Development Discourse and Global History: From Colonialism to the Sustainable Development Goals

ISBN-13: 9781138735132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 244 str.

Aram Ziai

Opis

Development Discourse and Global History uses the archaeological and genealogical methods of Michel Foucault to trace the origins of development discourse back to late colonialism and notes the significant discontinuities that led to the establishment of a new discourse and its accompanying industry. This book goes on to describe the contestations, appropriations and transformations of the concept. It shows how some of the trends in development discourse since the crisis of the 1980s – the emphasis on participation and ownership, sustainable development and free markets – are incompatible with the original rules and thus lead to serious contradictions. The Eurocentric, authoritarian and depoliticizing elements in development discourse are uncovered, whilst still recognizing its progressive appropriations. The author concludes by analysing the old and new features of development discourse which can be found in the debate on Sustainable Development Goals and discussing the contribution of discourse analysis to development studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The discourse of ‘development’  Part I - Theory  2. Poststructuralism, discourse and power  Part II - Archaeology  3. From ‘civilising mission’ to ‘development’  4. An archaeology of development knowledge  5. The concept of ‘development’ and why it should be abandoned  6. Development discourse: appropriation and tactical polyvalence  Part III - Genealogy  7. The transformation of development discourse: Participation, sustainability, heterogeneity  8. From ‘development’ to ‘globalisation’  9. World Bank discourse and poverty reduction  10. ‘Development’: projects, power and a poststructuralist perspective  11. Millennium Development Goals: back to the future?  12. Justice, not development. Sen and the hegemonic framework for ameliorating global
inequality  13. Migration management as development aid? The IOM and the International Migration
and Development Initiative  14. The Post-2015-Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals: the persistence of
development discourse  Part IV - Conclusion  15. Conclusion: The contribution of discourse analysis to development studies

O autorze

Aram Ziai is a Heisenberg-Professor of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for Development and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kassel, Germany. He previously taught at the Institute for International Development (IE) at Vienna University.