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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on October 26, 2005
Community Development Journal 2006 41(1):120-123; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsi108
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Avoiding responsibility: The politics and discourse of European development policy

Nathalie Karagiannis, Pluto Press, London and Ann Arbor, MI, 2002, ISBN 0 745321895 (pb), £15.99.

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This book deals with an important subject. Regrettably, it does not do so in a wholly successful way. The author's general purpose is to steer a path between a normative–ethical approach to the topic and a political–scientific one, and the main methodological stance adopted is a version of discourse analysis. Drawing, in particular, on the work of Laclau and Mouffe, she examines two discursive ‘moments’ in European development discourse, or two different ways of justifying European development policy – responsibility and efficiency. The first, at least in the early stages of European policy, entailed a paternalistic sense of European concern for its former colonial possessions, while the latter legitimizes . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Andy Storey

Centre for Development Studies, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Address for correspondence: andydsc@yahoo.co.uk


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