Alter-Native ‘Development’: indigenous forms of social ecology

Alberto Gomes

Third World Quarterly, 2012, vol. 33, issue 6, 1059-1073

Abstract: The goal of this article is to outline an indigenous form of social ecology offered as an alternative development model. Based on the normative system of the Orang Asli (Malaysian Aborigines), this model is characterised by various social, cultural and ecological ideas and practices undergirding the interconnected conditions of equality, sustainability and peace, which engenders a better life for all within the community. I contend that this model will provide lessons on how we might develop a normative paradigm to serve as an alternative to the current ecological and socially unsustainable mainstream and neoliberal development policy and practice, obsessed with the attainment of economic growth and greater market integration.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2012.681491

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