DEVS 492 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 6 : Cafod, Development Studies, Connect2
17 Feb 2017
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Public imaginaries of development and complex subjectivities: the challenge for development studies. This paper argues that development studies has offered limited critical engagement with the complex ways in which development shapes the subjectivities of citizens in the global north. A drawing together of postcolonial and cosmopolitan perspectives provides a starting point for rethinking scholarship and curricula in this area. However, we lack accounts of the complex, and contested ways individuals and groups in the. Global north engage with development, revealing limits to post-colonial scholarship within development studies. This can be seen in an increasingly explicit focus on development as security. The secretary of state for development, andrew mitchell, was then quoted saying: (owever, spaces for critical public debate are narrowing (cid:498)people want to see british aid money saving lives and educating children in the world(cid:495)s poorest. Under the banner of (cid:494)big society(cid:495), the uk government is increasingly focusing on voluntarism as a countries.
