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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Post-development theory"”.
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Poverty alleviation, development and philanthropy in contemporary South Africa
… with regards to poverty alleviation and development. This was achieved by looking at the literature around philanthropy and fieldwork. The literature helped in providing an understanding of philanthropy and the politics around it. Most of the literature that was used was internationally …
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Responding to poverty and injustice in the light of the post-development debate: insights from a Sengalese non-governmental organisation
… in one of the most prominent recent debates in development theory – that between post-development theorists and their critics – and brings to it insights drawn from the experiences of a Senegalese non-governmental organisation, Enda Graf Sahel. I begin by providing a critical discussion of the …
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Semillas de concienca | seeds of consciousness: sowing change from the Ecuadorian highlands
… "alternative" to the paradigm of international development, but this conversation has rarely included the voices of Indigenous communities at the heart of sumak kawsay's conception and practice. Engaging the central analytical lens of post-development theory and a diversity of anthropological …
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Drowning in Development Discourse: The Effects of Climate Finance and the Development Industry on Ability to Adapt to Climate Change in Kiribati
… or similar channels as conventional ODA. Many development organisations involved in implementing adaptation projects, such as the World Bank, have firmly entrenched paradigms and epistemologies about development. Yet, climate finance literature rarely either draws from previous theory and …
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Contested Subjects: The Configuration of Conjoined Twins in Contemporary World Literature and Screen Media
… insights from critical disability studies, postcolonial studies, Foucauldian scholarship and Science and Technology Studies, it attends to the variety of ways in which contemporary texts from different contexts have engaged with and reimagined historical modes of configuring conjoined twins, …
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Critical analysis to expand the job creation discourse beyond entrepreneurship
… is painted as a silver bullet for economic development and job creation. It is furthermore hailed as a panacea for emancipation and wealth creation for everyone, even and, especially, those in marginalised positions. Based on this narrative, entrepreneurship has been extended as a …
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Open Access and Closed Discourses: Constructing Open Access as a 'Development' Issue
… publications - and the 'developing world' from a postdevelopment perspective. It takes a discourse analytical approach, drawing predominantly on Michel Foucault's understanding in discourse. It aims to answer the following questions: - .Which notions of science, of development and progress, of …