TY - JOUR
KW - Developing aid
KW - Developmental policies
AU - Ziai A
AB - This paper discusses the discourse of “development” and its effects. It argues that there are
good reasons for giving up the concept of development and replacing it with various other concepts.
Practices that aim at improving the human condition need not be identified with the term
“development”. Numerous practices which have not improved the human condition have been
carried out in the name of “development”. These should not be seen as an abuse of a positive
concept, but as linked to certain Eurocentric, depoliticising, and authoritarian implications of
the concept of “development”
BT - Development in Practice
CN - ZIAI 2013
IS - 1
LA - eng
N2 - This paper discusses the discourse of “development” and its effects. It argues that there are
good reasons for giving up the concept of development and replacing it with various other concepts.
Practices that aim at improving the human condition need not be identified with the term
“development”. Numerous practices which have not improved the human condition have been
carried out in the name of “development”. These should not be seen as an abuse of a positive
concept, but as linked to certain Eurocentric, depoliticising, and authoritarian implications of
the concept of “development”
PY - 2013
EP - 123–136
T2 - Development in Practice
TI - The discourse of “development” and why the concept should be abandoned
UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09614524.2013.752792
VL - 23
ER -