ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the structure of development discourse based on Foucault’s archaeology of knowledge, applying its methodological rules to reveal the patterns in the formation of objects, enunciative modalities, concepts and strategies. It explores how these patterns changed in the transition from colonial discourse to the discourse of ‘development’ in the mid-20th century, tracing the transfer of trusteeship from the European colonisers to the new leaders of the independent countries in a number of policy documents between 1919 and 1970.
