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DevNet NZ Research: Details
Development, foreign and post-development in Timor-Leste
Author: Andrew McGregor Year: 2007
Email: arm@geography.otago.ac.nz
Citation: McGregor, A. 2007 Development, foreign aid and post-development in Timor-Leste Third World Quarterly 28 (1): 155-170.
Post-development theories have successfully challenged many of the ways in which we think about development but have yet to substantially influence development practice. In this paper I explore what opportunities exist for applying post-development ideas within the current development apparatus of Timor-Leste. Four types of community-focused programmes are analysed; sectoral project based initiatives, institutional capacity building programmes, community partnerships and small grants programmes. Whilst alternative opportunities are clearly shown to be present it is argued that they are rarely realised because of the overwhelming priority to produce better agents of development, rather than those able to pursue ‘alternatives-to-development’. The paper concludes by suggesting that the development apparatus itself may not be inherently faulted and instead such systems should be usefully and powerfully utilised, when accompanied by appropriate changes in development imaginaries, to pursue post-development goals.
Download: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/01436597.html
Research Status: Completed
Pages Updated On: 18-Nov-2008 - 15:20:30