In his article, Escobar provides the view on post-development as a shift of development away from "under Western eyes" or to focus on the vernacular cultures rather than the knowledge of so-called development "experts.... One romanticizes the traditional culture, based on a complete rejection of modernity while the other is more skeptical of these same topics, employing a more constructivist view on culture. ... They particularly point out the success stories of the cooperative culture in Spain and the social/solidarity economy movements in Quebec to highlight post-development t...

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