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Postcolonialism and development: new dialogues?

Postcolonialism and development: new dialogues? At the outset, it needs to be said that the two editors of this special issue, although both geographers, come from very different conceptual and theoretical backgrounds. Almost by accident, we started working together about six years ago on some joint research on Bedouin livelihoods in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, near the Sudan border, along with colleagues from South Valley University in Aswan. John Briggs has worked in Africa for over 25 years, focusing on development theory and praxis, and hence has become imbued with the debates and frustrations associated with the (contested) field of development studies over that period. A major part of the frustration is that after several decades of development theorization and development practice, most Africans are no better off now in real terms than they were in 1960, and, in some instances, are significantly worse off. Jo Sharp, on the other hand, has come to these issues from a postcolonial theoretical background, and hence is imbued with in‐built suspicions about the ‘development project’. Indeed, her postcolonial background leads to a concern about, even an offence at, the arrogance of the dominating universalizing discourse of the West, and particularly the extent to which it http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Geographical Journal Wiley

Postcolonialism and development: new dialogues?

SHARP, JOANNE; BRIGGS, JOHN
The Geographical Journal , Volume 172 (1) – Mar 1, 2006
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© 2006 The Royal Geographical Society
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0016-7398
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At the outset, it needs to be said that the two editors of this special issue, although both geographers, come from very different conceptual and theoretical backgrounds. Almost by accident, we started working together about six years ago on some joint research on Bedouin livelihoods in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, near the Sudan border, along with colleagues from South Valley University in Aswan. John Briggs has worked in Africa for over 25 years, focusing on development theory and praxis, and hence has become imbued with the debates and frustrations associated with the (contested) field of development studies over that period. A major part of the frustration is that after several decades of development theorization and development practice, most Africans are no better off now in real terms than they were in 1960, and, in some instances, are significantly worse off. Jo Sharp, on the other hand, has come to these issues from a postcolonial theoretical background, and hence is imbued with in‐built suspicions about the ‘development project’. Indeed, her postcolonial background leads to a concern about, even an offence at, the arrogance of the dominating universalizing discourse of the West, and particularly the extent to which it

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