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10/02/08
COMPREHENSIVE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AS A POTENTIAL COUNTER-HEGEMONIC
STRATEGY: Is Iran's Strategy Counter-Hegemonic?
By Dr. Mehdi S. Shariati, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics/Sociology
The questions regarding variations in social development, economic
progress, and political empowerment have produced a voluminous
literature over the past century, and because of the complexity of these
issues, much important reflection will continue well into the future.
In the early 1980s, a United Nations' Commission coined the term
"sustainable development" as a public statement regarding the
deteriorating socio-economic, political, and environmental conditions.
Since then, the use and abuse of the term has rendered it dubious and
almost irrelevant. This paper proposes Comprehensive Sustainable
Development (CSD) as a substitute in the hope that re-conceptualization
of the term would incorporate critiques of various manifestations of
capital's hegemony – its control over science and technology,
particularly in the contemporary period, by way of restricting
homegrown, national technological development. It is argued that in the
pursuit of its interests contemporary global capitalism, as a
continuation of the 19th and the 20th century colonialism/imperialism,
is resorting to the policy of imperialism through the implementation of
dependent industrialization (imported technology) rather than CSD.
full: http://www.payvand.com/news/08/oct/1022.html
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