ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Capacity Building, Peacebuilding, Governmentality
Document Summary
Edmunds and juncos (2019) - constructing the capable state: Contested discourses and practices in eu capacity building. Unacceptable forms of state capacity: more localized, informal or traditional in nature, constraining the imaginary of what is possible in capacity building. Capacity building do not have linear or straightforwardly hierarchical effects and do not represent an uncontested exercise of power by the eu over uncontentious subaltern actors. Authors argue that capacity building represents a form of governance insofar as it aspires to constitute particular kinds of subjects through dominant discourses and imaginations about what a. Foucauldian approach used to analyse how power circulates and how knowledge transfers from. Problematisations legitimise eu (and other donor) interventions aimed at shaping the governance of states and populations on its periphery from a distance. Three problematisations of the local that are common to eu capacity building activities: lack of institutions: relative lack of power lack of knowledge.
