Post‐modern International De‐velopment: Intervelopment and Global Interbeing

Abstract

Outlines a post‐modern approach to international and global development conceived during a visit to Ghana in the autumn of 1992. First offers a critique of modern development′s techno‐bureaucratic, unsustainable over‐consumption ethos and its accompanying practices of Western expert imperialism. With the conception of post‐modern de‐velopment, intervelopment, infuses the ailing sustainable development paradigm with an affirmative radical humanist and relationally interconnected manifesto. Envisages a new synthesis between sustainable development and the practice of intervelopment: global interbeing – a way of experiencing an emancipated, harmonious, economically equitable, and culturally diverse world. Discusses the impact of intervelopment and global interbeing on the life and work of organization and international development practitioners.

Citation

Bailey, D., Héon, F. and Steingard, D. (1993), "Post‐modern International De‐velopment: Intervelopment and Global Interbeing", Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 6 No. 3, pp. 43-63. https://doi.org/10.1108/09534819310042623