Development criticism

Development criticism refers to far-reaching criticisms of modernization and its central aspects : modern technology, industrialization, capitalism and economic globalization . A closely related, overlapping concept is anti-modernism. Often development critics see modernization as harmful for both humans and the environment.

“Development criticism” is strongly related to:

Modernism (Roman Catholicism) Theodore Kaczynski Industrialisation Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Henry David Thoreau Gilbert Rist Gustavo Esteva Maria Mies Arturo Escobar (anthropologist) Critique of technology Neotribalism Radical Traditionalism Stanley Diamond (anthropologist) High modernism Pentti Linkola Syllabus of Errors Fredy Perlman David Graeber Derrick Jensen Vandana Shiva Development studies Social criticism Daniel Quinn Ivan Illich John Zerzan Roman Catholic Church Primitivism Edward Abbey Ecofeminism Measures of national income and output Simple living Luddite Modernization Paradigm shift René Guénon Critical theory Deep ecology Martin Heidegger Anarcho-primitivism Green anarchism

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