{"title":"The Silent Traditions of Developing Cooks","authors":"E. Crewe","doi":"10.4324/9781003136071-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003136071-3","url":null,"abstract":"Cultural traditions within European development organizations have been a neglected field, to the frustration of development personnel elsewhere. Tandon argues that it is difficult for Africans to fathom the workings of 'Western' Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) 'not only because of their secrecy but also because their ideological and philosophical orientations are products of complex historical forces within their own countries which outsiders cannot fully understand' (1991: 74).1 Perhaps it is even harder for European 'insiders' to make sense of these complex historical forces. Rather than seeing their own ideology as a product of history, their thinking is oriented by it. Ideology is automatically imbued with a character of objectivity for insiders (Bourdieu 1977: 167), while outsiders are constantly reminded that historical forces behind the foreign ideology are very different from their own. What appears as secrecy amongst 'Western' development agencies is probably more likely to be the silence of tradition being taken for granted. It is aspects of the assumptions made by 'developers', part of the development 'industry'S' silent traditions, that I will try to uncloak in this paper. I will illustrate how","PeriodicalId":391706,"journal":{"name":"Discourses of Development","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126524118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Webs of Power and the Construction of Environmental Policy Problems: Forest Loss in Guinea","authors":"J. Fairhead, M. Leach","doi":"10.4324/9781003136071-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003136071-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":391706,"journal":{"name":"Discourses of Development","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131808341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Donors’ Discourse: Official Social Development Knowledge in the 1980s","authors":"A. Rew","doi":"10.4324/9781003136071-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003136071-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":391706,"journal":{"name":"Discourses of Development","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128415143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Watching the Developers: A Partial Ethnography","authors":"G. Kaufmann","doi":"10.4324/9781003136071-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003136071-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":391706,"journal":{"name":"Discourses of Development","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124283184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender Politics, Development and Women’s Agency in Rajasthan","authors":"M. Unnithan, Kavita Srivastava","doi":"10.4324/9781003136071-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003136071-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":391706,"journal":{"name":"Discourses of Development","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127317249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards an Ethnography of Participatory Appraisal and Research","authors":"J. Pottier","doi":"10.4324/9781003136071-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003136071-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":391706,"journal":{"name":"Discourses of Development","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130622768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alternative Vocabularies of Development? ‘Community’ and ‘Participation’ in Development Discourse in Sri Lanka","authors":"Michael D. Woost","doi":"10.4324/9781003136071-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003136071-10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":391706,"journal":{"name":"Discourses of Development","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126507219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mixed Messages: Contested ‘Development’ and the ‘Plantation Rehabilitation Project’","authors":"K. Gardner","doi":"10.4324/9781003136071-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003136071-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":391706,"journal":{"name":"Discourses of Development","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124251115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}