ABSTRACT
Introduction A more comprehensive account of DRAaM is required before any critical analysis of the South African industry can commence. This chapter offers an historical account of DRAaM’s development and institutionalisation globally by using Foucault’s genealogical method. As such, the analysis is not meant to reveal linear progression or regression. Genealogies are not based on (unrealistic) commitments to clear indisputable causal linkages. Rather, genealogy traces the emergence of discourse by explaining which discourses emerged with it, perhaps even preceding it at times, though sometimes also occurring in parallel. Associated discourses set the necessary conditions for a particular discourse to develop in the way it has, by creating a particular frame of reference which facilitates the discursive and other practices leading to, in this case, DRAaM’s particular institutionalisation. The chapter traces DRAaM’s development along two broad discourses; those which emerged in development and those pertaining to another apparent contemporary global metanarrative or macro-discourse, being risk assessment and management.
