What do Buzzwords do for Development Policy? A critical look at 'participation', 'empowerment' and 'poverty reduction'
What do Buzzwords do for Development Policy? A critical look at 'participation', 'empowerment' and 'poverty reduction'
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DOI：
10.1080/01436590500235603
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发表时间：
2005-01-01
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2
通讯作者：
Brock, K
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作者：
Cornwall, A;Brock, K
在发展政策瞬息万变的世界里，流行语在燃烧解决方案中发挥着重要作用。今天的发展正统观念是由这些词组成的一个诱人的组合，其中"参与“、”赋予权力“和”减少贫穷“占据了突出的位置。本文对这三个术语如何在国际发展政策中使用进行了批判性的审视，探讨了不同的词汇配置如何构成特定类型的发展干预并为其辩护。报告分析了它们在两个当代发展政策文书，即减贫战略文件和千年发展目标中的使用情况。我们展示了曾经谈论政治和权力的词语如何被重新配置，以适应当今一刀切的发展模式，变成一种每个人都能认同的非政治化形式。因此，我们认为，在发展政策中使用这些指标可能会使人们对世界摆脱贫困的希望变得渺茫。
In the fast-moving world of development policy, buzzwords play an important part in flaming solutions. Today's development orthodoxies are captured in a seductive mix of such words, among which participation', 'empowerment' and 'poverty reduction' take a prominent place. This paper takes a critical look tit how these three terms have come to be used in international development policy, exploring how different configurations of words frame and justify particular kinds of development interventions. It analyses their use in the context of two contemporary development policy instruments, the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPS) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGS). We show how words that once spoke of politics and power have come to be reconfigured in the service of today's one-size-fits-all development recipes, spun into an apoliticised form that everyone can agree with. As such, we contend, their use in development policy may ofter little hope of the world free of poverty that they are used to evoke.