ABSTRACT
In the academic field, post-development was more criticised for its post-modern outlook than understood as a way to think emancipation without development. One of the arguments against post-development was that post-development is only a critique of development and has no programme for ‘after development’ (Pieterse 2000: 184). In some sense, this chapter deals with ‘after development’. Not because I think that the problem of post-development is the missing of an alternative ‘after development’, but because I think that two central elements of the so-called post-development era, namely autonomy and difference, are not thought through thoroughly enough.
