diseases in the so-called developed world?
Main reading: Rivero (2019), intro. and chap. 6
Notes
Notes to be added later.
Keywords
degrowth
Learning outcomes
- Make connections between the history of radical critiques of development and contemporary critiques of capitalist accumulation and growth
References
Rivero, Oswaldo de. 2019. The Myth of Development: Non-Viable
Economies and the Crisis of Civilization. London: Bloomsbury
Academic & Professional. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usyd/detail.action?docID=5915282.