The last two decades have seen the remarkable rise to dominance of
human-centred understandings of the world. Indeed, it is now rare
to read any analysis of insecurity, conflict or development which
does not discuss the need to 'empower' or 'capacity-build' local
individuals or communities. In this path-breaking book, Chandler
presents a radical challenge to such approaches, arguing that the
solutions to the world's problems are now not perceived to lie
within external structures of economic, political and social
relations, but instead with individuals and groups who are often
seen to be the most marginal and powerless. This fundamental change
has gone hand-in-hand with the shift from state-based to
society-based understandings of the world. Chandler provocatively
argues that human-centred approaches have limited rather than
expanded the transformative possibilities available to us, and if
real change is to be achieved - both at a local and a global level
- then a radical re-think in Western thought is required.
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