Talk:Development criticism

General comments

I must say that development criticism, as explained here, has almost nothing to do with Antimodernism, as aesthetical tendency in Europe between 1890s and 1930s (Klages, Schuler, Evola, Ortega y Gasset, George, Pound, Eliot, Lawrence, Guenon, Berdjajev, Benn, Juenger). So, I think that redirection from Antimodernism to this page has to be terminated. The best online history of the term "antimodernism" I found so far is located on http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/E375L/Antimodernism.html Tomsak 10:33, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

As author of Antimodernism MSN Group, I take the opportunity to voice my total disapproval of the other external link "compost modernity" which is obviously Nietschean in inspiration and antichristian as much as antiislamic.

Toulon, 4 février 2006 Hans Georg Lundahl

I think that we need an article "development criticism" (like there is "kehityskritiikki" at fi.wikipedia.org). Antimodernism is mostly the same thing but the concept is seldom heard. Gandhi, Ivan Illich, Gustavo Esteva, Henry Thoreau etc. are among the most well known development critics --128.214.200.146 08:37, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

I have endeavoured to turn this page into a sort of non-canonical disambiguation page. The anti-modernist kerfluffle in the Roman Catholic Church surely deserved some kind of mention here. I have just been working on expanding the former stub at high modernism, which at least has references. Perhaps this might be made into a more canonical disambiguation page by moving some of the see also's there, although I am somewhat at a loss to figure what Fascism or Unabomber have to do with anything discussed there. Smerdis of Tlön 14:00, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps the Postdevelopment Theory article is a better place for this subject? --User1756 (talk) 19:13, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

I don't get it. This page has got to go– there is a 'famous development critics' section listing a number of biographical pages in which not one person is characterized as a 'development critic.' I have never seen this phrase before seeing this article. It lists no sources. No question- 'development criticism' is a neologism without bibliographic authority or theoretic relevance. Can someone please clarify why this page is still up? Ebenheaven (talk) 03:58, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

I've now incorporated the lists from this stub into the Postdevelopment Theory article. Perhaps now we can just redirect from here to there? --User1756 (talk) 15:45, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Redirect from anti-modernism

I came to this article redirected from anti-modernism, and I think there's a problem with the redirect. Anti-modernism refers to either Catholic anti-modernism, expressed in Pope Pius X's 1907 encyclical; or is used as a general term to describe reactionary responses to modernism or modernity, sometimes implying fundamentalism and fascism, but often simply conservatism. I can see why development criticism has advantages as an expression of the latter, without some of the negative connotations, but anti-modernism is surely the broader term. I know a Google count isn't definitve but here are the results: "development criticism" 1,980 hits; "anti-modernism" 40,000 hits. The "development criticism" hits for the first couple of pages were simply the words used as parts of sentences e.g game development criticism, character development criticism. Development criticism appears to be a neologism. I won't put a neologism tag or references tag on the article just yet, but the redirect from anti-modernism definitely has to go.--Ethicoaestheticist 15:21, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Bad title

This is a bad title. I have started a page called Criticisms of globalization. "Development" is not NPOV as it is a vague term. What one would consider developement another would not. Development of what is the question.--Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:33, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

A bad title maybe; badly written certainly. Perhaps it should be rewritten and merged with Postdevelopment Theory? --User1756 (talk) 19:13, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

I believe that what the exact definition of "development" might be is a part of what the subject concerns. Establishing a parallel with "criticism of globalization" doesn't make much sense in this context as that subject represents one particular face of what development criticism is. Maziotis (talk) 19:00, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

So, what exactly is development criticism? How does it differ from post-development or anti-globalisation? Where are the contested definitions? Some refs would help...--Ethicoaestheticist (talk) 00:36, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Rahnema

Somebody deleted Rahnema. He is a leading proponent of post-development. Have a look at the bibliography if you don't know the literature! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Minority2005 (talk • contribs) 18:07, 17 April 2009 (UTC)