About Agency & Development - Do Individuals Matter?
Contemporary international development practice is shaped by politics and extends historical assumptions, concepts and narratives that specify ways of working for professional and practitioners in international and 'local' NGOs. This series explores the theoretical and ethical issues in contemporary development organisations and their discourse, and how development NGO workers are 'captured' by this discourse.
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Concluding Thoughts - Can Practitioners Have Agency?
Is there space for individual agency within the confines of developmentalism? Only if we actively dismantle the two pillars of this ideology - neliberalism and institutionalisation - and confront the power of technocratic elites and INGOs...
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20 Sept 2023
Do practitioners have individual agency?
Considering what we have covered in this podcast series, do Plan CDFs exert agency as individual actors? As this episode argues, they cannot, as this is a misreading of 'agency' as an expression of individual action or attributes that is central to developmentalist discourse.
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18 Sept 2023
Performatist Tropes - Project Media
Publicising development in the form of projects fulfils important needs of developmentalism. On the one hand it serves northern donors with expressions of the success of development subjects, while simultaneously re-legitimising the INGO as an enabling actor in this success. To do so, project media visits have to set up highly performative scenarios where the primary emergent interests are not necessarily those the project beneficiaries.
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