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development project. This paper crystallises two distinct discourses of working upon
the epistemological raw material of postmodernism: an exclusivist
discourse, which reinforces the chasm by isolating postmodernism, and an
inclusivist discourse, which fosters mutual engagement between modernism
and postmodernism. I contrast the trajectory of this inclusivist discourse in
development studies to the hegemony of an exclusivist discourse in geography and
find the preponderance of an inclusivist discourse to yield a higher radical
potential and produce a kind of hybrid development research that is
neither modern nor postmodern. Concluding I suggest that the relationship between
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