{"id":372616,"date":"2026-09-23T13:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T08:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=372616"},"modified":"2026-09-25T22:43:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:13:22","slug":"pub-ad-optional-daily-brief-23-september-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pub-ad-optional-daily-brief-23-september-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Pub Ad Optional Daily Brief \u2013 23 \u2013 September \u2013 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><strong>Thinker of the Day | Arturo Escobar<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Work &#8211;<\/strong> Encountering Development &#8211; The Making and Unmaking of the Third World<\/p>\n<p><strong>Views <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Escobar argued that \u201cdevelopment\u201d is not simply an economic process. It is also a discourse that defines what counts as poverty, progress, modernity and backwardness.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The Western industrial model cannot automatically be applied to every society.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Institutions such as international organisations, governments and experts classify societies as developed and underdeveloped shaping how problems and solutions are understood.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Escobar emphasised local knowledge, cultural diversity, community autonomy and alternative conceptions of well-being rather than imposing externally designed development models.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Escobar shifts the question from \u2018How can we develop the underdeveloped?\u2019 to \u2018Who defines development, and whose knowledge determines its meaning?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><strong>Keyword of the Day | Development as Discourse | Arturo Escobar<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Development as discourse means that development is not merely an objective economic process it also shapes how governments, experts and institutions define problems, classify populations and prescribe solutions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PUB AD PYQ VAULT | Day 51 | PYQ (2015)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe market-based approach to development is not compatible with the goal of social justice.\u201d Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinker of the Day | Arturo Escobar Work &#8211; Encountering Development &#8211; The Making and Unmaking of the Third World Views Escobar argued that \u201cdevelopment\u201d is not simply an economic process. It is also a discourse that defines what counts as poverty, progress, modernity and backwardness. The Western industrial model cannot automatically be applied to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pub-ad-optional-daily-brief-23-september-2026\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pub Ad Optional Daily Brief \u2013 23 \u2013 September \u2013 2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pub-ad-optional-daily-brief","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}