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      Deconstructing Human Development
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      Deconstructing Human Development book

      From the Washington Consensus to the 2030 Agenda

      Deconstructing Human Development

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      Deconstructing Human Development book

      From the Washington Consensus to the 2030 Agenda
      ByJuan Telleria
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2020
      eBook Published 10 December 2020
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003043652
      Pages 144
      eBook ISBN 9781003043652
      Subjects Global Development, Politics & International Relations
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      Telleria, J. (2020). Deconstructing Human Development: From the Washington Consensus to the 2030 Agenda (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003043652

      ABSTRACT

      This book provides a critical deconstruction of the human development framework promoted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990. Taking the Human Development Reports of the UNDP as its starting point for reflection, this book investigates the construction of this framework as well as its political function since the end of the Cold War. The book argues that the UNDP’s discourse on development relies on essentialist philosophical, cultural, and political assumptions dating back to the 19th century and concludes that these assumptions – also present in the MDGs and SDGs – impede a full grasp of the complex and multi-layered global problems of the current world. Whilst development critiques traditionally relied on liberal, Marxist or Foucauldian theoretical frameworks and focused on epistemological or political economy issues, this book draws on the post-foundational and post-structuralist work of Ernesto Laclau and Jacques Derrida and proposes an ontological and relational reading of development discourses that both complements and further develops the insights of previous critiques. This book is key reading for advanced students and researchers of Critical Development Studies, Political Science, the UN, and Sustainable Development.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |14 pages

      Introduction

      The endless quest

      chapter 1|21 pages

      (The absence of) development

      chapter 2|22 pages

      Evolutionism and the matryoshka doll

      chapter 3|17 pages

      Sisyphus and the mountain called capitalism

      chapter 4|21 pages

      We are the champions

      chapter 5|24 pages

      We are the world

      chapter |7 pages

      Conclusion

      Past, ____ and future
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