ABSTRACT
The final chapter discusses a number of critiques of discourse analysis in development studies, namely that it loses sight of materiality, homogenises and overgeneralises, neglects agency and is unable to provide political alternatives. It then outlines the significant arguments of this branch of research – regarding naturalisation and the universal scale, othering and the problematisation of deviance, legitimisation and the promise of betterment, hierarchisation and the expert knowledge of trustees, depoliticisation and the common interest, appropriation and the hybridisation of development discourse – before summing up the contribution that this book provides in addition.
