ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses strategies for conceptualising development issues, examines the domains of problems, and explores alternative possibilities to overcome a modernist paradigm of development. The critique of development strategies based on liberal economic logic is assessed to open conceptual avenues for postdevelopment. The concepts of development are transformed in their modes of operations once they are posited in a Third World locality. The poststructuralist critique of development provides a basis for the emergence of postdevelopment as a heuristic device for opening possibilities for new perceptions. Communal kitchens, self-help organisations, collective household structures, and various types of rural and urban cooperatives represent noncapitalist ways of organising production. Noncapitalism and local culture can be reasserted against the dominance of space, capital, and modernity that are central to the globalisation discourse. The existence of social, cultural and economic differences can be discovered by an anti-essentialist critique of capitalism.
