Abstract
Post-Development-inspired thinking is rooted in a critical view of modernity from a Post-Modern perspective. This field is strongly influenced by the thoughts and works of Michel Foucault. Studies in this direction have been done to analyze the concept of development to reveal the role and function of power and knowledge in the discourse of development. This article explores the topic of Post-Development, which reveals the concept of Post-Development through a review of Foucault's thought and intellectual framework and some of the initial and incorrect interpretations left out in this regard. All these analyses are carried out under the three-layered theoretical framework of Fairclough and especially the third layer of this model, which considers explanation as to the ultimate goal of the study of discourse in relation to society in the field of critical speech analysis. Scattered and weak discussions around this axis are due to the misuse of Foucault's thoughts. Therefore, in this article, we seek to expose the post-Development discourse as much as possible by using Foucault's ideas about knowledge and power, which are the source of development.
Highlights
Language is the highest tool for representing thought and ideology, which is the byproduct of society, discourse and ideology that governs society and requires critical speech analysis
Fairclough, on the other hand, recognizes the need for change in the type of attitude and methodology of language in the form of two main goals that the critical linguistic approach pursues: helping compensate for this widespread disregard for the importance of language in producing, maintaining, and changing the social relations of power, and informing people about how language plays a role in governing some over others, because awareness and knowledge is the first step towards liberation. to the vast majority of experts, the discourse of Development and Post-Development has been formed around social issues such as power, knowledge, equality, and inequality
In the above empirical way, does Foucault tries to decipher the black box of discourse by addressing politics and its implementation, but he challenges the Post-Structuralist school and the Post-Development discourse to which he owes it
Summary
Language is the highest tool for representing thought and ideology, which is the byproduct of society, discourse and ideology that governs society and requires critical speech analysis. Given how the world around us is represented in linguistic texts based on the inner interests of writers and linguistic actors, critical speech analysis provides an opportunity to carefully examine the interaction of society and language, text and context, language and power (Fairclough: 2001). This field is inspired by thinkers such as Foucault, Gramsci, Althusser, Fairclough, and Laclau & Mouffe, unlike the others who consider all discourse phenomena to be social; they consider discourse to be a part of social action as a linguistic event. Sometimes the differences between the works of Post-Development are so obvious that it is as if we are facing two different schools of thought (Ziai: 2004)
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