Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on November 19, 2007
Community Development Journal 2008 43(1):97-100; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsm055
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What next? Volume 1. Setting the context. Special issue of development dialogue
Bucknell University, USA; email: milofsky@bucknell.edu
Niclas HällströmOlle NordbergRobert Österberg eds, Dag Hammarskjöld Centre, Uppsala, 2006, 223 pp. ISSN
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In 1976, the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation sponsored a symposium resulting in the publication titled What Now? Another Development that presented diverse, authoritative, critical perspectives on the ways countries, organizations, and individuals in the industrialized world could foster social and economic development in less wealthy countries, most of them in the South. The suggestions were striking for their emphasis on large development projects, encouragement of development of civil society and democratization of societies, and centralized interventions. The present volume provides a follow-up on this first effort thirty years later.
One of the most striking findings of the present volume is how misguided the earlier volume seems from the standpoint of a similar panel of experts today. What Now? was built on a model of exporting social, political, and