Avoiding Responsibility, livre ebook

Post-colonial European politics have undergone profound changes. Constructing an intellectual history of European development discourse, this book brings together post-structuralist and critical approaches to understanding development.
Nathalie Karagiannis analyses three key terms of European development discourse: 'responsibility', 'efficiency' and 'giving'. Situating these terms in a concrete history of European post-colonial politics, the author shows how European policy has shifted from accepting responsibility for colonialism - constructed as it is on the paternalistic model of the gift - to a more amnesiac politics in which post-colonial countries are responsible for their own fate.
1. Europe and Development Revisited

2. Out of America

3. The Failed Myth of Development

4. The Vocation of Responsibility

5. The Passion of Efficiency

6. Pandora’s Box: Giving Development

7. Europe’s Quest

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