 | Avoiding Responsibility: The Politics and Discourse of European Development Policy Subjects: Economic development; Developing countries -- Economic conditions; Developing countries -- Social conditions; European Union countries -- Foreign economic relations -- Developing countries; Developing countries -- Foreign economic relations -- European Un; Post-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. |
