and Sustainable Development Economic Justice in Africa: Globalization, the State and the Civil Society CODESRIA / OSISA Economic Justice Institute, Garden Court South Beach Hotel, 7 – 18 September, 2015 Lecture 5 Development and Sustainable Development Emmanuel O. Nuesiri (MPhil. Cambridge; DPhil. Oxford) Marie-Curie BRAIN Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Potsdam, Germany and Research Affiliate Cline Center for Democracy, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA Brandenburg Research Academy and International Network (BRAIN) Cline Center for Democracy University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Development Cambridge Dictionary Business Dictionary ‘the ​process in which someone or something ​grows or ​changes and ​becomes more ​advanced…’ …​healthy ​growth and development The ​region ​suffers from ​under-/over-development (= having too little/much ​industry) a development ​project (= one to ​help ​improve ​industry)… http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/development Business Dictionary The systematic use of scientific and technical knowledge to meet specific objectives or requirements. An extension of the theoretical or practical aspects of a concept, design, discovery, or invention. The process of economic and social transformation that is based on complex cultural and environmental factors and their interactions. The process of adding improvements to a parcel of land, such as grading, subdivisions, drainage, access, roads, utilities. http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/development.html#ixzz3lJMjYHye

Encountering Development Arturo Escobar (b. 1952 Colombia) Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Escobar argues that President Harry S. Truman ‘invented’ development as a technical and professional activity

Development Impasse of the 80’s Walt Whitman Rostow (1916 – 2003) Development theories Modernization theory Rostow’s five stages of growth Primitive stage Preparatory stage Take-off stage Maturity Mass Consumption Marxism Dependency theories (Samir Amin in Africa) World systems theory (Immanuel Wallerstein) Post-modernism Post-structuralism (Jean Baudrillard) Post-colonialism (Achille Mbembe) Relativism End of Ideological History (Francis Fukuyama) Walt Whitman Rostow (1916 – 2003) 7th US National Security Advisor 1966 - 1969 Failure to deliver prosperity for all and fall of communism led to a questioning of these structuralists theories (the development impasse crisis of the 1980’s) and to a greater appreciation of post-modernist social theories Samir Amin (b. 1931)

Nobel Prize Welfare Economics 1998 Alternatives The Washington consensus? Structural adjustment Neo-liberalism Economic globalization (GATT / WTO) Sustainable development Development as freedom (Amartya Sen) Amartya Kumar Sen (b. 1933) Nobel Prize Welfare Economics 1998

Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development (SD) Gro Harlem Brundtland (b. 1939) Sustainable development ‘seeks to meet the needs and aspirations of the present without compromising the ability to meet those of the future’ (Our Common Future, 1987, p. 43). Gro Harlem Brundtland (b. 1939) Norwegian Prime Minister 1981, 1986–89, and 1990–96; Special UN Envoy and Deputy Chair of The Elders (http://theelders.org/)

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Maurice Strong (l) and Stephan Schmidheiny (Earth Summit Rio 1992)

Today’s Logic – Ecological Modernization

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