- Title
- The role of the privileged in responding to poverty: perspectives emerging from the post-development debate
- Creator
- Matthews, Sally
- Date Issued
- 2008
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142476
- Identifier
- vital:38083
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/01436590802201022
- Description
- The debate between post-development theorists and their critics has raised several important questions, one of them being the question of how relatively privileged people may respond meaningfully to poverty while not perpetuating the flaws of past development practice. In this article I build upon the ideas of several contributors to the post-development debate in order to suggest three ways in which we who are relatively privileged may play a role in struggles against poverty. I argue that we can work to rethink the concepts informing development practice; that we may find ways to give our support to popular initiatives, and that there are aspects of our own societies which we may change in solidarity with the struggles of distant others.
- Format
- 15 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Third World Quarterly
- Relation
- Matthews, S., 2008. The Role of the Privileged in Responding to Poverty: perspectives emerging from the post-development debate. Third World Quarterly, 29(6), pp.1035-1049.
- Relation
- Third World Quarterly volume 29 number 6 1035 1049 July 2008
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