‘People and personal projects’: a rejoinder on the challenge of teaching development studies

Abstract

In response to Juan David Parra Heredia’s criticism of her earlier article about her use of post-development as a tool in teaching development studies, Wendy Harcourt reflects further on how the course analysed in 2016 has evolved in the last three years and corrects the misreadings of the pedagogical position-taking by the teachers in the course.

Keywords:

• Post-development
• risk
• pedagogy
• development studies

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People, personal projects and the challenging of social structures: a contribution to the reflection on the challenges of teaching development studies

Notes

1. Harcourt, “Making and Unmaking of Development.”

2. Parra Heredia, “People, Personal Projects and the Challenges.”

3. Private correspondence, 14 March 2017.

4. Harding, Sciences from below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities.

5. Haraway, “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question,” 589.