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The “development” of “underdeveloped” regions has given rise not only to a huge apparatus of experts and administrators but also to semantic confusion. The latter can only be disentangled if we take into account the critical and linguistic turn in development studies pioneered by the Post-development School.
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Ziai, A. (2019). Development. In: Paul, H. (eds) Critical Terms in Futures Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28987-4_14
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