| Description |
1 online resource (145 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Critical Development Studies |
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Routledge critical development studies
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The endless quest -- 1. (The absence of) development -- 2. Evolutionism and the matryoshka doll -- 3. Sisyphus and the mountain called capitalism -- 4. We are the champions -- 5. We are the world -- Conclusion: Past, ____ and future -- Index |
| Summary |
"This book provides a critical deconstruction of the human development framework promoted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990. Taking the Human Development Reports of the UNDP as its starting point for reflection, this book investigates the construction of this framework as well as its political function since the end of the Cold War. The book argues that the UNDP's discourse on development relies on essentialist philosophical, cultural and political assumptions dating back to the 19th century and concludes that these assumptions - also present in the MDGs and SDGs - impede a full grasp of the complex and multi-layered global problems of the current world. Whilst development critiques traditionally relied on liberal, Marxist or Foucauldian theoretical frameworks and focused on epistemological or political economy issues, this book draws on the post-foundational and post-structuralist work of Ernesto Laclau and Jacques Derrida and proposes an ontological and relational reading of development discourses that both complements and further develops the insights of previous critiques. This book is key reading for advanced students and researchers of Critical Development Studies, Political Science, the UN, and Sustainable Development"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
United Nations Development Programme.
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| SUBJECT |
United Nations Development Programme. fast (OCoLC)fst00529396 |
| Subject |
Sustainable development.
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Economic development.
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sustainable development.
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economic development.
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Economic development.
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Sustainable development.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
100031653X |
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9781000316537 |
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