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dc.contributor.authorKARAGIANNIS, Nathalie
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-18T14:41:38Z
dc.date.available2012-06-18T14:41:38Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.identifier.citationLondon : Pluto Press, 2004en
dc.identifier.isbn9780745321899
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/22395
dc.description.abstractPost-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.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherPluto Pressen
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://hdl.handle.net/1814/5319en
dc.titleAvoiding responsibility : the politics and discourse of European development policyen
dc.typeBooken
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dc.description.versionPublished version of EUI PhD thesis, 2002en


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