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Development: projects, power and a poststructuralist perspective / Ziai, Aram   Journal Article
Ziai, Aram Journal Article
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Publication 2009.
Summary/Abstract The postdevelopment school has criticized development projects for their inherent power relations and their authoritarian implications. However, since the 1980s a transformation in development discourse can be observed that includes an emphasis on participation and civil society organizations. Through the analysis of several development projects, the article pursues the question of whether this transformation can also be observed on the level of projects-and on the level of inherent power relations. From a poststructuralist perspective, it argues that "development" functions as an empty signifier that can be filled with almost any content but constrains its form.
Key Words Power  ;  Development  ;  Poststructuralism  ;  Projects  ;  Empty Signifier 
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I am not a post-developmentalist, but: the influence of post-development on development studies / Ziai, Aram   Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract During the course of the 1990s, the Post-Development school emerged as an innovative though controversial approach in development studies. The article examines its critical reception in the textbooks and the extent to which its authors and arguments have become influential. It argues that the relationship between development studies and Post-Development is characterised simultaneously by (sometimes explicit, sometimes implicit) rejection and integration. Examining a number of current development studies textbooks, it illustrates the growing influence of Post-Development arguments and how they have been tacitly or consciously taken up while often rejecting Post-Development per se.
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Millennium development goals: back to the future / Ziai, Aram   Journal Article
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Publication 2011.
Summary/Abstract The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) constitute a normative consensus in the development community at the beginning of the 21st century. This article examines that consensus from the perspective of post-structuralist discourse analysis by situating it in its historical context, comparing the Millennium Declaration with the UN International Development Strategy of 1970. The article illustrates the depoliticising bias of the main MDG documents and interprets the shift in favour of market-oriented solutions and non-antagonistic conceptions of global community as the principal manifestations of a significant shift in development discourse.
Key Words Globalization  ;  Security  ;  Development  ;  MDG  ;  Millennium Development Goal 
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Post-development 25 years after the development dictionary / Ziai, Aram   Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract Few books in the history of development studies have had an impact like The Development Dictionary – A Guide to Knowledge as Power, which was edited by Wolfgang Sachs and published by Zed Books in 1992, and which was crucial in establishing what has become known as the Post-Development (PD) school. This special issue is devoted to the legacy of this book and thus to discussing PD.
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