1st Edition
Arguing Development Policy Frames and Discourses
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
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This collection shows how policy discourses in the fields of national and international developments are constructed and operate and how they can be analysed. Dominant discourses screen out certain aspects: they frame' issues to include some matters and typically exclude important others. More generally, different policy discourses construct the world in distinctive ways, through language that... Read more
Introduction - discourse analysis and policy discourse, Des gasper and Raymond Apthorpe; reading development policy and policy analysis - on framing, numbing, numbering and coding, Raymond Apthorpe; analyzing policy arguments, Des Gasper; re-reading mountainous, isolated, inaccessible and small - the case of Bhutan, Adam Pain; methodological nationalism and the misunderstinding of East Asian industrialization, Charles Gore; reading Americans on democracy in Africa - from the CIA to good governance, David Moore; essentialism in and about development discourse, Des Gasper.
Biography
Raymond Apthorpe, Des Gasper
