Post-development theory and the discourse-agency conundrum

Social Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 118-137

  Lie, Jon Harald Sande ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS NUPI   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agency; Development; Discourse; Foucault; Post structuralism; Power; Social theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 61249390924     PISSN: 0155977X     EISSN: 15585727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3167/sa.2008.520306     Document Type: Article

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