The Discourse of Development: has it reached maturity?

Herath, Dhammika

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“…1980'lerde devlet müdahalesiyle kalkınma çabalarının kalkınmacılığı benimsemiş bazı Asya ülkeleri haricinde başarısız olduğu ve serbest piyasaya dayalı kapitalist sistemin toplumların siyasi, ekonomik ve sosyal sorunlarını çözeceği fikri yaygınlaşmaya başlamıştır (Herath, 2009(Herath, : 1454 1990'larda neoliberal paradigma hegemonik konumunu korusa da, bu evrede kalkınma teorileri, pratikleri ve söylemleri yine şiddetle eleştirilmiş, hatta kalkınmanın bir yanılsama olduğu (Rist, 1997) veya artık geçerliliği kalmayan ölü bir fikir olduğu (Sachs, 2010) savunulmuştur. Post-modern ve post-kolonyal teorilere dayalı postkalkınmacı yaklaşımlar, kalkınmanın modernleşmeyle bir tutulmasını eleştirmiş ve kalkınma süreçlerinin Güney ülkelerinin perspektifinden yeniden yorumlanması gerektiğini savunmuştur (Chant, McIlwaine, 2009: 48-49).…”

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“…Sömürgecilikle, yayılmacılıkla ve dış müdahalelerle mücadele ederek kalkınmayı amaçlayan ülkelerin bir araya gelmesiyle Soğuk Savaş bağlamında üçüncü bir blok olarak ortaya çıkan Bağlantısızlar Hareketi ve Birleşmiş Milletler (BM) bünyesinde gelişmekte olan ülkelerce oluşturulan G77 grubu bu bağlamda dikkat çeken girişimler olmuştur. 1980'lerde devlet müdahalesiyle kalkınma çabalarının kalkınmacılığı benimsemiş bazı Asya ülkeleri haricinde başarısız olduğu ve serbest piyasaya dayalı kapitalist sistemin toplumların siyasi, ekonomik ve sosyal sorunlarını çözeceği fikri yaygınlaşmaya başlamıştır (Herath, 2009(Herath, : 1454 Environment and Development, 1987: 43). 1990'larda neoliberal paradigma hegemonik konumunu korusa da, bu evrede kalkınma teorileri, pratikleri ve söylemleri yine şiddetle eleştirilmiş, hatta kalkınmanın bir yanılsama olduğu (Rist, 1997) veya artık geçerliliği kalmayan ölü bir fikir olduğu (Sachs, 2010) savunulmuştur.…”

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Waiting for the Southeastern Anatolia Project: An Exploration of the Factors That Stall the Project’s Progress

Bilgen¹

2019

Hacettepe Üniversitesi İktisadi Ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi

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Initiated in the 1970s, the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) initially aimed primarily at the construction of 22 dams and 19 hydroelectric power plants on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and of extensive irrigation networks to produce hydroelectric energy and irrigate 1.8 million hectares of land in southeastern Turkey. Later, the scope of GAP broadened significantly as it became a more comprehensive scheme of modernization. Thanks to its massive size and transformative power, the project has had a crucial impact on shaping the dynamics of Turkey's domestic and international affairs. Despite this, GAP could not be completed in 2005 as scheduled. According to the latest figures, only 74% of the energy projects and 30.4% of the irrigation projects have been completed. In the literature, however, the failure of not completing GAP on time as well as the issues that caused the project to stall have not received adequate attention. This study seeks to fill this gap and explore the factors that stall the project's progress. Based on parliamentary proceedings from 1975 to 2014, the archival resources of the GAP Regional Development Administration, and 64 semistructured interviews conducted with relevant actors, the study highlights ten major factors and examines each to provide a fresh perspective on the past, present, and future of the project.

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Waiting for the Southeastern Anatolia Project: An Exploration of the Factors That Stall the Project’s Progress

Bilgen¹

2019

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“…The corporate structure of the program, however, was explicitly part of a development and assimilation paradigm (e.g., Escobar 1997Escobar , 2001Autumn 1996;Hearth 2009), with land rights assigned to corporations instead of tribes and these corporations then, theoretically, providing economic opportunity through increased development opportunities in rural Alaska. Negative side effects of the program included decreased tribal sovereignty (Case and Voluck 2002), and particularly a decrease of control over subsistence, the lifeblood of rural Alaska Native communities (Anders and Langdon 1989;Conn and Langdon 1988;Landgdon 1986), as well as the creation a system in which land rights could be slowly lost over time as payment for debts (Berger 1985).…”

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A tale of two communities: Using relational place-making to examine fisheries policy in the Pribilof Island communities of St. George and St. Paul, Alaska

2016

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This paper describes how relational place-making, with its focus on power dynamics, networked politics, and non-market, locally-valued characteristics, provides a useful framework for managers to better design fishing community policies. Social data, while becoming more common in fisheries management analyses, are typically restricted to quantitative measures that often cannot adequately summarize dynamics within fishing communities. In contrast, detailed ethnographic research and the theoretical framework of relational place-making can provide a useful methodology through which to gather social data to understand resource-dependent communities and the effects of fisheries management policies in these places. Relational place-making describes the process through which physical spaces are transformed into socially meaningful places, and how these understandings are contested and negotiated among different groups of actors. These contested narratives of place, called place-frames, can interact with economic development efforts to help create (or fail to create) sustainable communities. To better understand the efficacy of a specific fisheries policy, the community development quota (CDQ) program, we conducted 6 months of ethnographic research in the rural, Native communities of St. George and St. Paul, Alaska. In both communities we found that local place-frames centered on local empowerment and control. In St. George, local place-frames conflicted with place-frames advanced by CDQ employees, and locals were unable to align place-making goals with local economic realities. In St. Paul, local residents and CDQ employees shared a place-frame, allowing them to accomplish numerous local development goals. However, differences in place-frames advanced by other political entities on the island often complicated development initiatives. This study supports previous research indicating that policies and development projects that increase local power and self-determination are most successful in furthering community sustainability and well-being. This study indicates that relational place-making can illuminate local goals and desires and is therefore of great utility to the fisheries management decision-making process.

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“…Within development, the number of alternative approaches to modernisation that have arisen as a response to the changing needs of individuals and communities (or springing from a better understanding of these needs), some closely aligned to the former and some radically opposed, is quite staggering. Some have argued that the cumulative result of this range of theories has led the discourse of development to reach its maturity (Herath, 2009). Others claim that despite the excitement and controversies that have surrounded various conceptions of development that differ in some features from what has gone before, the most striking feature of the discourse of development is its continuity (Rist, 1997).…”

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“…was notable for what Lample (2009, p. 16) has called a "collapse of reason, or failure of epistemology". Whereas modernism held that there were absolute truths or 'meta-narratives' that human beings were able to understand through the use of reason and scientific methods of investigation, postmodernists drew attention "to the process of construction and promotion of knowledge where certain kinds of knowledge have power and get treated accordingly while other kinds of knowledge, namely, those of the local and indigenous are subordinated and discarded" (Herath, 2009(Herath, , pp. 1458(Herath, -1459.…”

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Preparing for Social Action: A Case Study from Zambia on the Relationship Between Religious Knowledge and Development

Skeaff¹

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<p>This study is based on two premises: the centrality of knowledge to processes of development and the centrality of spirituality and religion to the lives of the majority of the world’s population. It is through the generation and application of knowledge that communities and societies progress, and for many this change involves “a dynamic coherence between the spiritual and the material” (Tyndale, 2003, p. 23). Religion can be regarded as a system of knowledge, based upon the sacred texts that lie at the heart of the world’s major religions, addressing aspects of spiritual reality. Historically, religious knowledge in development has been marginalised or discredited; secularism has been identified as the normative, rational position. This position has increasingly been challenged over the last decade, which has witnessed a ‘global resurgence in religion’ (Berger, 1999). A growing number of voices are calling for serious engagement with religion in development. This research sets out to explore some of the questions raised in an emerging discourse between religion and development by engaging with religion as a system of knowledge that informs development theory and practice. The work focuses on a Bahá’í-inspired organisation in Zambia as a case study. Inshindo Foundation offers an education for development programme, Preparation for Social Action, that emphasizes harmony between the material and spiritual in processes of development. Over a ten-week period in 2010, I used qualitative methods to investigate the conceptions and experiences of PSA students and tutors in relation to their participation in the programme. The findings highlight the potential role of religious knowledge and spiritual values to inform and motivate individual action for change and sustain commitment and effort to achieve collective goals. This makes an important contribution to understandings of how to promote participatory development. At the level of theory, the findings draw attention to a vision of development based on spiritual values and principles that is fundamentally different from mainstream conceptions.</p>

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The Discourse of Development: has it reached maturity?

Cited by 19 publications

References 9 publications

Waiting for the Southeastern Anatolia Project: An Exploration of the Factors That Stall the Project’s Progress

Waiting for the Southeastern Anatolia Project: An Exploration of the Factors That Stall the Project’s Progress

A tale of two communities: Using relational place-making to examine fisheries policy in the Pribilof Island communities of St. George and St. Paul, Alaska

Preparing for Social Action: A Case Study from Zambia on the Relationship Between Religious Knowledge and Development

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