The Governance of the Third World: A Foucauldian Perspective on Power Relations in Development
The Governance of the Third World: A Foucauldian Perspective on Power Relations in Development
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第三世界的治理：发展中权力关系的福柯视角
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1991
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M. Dubois
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M. Dubois
第三世界的发展有许多不同的含义，引起了许多讨论。这场辩论有些涉及作为一个进程的发展，有些涉及这一进程的目的或目标。然而，发展最重要的一面既没有得到辩论，也没有得到讨论，因为它被视为理所当然，因此仍然没有得到确认。发展本身-某些国家正在努力实现的状态-仍然是一个模糊不清的（有些难以捉摸的）目标。以目的论为取向的发展理论在相当长的一段时间内已经受到怀疑，但人们仍然发现，无论发展水平如何，从个人发展到国际发展，总有某种东西-某种别的东西-是目标。我的论点是，无论它是什么，这个最后的安息之地或圣杯所谓的发展可能最终被证明是一个虚假的偶像，而不是救世主。我怀疑，有一些隐藏的成本和后果使发展战略和目标成为问题。的
The many different meanings assigned to development in the Third World are a source of much discussion. Some of this debate concerns development as a process and some the end or goal of that process. The most important side of development, however, is neither debated nor discussed because it is taken for granted, and thus remains unidentified. Development itself - the state that certain countries find themselves struggling to attain - remains a nebulous (and somewhat elusive) objective. Development theories with teleological orientations have been discredited for quite some time now, but one still finds that at whatever level of development, from individual to international, there is something out there - something other - that is the target. It is my contention that whatever it is that is out there, this final resting place or Holy Grail called development might ultimately prove to be more of a false idol than a savior. I suspect that there are hidden costs and consequences that render development strategies and goals problematic. The