Venugopal, Rajesh ORCID: 0000-0002-7498-7712
(2018)
Ineptitude, ignorance, or intent: the social construction of failure in development.
World Development, 106.
238 - 247.
ISSN 0305-750X
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Abstract
This paper explores the social construction of failure in development policy and academic narratives. Talk of failure is commonplace in development, and this paper seeks to use that as a heuristic to understand what that it signifies beyond face value. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary texts to provide illustrative evidence, the paper explores how failure is constructed, and advances a three-fold typology of failures that vary in terms of their positionality, the critical variables they identify as responsible, their epistemological stance, and the importance they accord to politics.
Item Type: | Article |
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Official URL: | https://www.journals.elsevier.com/world-developmen... |
Additional Information: | © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. |
Divisions: | International Development |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
Date Deposited: | 23 Feb 2018 14:28 |
Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2024 18:54 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/86847 |
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