The issue of development has generally been perceived as an economic and
technical process with little or no relevance to political issues. In contrast to this
general understanding, this study aims to underline that development is a complex
and primarily a political process. In support of this argument, the study overviews
historically the changing meanings as well as ideologies of development since the
19th century with a particular focus on the Turkish case. By doing so, it attempts
to recall the idea of development primarily as a political process. In general terms,
dominant paradigms of development have also been set by power and become
leverage for political and economic dominance in history. In this sense, different
development paradigms in history need also to be understood as political
phenomena rather than simply philosophical products.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607663/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 September 2006 |
| Creators | Baysoy, Emre |
| Contributors | Bedirhanoglu, Pinar |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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