AVOIDING RESPONSIBILITY by Nathalie Karagiannis ( 9780745321899 )

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Title:

AVOIDING RESPONSIBILITY
THE POLITICS AND DISCOURSE OF EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT POLICY

By:

Nathalie Karagiannis

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0745321895

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PLUTO PRESS

Pub. date:

7 May, 2004

Pages:

208

Description:

Shows how European policy has shifted from accepting responsibility for colonialism to a more amnesiac politics in which post-colonial countries are responsible for their own fate.

Synopsis:

Post-colonial European politics have undergone profound changes. Constructing an intellectual history of European development discourse, this book brings together post-structuralist and critical approaches to understanding development. Nathalie Karagiannis analyses three key terms of European development discourse: `responsibility', `efficiency' and `giving'. Situating these terms in a concrete history of European post-colonial politics, the author shows how European policy has shifted from accepting responsibility for colonialism - constructed as it is on the paternalistic model of the gift - to a more amnesiac politics in which post-colonial countries are responsible for their own fate.

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