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Avoiding responsibility : the politics and discourse of European development policy / Nathalie Karagiannis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (195 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781849642224
  • 1849642222
  • 0745321909
  • 9780745321905
  • 9786611750299
  • 6611750290
  • 1435662318
  • 9781435662315
  • 0745321895
  • 9780745321899
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Avoiding responsibility.DDC classification:
  • 338.91/401724 22
LOC classification:
  • HD75 .K366 2004
Other classification:
  • 83.46
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Action note:
  • digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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.

English.

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