This book uses a postcolonial lens to question development's
dominant cultural representations and institutional practices,
investigating the possibilities for a transformatory postcolonial
politics.
Ilan Kapoor examines recent development policy initiatives in
such areas as 'governance, ' 'human rights' and 'participation' to
better understand and contest the production of knowledge in
development - its cultural assumptions, power implications, and
hegemonic politics. The volume shows how development practitioners
and westernized elites/intellectuals are often complicit in this
neo-colonial knowledge production. Noble gestures such as giving
foreign aid or promoting participation and democracy frequently
mask their institutional biases and economic and geopolitical
interests, while silencing the subaltern (marginalized groups), on
whose behalf they purportedly work. In response, the book argues
for a radical ethical and political self-reflexivity that is
vigilant to our reproduction of neo-colonialisms and amenable to
public contestation of development priorities. It also underlines
subaltern political strategies that can (and do) lead to greater
democratic dialogue.
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