ABSTRACT
This chapter confronts the meanings of going ‘beyond development’. Is it merely old wine in new bottles? Or does it mark a qualitative conceptual change? If the latter, what are the circumstances that cause or condition this change, what are itineraries of planned global social change, and what may be the first stage of the future of whatever may be said to lie ‘beyond development’? One understands the growing fatigue with the old and anachronistic idea of development as comprising primarily economic change, whether centrally planned or market-driven. One also understands development as an obstacle to human freedom rather than opportunity for freedom as Amartya Sen would have it, especially in the context of the emerging economies and the dying of a Third World united against imperialism. If the concept of development has become so amorphous, should we look to a theory of contradictions and evil for an understanding of global injustices?
