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Development as Power
Cards in this deck (11)
- 1Critiques of development1. The anti politics machine (James Ferguson)
2. The making of development and trusteeship (Escobar)
3.Post Development (Nandy) - 2The anti politics machine1. it does not arise from a vacuum it arises from an industry
2. legitimates certain practices and delegitimises other
3.Questioning the role of development experts - 3Representation of LesothoAboriginal, primitive, primarily agriculture, an economy that can be subject to planning, under a neutral government
- 4The aHistoricism of developmentstripping of history
- 5the depoliticisation of developmentThat Tseka projected translated all of Lesothos ills in into technical problems, that could be resolved by development
- 6Side effects of Lesotho development projectFailure of project to reach goals to improve farming and participation. However, as a result a road was built from Thaba Tseka to the capital as there was an increase in people wanting to work.... Thaba Tseka is now bette noticed by the government
- 7Instrument effectsinstitutional effect: the expansion and the entrenchment of bureaucratic state power
idealogical effect: the presentation of fundemtnally political problems as technical problems - 8Development as trusteeshipCreation of managerial strategies to govern spaces perceived as disorderly
Development as the will to improve (Murray) - 9Development as colonising discourseOrientalism: West exercised authority over orient bu imagining it in a particular way. Development is fundamentally about mapping and making
- 10Post development challenge (Nandy)Development does not work, no need for the rest of the world to catch up with the west. No one narrative for the world
- 11Critiques of post developmentEven though development can be bad, how can it be changed? erased?
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- Politics (Power) Flashcards on Development as Power, created by Magdalena Howland on 13/06/2017.
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