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Mosse
Development policy
result of social processes
(rather then a cause of them)
SGD
Policies are useful but will they
lead to meaningful actions? (Easterly, 2015)
essay idee
push for collaboration
between Global South
countries (Epac???)
Break the dependency from the GN
Empower domination of countries like China
which are the possible repercussions?
Images of african villages in adverts for Funds
compared to the real pictures of the city
Ferguson
Critical View of Development
Development is a mechanism of bureaucratic power
(not a natural, problem solving endeavor)
It extend state control and
reinforces inequalities
critiques development as a rationalizing discourse
that depoliticises social issues, masking the true effects of interventions
Key Aspects
Development is a bureaucratic expansion
rather than addressing inequalities
Depoliticization of Poverty
Development projects frame poverty as a
technical problem to address with managerial
solutions rather then seeing it as a result of
historical and political inequalities. This removes
struggle of power
Unintended consequences as Structural Effects
Bureaucratic process of development creates
new forms of governance
Machine of development
Development as anti-politics machine: a system that
works in standardised models and ignores local political
realities
Implications of his View:
Challenges the assumption that development policies are always good and neutral
Development as vehicle of power and control to benefits elites rather then attempt to address poverty
All intervention can have hidden political and social consequences that needs to be examined
Escobar
Encountering Development
Continuities between
discourse and Colonialism
Knowledge and Power: international
instutution often dictates how the Global
South should progress with no consideration
to local knowledge and historical contexts
Geopolitical Hierarchies: Reinforcement of
spatial division of the world maintaining global hierarchy.
Representation of control:
both see the non western society as
inferior and in need of western intervention
Economic Exploitation: Colonial countries and
development project still benefit economically by the
investments. This reinforce dependency rather then authonomy
Interventionist logic: Both justify external intervention in the
name of progress (religion, political reform, education, ect)
Construction of the other: other as primitive indigenous, incapable
of self ruling/ that lack initiative, knowledge and skills