Developmentalism as Internationalism

IF 1.3 Q3 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
C. Thornton
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Abstract

Drawing on the methodological insights of Global Historical Sociology, this article argues for a relational reconceptualization of the origins of the international development project as rooted in demands emanating from the poorer countries themselves, particularly in Latin America. First, this article traces how sociologists and development scholars have conventionally understood the origins of the international development project, arguing that post-development scholarship has left a lasting imprint even among those scholars who might reject some of its underlying premises. It then returns to the historical record to reconstruct a new empirical history of the origins of the international development project by examining, especially, the relations between Latin American actors and those from the Global North. This reconstruction, mobilizing little-studied archival records from Latin America and reading them in relation to and against the conventional sources from the United States and Europe, reveals that the key institutions that emerged at mid-century to govern the development project were, in fact, the product of sustained demands from below—the product of an ongoing relation between North and South. The article concludes by considering what this historical reconstruction means for the ways that sociologists understand, write about, and teach the international development project, arguing that this relational understanding of its origins is necessary for any project to “decolonize development.”
作为国际主义的发展主义
根据全球历史社会学的方法论见解,本文主张对国际发展项目的起源进行关系重新概念化,认为其根源在于来自较贫穷国家本身的需求,特别是在拉丁美洲。首先,本文追溯了社会学家和发展学者传统上是如何理解国际发展项目的起源的,认为后发展学术即使在那些可能拒绝其某些基本前提的学者中也留下了持久的印记。然后,它返回到历史记录,重建国际发展项目的起源的一个新的经验历史,特别是通过检查,拉丁美洲的演员和那些来自全球北方的关系。这种重建调动了来自拉丁美洲的很少被研究的档案记录,并将它们与来自美国和欧洲的传统资料进行对比和对比,揭示了在本世纪中叶出现的管理发展项目的关键机构实际上是下层持续需求的产物,是南北之间持续关系的产物。文章最后考虑了这种历史重建对于社会学家理解、撰写和教授国际发展项目的方式意味着什么,认为这种对其起源的关系理解对于任何“非殖民化发展”项目都是必要的。
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Sociology of Development
Sociology of Development Social Sciences-Development
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