Authority and Expertise: The Professionalisation of International Development and the Ordering of Dissent

Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism: Activism, Professionalisation and Incorporation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 32-53

  Kothari, Uma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"alternative" approaches, into neoliberal agenda of agencies; "recipients" of aid, best in managing their own resources; Authority, expertise, professionalisation of international development; Colonial rule to neoliberal, continuities and divergences; Critical voices within a neoliberal, foreign aid in shaping practices; Development professionals, western notions of "progress"; Eurocentrism, gendered and racialised; Neoliberal and universalising principles, reinforcing global control; Post colonial professionalisation of development; UK industry, professionalisation and technicalisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885999351     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444397437.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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