Development discourse has created an extremely efficient apparatus for producing knowledge about, the exercise of power, over the third world Flashcards
With whom do you need to agree in the introduction?
Power 2003, Apter 1987
What does development obscure?
Its neoliberal paradigm
What must one start by doing?
historicising development
Who wrongly argues that development is a post-war paradigm?
Schuurman 2000
In what year does Escobar argue that development is the final piece in the completion of colonialism?
Escobar 1995
What is it in the interests of the global north to do?
Create a totalising perspective
What are three examples of enlightenment ideas ?
Eurocrntricism, growth and reverence for positivist science
What is problematic with applying the idea of hegemony>
Because the dominated are not necessarily complicit in their domination
Who talks about trusteeship?
Mercer Mohan and Power 2003
Who talks about the homogenising force of the reductive repetition of Africa?
Andreasson 2005§
What about sustainable development- how can efficiency be discussed in regard to that?
Those such as Michtell 1997 argue that SD is a creatively ambiguous phrase that obscures the neoliberal paraidgm and works to keep it going
Who talks about the oxymoronic status sustainable development?
O’Riordon 1995 its oxymoronic status is only allowed to exist becase of how ambiguous it is a phrase
What could it be argued that transparency to be?
The greatest threat to the status quo
What has Escobar failed to account for
new development paradigms
Even if the practice is still, at this stage, still rather neoliberal, what has the expanded development framework done?
Changed the production of knowledge that is the core of practice
