My time volunteering in development projects in Tanzania inspired me to delve further into the logic and processes of international aid and development. The barriers which development initiatives come up against struck me to be as a result of the postmodern world we live in: globalization, technological advances, a disposable, fast changing society, a multiplicity of sources from which to develop an identity, and of which we need to have a knowledge. So do the changes in our world mean aid and development is pointless? Are developing countries ever going to catch up with the superpowers? Can a poverty stricken individual get on in this fast-paced world? Will they ever have all the tools they need to survive? Giles Bolton\u2019s inside account of why globalization and good intentions have failed the world\u2019s poor has been a useful insight. I wanted to explore Zygmunt Bauman\u2019s account of the consequences of globalization and a postmodern world for the individual and David Harvey\u2019s ideas about the loss of the particular in the universal in the world we live in. Can international development be fruitful then? Are we simply going about things the wrong way? Do we need a new approach to development accounting for the shift from our Kantian disinterested subject to the complex nature of the subject in today\u2019s society? These are the key themes for exploration in my project. KEY SOURCES: Giles Bolton: \u2018Poor Story\u2019, David Harvey: \u2018Spaces of Hope\u2019, Zygmunt Bauman: \u2018Globalization,\u2019 \u2018Liquid Life,\u2019 \u2018Wasted Lives.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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