TY - T1 - Development : History and Power of the Concept SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/327603 T3 - A1 - Koponen, Juhani A2 - PB - Y1 - 2020 LA - eng AB - This article provides an alternative reading of the history of development by tracing how the concept of development has accumulated its present power. It starts from the premise that whatever development is, it is also a concept which is deeply ingrained in our 'Western' habitus and can inform and guide our actions. Contrary to suggestions that it was 'invented' once - at whatever date - and then spread elsewhere, I argue that it emerged gradually by being born and reborn several times in diffe... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 5203 Global Development Studies; development; history; colonialism; conceptual history; development; developmentalism; history; colonialism; conceptual history N1 - PP - ER -