Examines both theoretical and practical aspects of development
Includes case studies that illustrate the main development doctrines, broadening your understanding of the history of development
Challenges the notion that outcomes of development are predictable, encouraging practitioners to use development doctrines flexibly based on the requirements of specific situations
Adam Fforde is a Professorial Fellow at the Victoria Institute of Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Australia. He was an advisor to the Swedish Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam, and from 1992-2013 ran his development consultancy, Adam Fforde and Assoc, p/l.
"Mainstream approaches to development can often have unintended consequences that result in doing serious violence to the systems and peoples they are intended to assist. In this important and timely volume, Fforde sets out a cautionary tale that explores the origins of the misguided epistemologies informing development interventions. He also offers creative alternatives, emphasising the need to work with local social epistemologies and accommodate diversity and complexity in the design of development interventions. Fforde is one of the most original thinkers in the field and this book certainly delivers on its promise to `reinvent development´. I commend it to students, scholars and practitioners alike.” (Peter Case, Professor of Management, James Cook University, Australia)
"This book is not an easy read. However for those willing to engage with its contents it will reward them with a healthily critical and sceptical perspective on not just international development but public policy more broadly. At the heart of Fforde´s critique is that nearly all `interventions´ are premised on assumptions of knowable cause-effect relationships. The author claims a `right to scepticism´ and a right, in chosen circumstances, to organise as though there is no predictive knowledge of `what will cause what´. Fforde offers an important and critical challenge to some of the fundamental assumptions upon which policy makers, funders and bureaucrats make decisions.” (Chris Roche, Chair in International Development, La Trobe University, Australia)
This book debunks the foundations of contemporary government-led development policy. The author questions the predictability of success when using mainstream development doctrines and its underlying assumptions, approaching development from a sceptical standpoint, as opposed to the more common optimistic view. The book uses international development and aid as a case study of how rich countries define how change should happen. Further, it suggests alternative ways of thinking about and organizing social change.
1.Introduction
Part I: Development and Its Facts
2. Development Today: Its Facts
3. Development in the Early Years and the Facts of Underdevelopment Since WWII
4. The Facts behind Development's Facts: The Epistemological Assumptions of Mainstream Development
Part II: Development and Its Meanings
5. Christendom, Its Companions and the Question of Knowability: The Flaw at the Core of Classic Epistemology
6. Contesting Classical Development Doctrines: Explaining the Movement Away from Them
Part III: The Reinvention of Development: Managing Ignorance and Diversity
7. Option 1: Reconstructivist Development Doctrines
8. Option 2: Sceptical Development Doctrines
Part IV: Conclusion
9. The Reinvention of Development
1.Introduction .- 2. Development today: Its Facts .- 3. Development in the Early Years and the Facts of Underdevelopment Since WWII .- 4. The Facts behind Development's Facts: The Epistemological Assumptions of Mainstream Development .- 5. Christendom, Its Companions and the Question of Knowability: The Flaw at the Core of Classic Epistemology .- 6. Contesting Classical Development Doctrines: Explaining the Movement Away from Them .- 7. Option 1: Reconstructivist Development Doctrines .- 8. Option 2: Sceptical Development Doctrines .- 9. The Reinvention of Development.
Über den Autor
Adam Fforde is a Professorial Fellow at the Victoria Institute of Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Australia. He was an advisor to the Swedish Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam, and from 1992-2013 ran his development consultancy, Adam Fforde and Assoc, p/l.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1.Introduction
Part I: Development and Its Facts
2. Development Today: Its Facts
3. Development in the Early Years and the Facts of Underdevelopment Since WWII
4. The Facts behind Development's Facts: The Epistemological Assumptions of Mainstream Development
Part II: Development and Its Meanings
5. Christendom, Its Companions and the Question of Knowability: The Flaw at the Core of Classic Epistemology
6. Contesting Classical Development Doctrines: Explaining the Movement Away from Them
Part III: The Reinvention of Development: Managing Ignorance and Diversity
7. Option 1: Reconstructivist Development Doctrines
8. Option 2: Sceptical Development Doctrines
Part IV: Conclusion
9. The Reinvention of Development
Klappentext
This book debunks the foundations of contemporary government-led development policy. The author questions the predictability of success when using mainstream development doctrines and its underlying assumptions, approaching development from a sceptical standpoint, as opposed to the more common optimistic view. The book uses international development and aid as a case study of how rich countries define how change should happen. Further, it suggests alternative ways of thinking about and organizing social change.
Examines both theoretical and practical aspects of development
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Includes case studies that illustrate the main development doctrines, broadening your understanding of the history of development
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Challenges the notion that outcomes of development are predictable, encouraging practitioners to use development doctrines flexibly based on the requirements of specific situations
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