Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to reconsider the discourse which has emerged in the course of development. In 1994 a workshop on ‘Development and Orientalism’ was held in Kyoto. The workshop was organized by Adachi Akira to discuss the political meaning of development discourse in relationship to colonialism, orientalism and capitalism. In this paper I would like to address points that emerged from the workshop.The vital point among them is how we should analyze the process of resistance against the discourse and the internalization of the discourse. To consider this point I would like to take as reference the process of Japan’s revival after WW II. Using the revival as the term related to development, we could get the situation of destruction and ruin which has been concealed in the course of development. In other words, development discourse presumes the destruction as the beginning which had been externalized as past and others. However I would like to appropriate the beginning theoretically in order to criticize development discourse in this paper.
