Making Development Political

Julia Schöneberg

doi:10.5771/9783845272887

Summary

“Development has failed”. Departing from this Post-Development claim, the book reveals how existent and perceived rules and restrictions of the global development system work in maintaining inequalities between international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) and Haitian organisations. To counter these structures, the author proposes a form of “development-as-politics”, in which local and international actors engage in selective, political interaction. Findings provide the starting point for practical alternatives that account for the voices of the subaltern and enable international NGOs to assume a role that supports rather than weakens local capacities.

Julia Schöneberg’s analysis is based on her field research in Haiti between 2012 and 2014. Her research interests include alternative approaches to development and Post-Development, social movements, racism and post-colonialism.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2016
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8487-2889-3
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-7288-7
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Entwicklungstheorie und Entwicklungspolitik
Volume: 17
Language: English
Pages: 224
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 10
1. Problem Statement and Relevance No access
2. Research Questions No access
3. Contents No access
4. Methodology and Methods of Data Interpretation No access
5. Positionality No access
1. Development: Immanent, Intentional, Indigenous No access
2. Approaching Development No access
3. The Development of Development Theory and Practice No access
4. Alternative Development: A New Paradigm? No access
5. Post-Development: Escapist Fundamental Critique of Development or Practical Starting Point for Development from Below? No access
6. Conclusions No access
1. Post-Development as a Bridging Concept between Development Theory and Postcolonialism No access
2. Searching the Foucauldian Toolbox: Knowledge, Power, Speech and Discourse No access
1. Governmental Institutions as Third-Party Donors for INGOs No access
2. NGOs as Actors in the Dispositif of Development No access
Haiti - From Pearl of the Caribbean to Burning Glass of the South No access Pages 65 - 70
1. Exploring Discourses of Partnership and Cooperation No access
2. The Work of INGOs in Haiti – Drawing on Three Cases No access
3. The INGO Discourse of "Development through Partnership" No access
4. 1. The Structures of the Dispositif – the "Republic of NGOs" No access
  2. The Rules of the Dispositif – the Ideology of Projects No access
  3. The Positions of the Dispositif – Speaker and Subjects No access
  4. Positions of Power No access
  5. Effects of Positioning No access
5. The Continuous State of Exception- Ideologies of Emergency and Intervention No access
6. Conclusions No access
1. Haitian Peasants and Peasant Organisations No access
2. Excursus: Haitian cultures of collective action No access
3. 1. OP – Objectives, Identity and Vision No access
  2. Mete Tèt Ansanm -Fomasyon Gwoupman No access
  3. Kombit No access
4. Conclusions No access
1. Case Study: American Organization for Ending Poverty (AOEP) No access
2. 1. Description and Analysis of Actors No access
  2. Positions of Speaking and Listening No access
  3. Discussing Finansman: Requirements and Restrictions No access
  4. Positions of Speaker and Subject: Locating Abigail No access
  5. Negotiating Positions: Discussing the Role of Women in OP No access
  6. Negotiating Positions: The Importance of Kredi No access
  7. The Grantee Yearly Assessment No access
3. Why OP? No access
4. Preliminary Conclusions No access
5. 1. Can the Subaltern Speak? –Subaltern Voices and Agents of Representation No access
  2. Intermediary Actors and the Concept of the "Strategic Ally" No access
  3. Exploring the Role of ODR No access
6. Realizations and Strategy Changes No access
1. Making Development Political No access
2. Within the realms of political interaction: Supporting the struggle through social justice advocacy No access
3. "What can you do to help us so that the state listens to us?" No access
4. The Kollektif Min (Mining Collective) – Struggling against Mining No access
5. Supporting Resistance- The Case of Ile-a-Vache No access
6. Building Back Government Responsiveness No access
7. Problems of Funding Social Change and Social Justice No access
8. 1. Conclusion No access
References No access Pages 211 - 224