- Title
- Responding to poverty in the light of the post-development debate: Some insights from the NGO Enda Graf Sahel
- Creator
- Matthews, Sally
- Date Issued
- 2016
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142487
- Identifier
- vital:38084
- Identifier
- https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ad/article/view/135799
- Description
- How can we take on board the many valuable insights of post-development theory without seeming to advocate indifference and inaction in the face of the misery that many people in the world experience daily? In this paper, I provide a partial response to this question. I begin by looking at some of the alternative strategies offered in post-development literature and set out to show that while there are several problems with these alternatives, to read post-development theory as advocating indifference or inaction is to read it uncharitably. Secondly, I draw on the experiences of the non-governmental organisation (NGO) Enda Graf Sahel in Dakar, Senegal to suggest some ways in which the insights of post-development theory, or some versions of post-development theory, can be taken into consideration without leading to inaction or indifference in the face of the suffering of those who occupy a less advantaged position in contemporary relations of power and privilege.
- Format
- 21 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Africa development
- Relation
- Matthews, S., 2006. Responding to poverty in the light of the post-development debate: Some insights from the NGO Enda Graf Sahel. Africa development, 31(4), pp.52-72.
- Relation
- Africa development volume 31 number 4 52 72 May 2016 0850-3907
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