International Development Studies and Ethical Dilemmas in Academia

Autor:	Jorge Nef
Rok vydání:	2004
Předmět:	Hegemony Structural adjustment Field (Bourdieu) media_common.quotation_subject Environmental ethics Development Development studies Political science Development economics Convergence (relationship) Ideology Closure (psychology) International development media_common
Zdroj:	Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du développement. 25:81-100
ISSN:	2158-9100 0225-5189
DOI:	10.1080/02255189.2004.9668961
Popis:	Since its onset in the early 1960s, Development Studies (and International Development Studies) has been a field in search of a discipline, clearly subordinated to various governmental and international agencies' development policies and practices. Born during the Cold War in a post-colonial setting and under the confinements of a Western academic environment, the field has also carried some of the peculiar ideological traits of its founding disciplines: economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology. These historical traits have been compounded by a progressive closure of academic debate and critical analysis that have rendered the field increasingly void of critical content and ethical reflection. The essence of the current crisis of development studies has been the result of the convergence of two factors. One is the hegemony of an almost tautological paradigm: neo-liberal structural adjustment policies. The other is the transformation of academic institutions from a “critical outsi...
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