1987
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Alain Bidaud, « Des concepts en voie de développement », Espace Temps, ID : 10.3406/espat.1987.4297
According to our usual thought process in EspacesTemps, we have intended to sum up the situation with experts on the Third-World from several social sciences. The diversity of the Third-World's awareness is not doubt a quite recent phenomenon. While this reality is acknowledged by everyone, the debate on the existence of universals or even the argument in favour of the existence on cultural specificities or not is much more contradictory. What stands out from thoses talks is the divergence of positions : some insist on the need of going deeper into concepts, others puzzled by the gradual downfall of great theories lay the emphasis on empirical attitudes. The confrontation of points of view leads to the conclusion that today the concept of the Third-World allows the most diversified representations and the shape of the whole world is altered by them. Interviews of : Boudhayan Chattopadhyay, Charles Condamine, Nigel Harris, Yves Lacoste, Serge Latouche, Henri Moniot, Ignacy Sachs, Milton Santos.