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Avoiding responsibility [[electronic resource] ] : the politics and discourse of European development policy / / Nathalie Karagiannis



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Autore: Karagiannis Nathalie Visualizza persona
Titolo: Avoiding responsibility [[electronic resource] ] : the politics and discourse of European development policy / / Nathalie Karagiannis Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
Disciplina: 338.91/401724
Soggetto topico: Economic development
Economic assistance, European - Developing countries
Postcolonialism
Soggetto geografico: Developing countries Economic conditions
Developing countries Social conditions
European Union countries Foreign economic relations Developing countries
Developing countries Foreign economic relations European Union countries
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Europe and development revisited -- Out of America -- The failed myth of development -- The vocation of responsibility -- The passion of efficiency -- Pandora's box : giving development -- Europe's quest.
Sommario/riassunto: Post-colonial European politics have undergone profound changes. Constructing an intellectual history of European development discourse, this book brings together post-structuralist and critical approaches to understanding development. Nathalie Karagiannis analyses three key terms of European development discourse: 'responsibility', 'efficiency' and 'giving'. Situating these terms in a concrete history of European post-colonial politics, the author shows how European policy has shifted from accepting responsibility for colonialism - constructed as it is on the paternalistic model of the gift - to a more amnesiac politics in which post-colonial countries are responsible for their own fate. In this way, Karagiannis illustrates that efficiency has become the overriding goal of development, and that the relationship between 'developed' and 'developing' countries is mainly defined by considerations pertaining to market capitalism.
Titolo autorizzato: Avoiding responsibility  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-84964-222-2
1-281-75029-8
9786611750299
1-4356-6231-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910782013103321
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