Buzzwords and fuzzwords: deconstructing development discourse

2007-07-25articleDevelopment in Practice561 citationsclosed

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Development, Ethics, and Society Cultural and political discourse analysis Economic and Social Development

Abstract

All things are subject to interpretation; whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. (Friedrich Nietzche) Words make worlds. The language of development...

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