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Title
South Sudan as a development task: A study of the practices of international development organizations in a fragile state |
Full text
http://rudar.ruc.dk/handle/1800/26714 |
Date
2016 |
Author(s)
Christoffersen, Zita Bo |
Contributor(s)
Buur, Lars |
Abstract
This thesis is concerned with how development organizations work globally and how their work constitutes part of global governance practices. South Sudan is studied as case of a development task. By employing an analytical framework that combines a governmentality approach with ethnography of development, the analysis is able to establish how South Sudan was problematized as a case of 'underdevelopment'. The thesis finds that the practices of development organizations, which include using a calculative rationality to gather political support, pursuing a goal of institutional survival and being limited in their space for action, result in their development work in South Sudan being out of touch with the local 'reality' and thus restrained in its ability to create developmental change. Further, it appears that these characteristics may be part of a global development regime of practices, which has not been significantly influenced by the fragile states agenda. |
Subject(s)
Development; South Sudan |
Language
en_US |
Type of publication
Thesis; Globale studier / Global studies - Master thesis |
Repository
Roskilde - Roskilde University Digital Archive (RUDAR)
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