Entrepreneurship and education. The missing link in international development theory and practice

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Dragos Aligica ◽  
Bogdan Florian
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Missing Link

International Development Ethics

1998 ◽  
pp. 17-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Crocker
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
International Development ◽  
Applied Ethics ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
World War ◽  
Development Ethics ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Philosophical Debates

I discuss the nature and genesis of international development ethics as well as its current areas of consensus, controversies, challenges, and agenda. A relatively new field of applied ethics, international development ethics is ethical reflection on the ends and means of socioeconomic change in poor countries and regions. It has several sources: criticism of colonialism and post-World War II developmental strategies; Denis Goulet's writings; Anglo-American philosophical debates about the ethics of famine relief; and Paul Streeten's and Amartya Sen's approaches to development. Development ethicists agree that the moral dimension of development theory and practice is just as important as the scientific and policy components. What is often called "development" (e.g., economic growth) may be bad for people, communities, and the environment. Hence, the process of development should be reconceived as beneficial change, usually specified as alleviating human misery and environmental degradation in poor countries.

Confronting Desire

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilan Kapoor
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Fertile Ground

By applying psychoanalytic perspectives to key themes, concepts, and practices underlying the development enterprise, this book offers a new way of analyzing the problems, challenges, and potentialities of international development. The book makes a compelling case for examining development's unconscious desires and in the process inaugurates a new field of study: psychoanalytic development studies. The book analyzes how development's unconscious desires “speak out,” most often in excessive and unpredictable ways that contradict the outwardly rational declarations of its practitioners. It investigates development's many irrationalities — from obsessions about growth and poverty to the perverse seductions of racism and over-consumption. By deploying key psychoanalytic concepts — enjoyment, fantasy, antagonism, fetishism, envy, drive, perversion, and hysteria — the book critically analyzes important issues in development — growth, poverty, inequality, participation, consumption, corruption, gender, “race,” LGBTQ politics, universality, and revolution. The book offers prescriptions for applying psychoanalysis to development theory and practice and demonstrates how psychoanalysis can provide fertile ground for radical politics and the transformation of international development.

Educating the Heart: Fostering Hope Through Theatre in the AIDS Crisis in South Africa

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meghan Ward
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
International Development ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Aids Crisis ◽  
Theatrical Representation ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
International Development Studies ◽  
Hiv Aids

With approximately 5.3 million people living with HIV/AIDS, South Africa has the highest HIV­ prevalence rate in the world. HIV tends to strike the most vulnerable people in society, and is often associated with high risk behaviours, which inevitably leads to stigmatization. Through an integration of theatre and development theory, I propose to investigate the potential of using theatre as a community event that raises awareness of collective issues and that offers new hope to people living with HIV. I suggest that theatre can educate the heart and put a human face on HIV/AIDS, thus catalyzing a healing process at the community level. By targeting township youth, those who are currently driving the virus, an interactive theatre style, such as participatory methodology, can effectively move beyond didactic education. In participatory theatre, the target group is incorporated into the theatrical representation of their circumstances through the performance of personal testimonies associated with HIV. Here, the power of theatre lies in its ability to produce individual reactions in the audience, which ultimately result in a collective experience and elevated consciousness through the discussion that ensues. The community is thus empowered to engage in a new ap proach to HIV/AIDS. Can such a performance prevent further infections by exposing the consequences and realities of living with AIDS? While a test­case would be ideal in the affirmation of these ideas, I hope to bring a new approach to community theatre through a combination of theories from both theatre and international development studies.

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