Abstract
“Development” is an insidious word in that it often provides moral justification for aggressive neoliberal policies. When imposed from above and orchestrated by financial and corporate elites with no understanding of the real needs of ‘undeveloped’ communities, development sanctions a covert form of imperialism that relies on the world accepting the credo of free trade in primis, but also American forms of democracy, law, and governance. With the aim of questioning neoliberal orthodoxies and challenging colonial arguments (accepted as commonsense) about saving the “natives” from their backwardness, a group of scholars have joined forces in the anthology reviewed here to unravel the most typical discursive practices and the historical foundations of the rhetoric of development.
Recommended Citation
Verzella, Massimo
(2013)
"Review of The Megarhetorics of Global Development. Eds. Rebecca Dingo and J. Blake Scott. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2012, 266 pp.,"
Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization: Vol. 4
:
No.
1,
Article 7.
Available at:
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/rpcg/vol4/iss1/7