Escobar: development and domination. Book Review

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Social Issues

 

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Maggie H

 

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April 21, 2015

 

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University

 

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A

 

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The book establishes a critical reading of multiple ideas and practices that have evolved, since World War II, to form what Escobar calls the development discourse. This book is continuation of an academic and political effort, started in the 1980s, to understand social constructions through discourse analysis...
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For most of these authors the problem is not so much with discourse analysis but with Escobar's actual study. This article is divided in two. In the first some of Escobar's ideas in Encountering Development are revised: (1) the claim that development is a historical construction, and can be analysed as a discourse, and that by doing so, the analysis becomes a study of domination; (2) the authors perspective against claims of truth and universal models of understanding and acting; and (3) the idea of resistance as expression of alternative discourses...
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