scholarly journals From International Development to Social Development: A Critical Review on Development Policies and Development Sociology in South Korea

2016 ◽  
Vol null (109) ◽  
pp. 234-267
Author(s):  
김태균
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Social Development ◽  
International Development ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Development Policies

Capitalising upon Globalisation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Webber
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Development ◽  
Macroeconomic Policy ◽  
Domestic Policy ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
Gordon Brown ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
At Home

Having mapped out in the previous chapter, New Labour’s often contradictory and even ‘politically-convenient’ understanding of globalisation, chapter 3 offers analysis of three key areas of domestic policy that Gordon Brown would later transpose to the realm of international development: (i) macroeconomic policy, (ii) business, and (iii) welfare. Since, according to Brown at least, globalisation had resulted in a blurring of the previously distinct spheres of domestic and foreign policy, it made sense for those strategies and policy decisions designed for consumption at home to be transposed abroad. The focus of this chapter is the design of these three areas of domestic policy; the unmistakeable imprint of Brown in these areas and their place in building of New Labour’s political economy. Strikingly, Brown’s hand in these policies and the themes that underpinned them would again reappear in the international development policies explored in much greater detail later in the book.

Who or what is a development manager?

1998 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-68
Author(s):  
Ron Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Development Management ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Is Development ◽  
Lower Income Countries ◽  
Development Manager

Although ill-defined, the term “development management” is broadly understood to refer to the management of economic and social development, and the reduction of poverty, at various levels from macro to micro, in lower income countries. “Development management” pre-supposes “development managers”, but this term is even less well defined. Popular perceptions suggest that the concept is less easily applied at the macro level, but more readily at the micro, and also more to someone who is development-minded than someone whose job is to manage or implement development policies and processes, although the two can overlap. This perception – and its implications for management training – is followed through to suggest a profile of a development manager as someone who is forward-thinking, people-oriented, resourceful, flexible in his or her approach to means of achieving objectives, and morally committed.

Making children’s ‘agency’ visible: Towards the localisation of a concept in theory and practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Edmonds
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Cultural Assumptions ◽  
Analytic Tool ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
Children’S Agency ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Cultural Terms ◽  
New Directions ◽  
New Research

The concept of ‘agency’ is regularly put forward as an analytic tool to help understand, evaluate and act upon places around the world, through social development policies and programmes ostensibly designed to support or increase children’s agency. This article reflects on empirical research into children’s agency spanning a range of international contexts over two decades and offers new insights through critical engagement with a growing body of work on the ‘localisation’ of social development and humanitarian responses in international settings. It suggests that the largely normative ways in which the concept of agency is invoked as an analytic tool for understanding human experience universally effectively renders children’s agency invisible to us. This is because it is more a description of a particular discourse than something which actually helps us to understand and make visible children’s socio-culturally grounded ‘agentic practice’ from place to place. This article argues for new directions in research and practice to localise agency that are critical to the central commitments of interpretive social science. These new directions include (a) a new research agenda which can go beyond children’s ‘own perspectives’ to the discovery, description and analysis of agency in socio-cultural terms, to ensure it can function as an analytic tool for learning about socio-cultural phenomena which help animate local concepts of agency; and (b) the development of agency-related policies and programmes that are grounded in such locally situated concepts of agency developed through understanding local socio-cultural systems rather than externally derived socio-cultural assumptions about childhood and children’s agency.

DISJUNCTURES IN THEORY AND PRACTICE: MAKING SENSE OF CHANGE IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AT THE OFFICE DU NIGER, 1920–60

2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
MONICA M. VAN BEUSEKOM
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Development Discourse ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Office Du Niger ◽  
Social Scientific

In the introduction to their edited volume International Development and the Social Sciences: Essays on the History and Politics of Knowledge, Frederick Cooper and Randall Packard take on the thorny question of why development policies change and why they sometimes persist or reappear after a period of dormancy. Much recent scholarship has located the reasons for persistence or change in development approaches within international institutions such as multilateral and bilateral aid agencies and Western scientific and social scientific disciplines. Both Arturo Escobar and James Ferguson argue for the existence of a hegemonic development discourse with standardized interventions aimed at ‘solving’ homogenized ‘problems’. Grounded in Western institutions such as the World Bank, this development discourse is maintained by an interlocked network of experts and expertise. In their analyses, development approaches and interventions are minimally affected by the particularities of locale. Other scholars concerned with identifying and understanding significant change in development policy have also focused their studies on Western organizations and disciplines and excluded from their analysis the role that development practice might play in change. But Cooper and Packard challenge scholars to consider the ways in which development policies might be molded by the practice of development, when they note ‘it is not clear that the determinants of these policies are as independent of what goes on at the grassroots as they appear to their authors or their critics to be’.

scholarly journals De la mécanique du bonheur à la mécanique de la mort : Réflexions critiques sur quelques paradigmes du développement

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-287
Author(s):  
Alf Schwarz
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Social Development ◽  
International Development ◽  
Shortness Of Breath ◽  
Industrial Growth ◽  
Material Basis ◽  
Human Energy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mechanical Logic ◽  
Area Of Study

Just as reflection on international development is suffering from a certain shortness of breath, so are the dynamics of technico-industrial growth becoming weaker. This study seeks to demonstrate how this double falling off originates in the weaknesses manifest in the energy reasonings of the mechanical logic which latter directs the ideology and the material basis of economic and social development. After having first summarized the classical'paradigm of mechanical growth, the study recapitulates the principal argumentation of the theoretical model of the thermodynamicists of development and of their critique of the classical paradigm. The study also stresses how both eliminate from their analyses of the process of the economic ans social development of nations that human energy of the unexpected and the contradictory that is born of the meeting of multiple historical experiences, of the impacting of the « similar » and the « different » and which produces, as the ultimate mutation, the ecumenical history of the international dynamic. The perspective brought to the area of study may be summarized therefore by this question both so simple and at the same time so complicated: how does one sustain the diversity of cultures, respect the experience of Others, live with them without reducing them to silence, without co- opting them, without thinking that all the roads of History lead toward us.

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