The authors of this text raise provocative questions about the relationship of politics, power, ideology and rhetoric to the institutional practice of developme

Development' is clearly a contentious concept. It is common knowledge that there is frequently a troubling divide between what Western developers think developm

The manner in which people have been talking and writing about ‘development’ and the rules according to which they have done so have evolved over time. Deve

Originally published: 1995. Paperback reissue, with a new preface by the author.

This collection shows how policy discourses in the fields of national and international developments are constructed and operate and how they can be analysed. D