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Crip Notes on the Idea of Development

Crip Notes on the Idea of Development GUEST EDITORS' INTRODUCTION Katerina Kolaova and M. Katharina Wiedlack ´r ´ `The undying myth of development, that it will remove all poverty forever from all corners of the world, now lies shattered. It is surprising that so many people believed it for so many years with such admirable innocence. . .' (Ashis Nandy qtd in Mignolo 2011: 303; emphasis added). We open this introduction with Nandy's words because they form a fitting preface to the questions that we raise in this issue: Why do we get hooked on the promise of development? What affective investments keep us attached to it? And, given the focus of this special issue, how does the optimism of the ideology of development betray the very people who, in theory, are supposed to benefit from it? But Nandy's words also foreground another problematic form of optimism: the hope that the myth of development has been shattered and dismantled. The contributions to this Cripping Development issue call this into question. They make very clear that the idea of development has retained its political and economic salience. It continues to inform imaginings of the future, a `good life', and humanity. The development fantasy continues to colonise http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Somatechnics Edinburgh University Press

Crip Notes on the Idea of Development

Kolářová, Kateřina; Wiedlack, M. Katharina
Somatechnics , Volume 6 (2): 125 – Sep 1, 2016
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Edinburgh University Press
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© Kateřina Kolářová and M. Katharina Wiedlack
Subject
Guest Editors' Introduction; Film, Media and Cultural Studies
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2044-0138
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2044-0146
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10.3366/soma.2016.0187
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GUEST EDITORS' INTRODUCTION Katerina Kolaova and M. Katharina Wiedlack ´r ´ `The undying myth of development, that it will remove all poverty forever from all corners of the world, now lies shattered. It is surprising that so many people believed it for so many years with such admirable innocence. . .' (Ashis Nandy qtd in Mignolo 2011: 303; emphasis added). We open this introduction with Nandy's words because they form a fitting preface to the questions that we raise in this issue: Why do we get hooked on the promise of development? What affective investments keep us attached to it? And, given the focus of this special issue, how does the optimism of the ideology of development betray the very people who, in theory, are supposed to benefit from it? But Nandy's words also foreground another problematic form of optimism: the hope that the myth of development has been shattered and dismantled. The contributions to this Cripping Development issue call this into question. They make very clear that the idea of development has retained its political and economic salience. It continues to inform imaginings of the future, a `good life', and humanity. The development fantasy continues to colonise

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