Tripathy, Jyotirmaya; Mohapatra, Dharmabrata - In: Journal of Developing Societies 27 (2011) 2, pp. 93-118
Drawing from the insights of post-structuralism, the essay questions the ontology of underdevelopment existing prior to its representation and locates the idea of development within discourse. Since language constructs reality within a signifying system, the problem of underdevelopment is a...