"Participatory Development, Complicity and Desire"
| dc.contributor.author | Kapoor, Ilan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-04-07T15:37:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-04-07T15:37:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article is an attempt at rethinking participatory development (PD) in terms of empire, undertaking a postcolonial and psychoanalytic reading. Postcolonialism helps point out that our discursive constructions of the Third World say more about us than the Third World; while psychoanalysis helps uncover the desires we invest in the Other. Thus, to the question, 'why do neo-imperial and inegalitarian relationships pervade PD?', the article answers, 'because even as PD promotes the Other's empowerment, it hinges crucially on our complicity and desire'; and 'because disavowing such complicity and desire is a technology of power'. The argument, in other words, is that complicity and desire are written into PD, making it prone to an exclusionary, Western-centric and inegalitarian politics. The article concludes with possibilities for confronting our complicities and desires through PD's radicalisation. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Ilan Kapoor, "Participatory Development, Complicity and Desire," Third World Quarterly 26.8 (2005): 1203 – 1220. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/7851 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Taylor and Francis | |
| dc.rights | This is an electronic version of an article published in Third World Quarterly [Ilan Kapoor, "Participatory Development, Complicity and Desire," Third World Quarterly 26.8 (2005): 1203-1220]. Third World Quarterly is available online at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/CTWQ The article is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a727545570~frm=titlelink | en |
| dc.rights.article | http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a727545570~frm=titlelink | en |
| dc.rights.journal | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/CTWQ | en |
| dc.rights.publisher | http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/ | en |
| dc.title | "Participatory Development, Complicity and Desire" | en |
| dc.type | Article |