Global Poverty: Global Governance and Poor People in the Post-2015 Era

2009

The purpose of my paper is to show that modernist social sciences have been directly involved in the construction and reproduction of poverty, and in the "conduct of conduct" of the scientifically labeled poor or the produced and reproduced "object" of poverty experts.

In response to the article by Horner and Hulme which opens this Debate section , this contribution argues that while the call for a shift from international to global development by Horner and Hulme is justified, their approach is confined to what has been called traditional or problem-solving theory. On the levels of concepts, theory and metatheory, it fails to transcend orthodox approaches in development theory. Concerning concepts, it employs the traditional concept of 'development' without recognizing its ambiguity, referring at different times to social change, positive social change or social change according to the European model. Concerning theory, it is based on the nation state as a unit of analysis, not differentiating between different socioeconomic groups or classes, and neglects questions of power. Concerning metatheory, its knowledge interest, epistemology and methodology also remain within orthodox boundaries, for example reproducing the measurement of aggregate per capita income and its evaluation as progress. In the last section of this article, the author presents an outline sketch for a more critical theory of 'development'.

Ius Humani. Law Journal, 2016

En las últimas décadas, la proliferación de un “tercer sector” conformado por organizaciones no gubernamentales y sin fines de lucro que trascienden las fronteras ha propiciado una reformulación del concepto de sociedad civil. Una serie de estudios contemporáneos sostienen que la sociedad civil estado-céntrica se está volviendo internacional, transnacional o global. Si la aparición de una esfera autónoma de ciudadanos universales no es más que la proyección de un ideal cosmopolita o un fenómeno real es una fuente de controversias. El presente ensayo problematiza la idea de una sociedad civil global a través de una valoración de su utilidad descriptiva y sus implicaciones normativas. En base a un enfoque constructivista, el artículo propone el término “infraestructura ideacional” para analizar sus fundamentos discursivos e interpretativos. El análisis concluye que la sociedad civil global es una reificación que tiene sus raíces en el discurso de los derechos humanos como un ideal con...

Meridiano 47 Journal of Global Studies, 2020

Order and the future of humanity are intertwined with aspirations and achievements related to 17 global goals charted in boxes regarding multiple issue-areas of global politics. The so called 2030 Agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) had changed the narrative of global development putting into motion some transformations in the multiple existing dimensions of our global reality, but also letting some questions behind. The main objective of this article is to characterize the 2030 international order from a Global South stance, presenting the state of the art on the debate regarding the Agenda 2030 and the SDGs. Methodologically, it draws from a hybrid approach on historical international relations, qualitative content analysis (QCA) and critical discourse analysis (CDA). The main argument is that a new international order called the 2030 international order seems to be under construction. The idea is to produce a text of reference to discuss the design of international order in the 21 st Century; the theoretical and conceptual disputes on multiple themes associated with the 17 SDGs; and looking through the architectural foundations of SDG global politics, such as territorialization, financing, indicators, interactions and synergies and, acceleration actions. Resumo A ordem e o futuro da humanidade estão entrelaçados com aspirações e realizações relacionadas a 17 objetivos globais apresentados em caixas, referentes a várias áreas temáticas da política global. A chamada Agenda 2030 dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS) alterou as narrativas sobre desenvolvimento global, colocando em movimento algumas transformações nas múltiplas dimensões existentes de nossa realidade global, mas também abandonando algumas questões para trás. O principal objetivo deste artigo é caracterizar a ordem internacional 2030 a partir de uma visão do Sul Global, apresentando o estado da arte no debate sobre a Agenda 2030 e os ODS. Metodologicamente, parte de uma abordagem híbrida sobre relações internacionais históricas, análise qualitativa de conteúdo (QCA) e análise crítica do discurso (CDA). O argumento principal é que uma nova ordem internacional chamada ordem internacional 2030 parece estar em construção. A ideia é produzir um texto de referência para discutir o desenho da ordem internacional no século 21; as disputas teóricas e

Third World Quarterly, 2014

The current international development discourse focuses much on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as part of a global social contract in support of international cooperation and governance with the debate on the post-MDGs and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicating a shift. They are at least in part addressing developmental constraints the world is confronted with as a result of the effects the dominant growth models had on the limited resources and global goods. Rio+20 was a forum, which brought to the fore the conflicting issues at stake and the challenges for any development paradigm seeking to enhance global justice and equality. This article explores the discrepancies between dominant paradigms cultivated in official discourses on the one hand and alternatives for another development presented as anti-hegemonic counter-models for survival strategies. It considers the role of civil society agencies and scholar activists in development studies.

Encartes, 2018

Volver a hacer un ejercicio de reinterpretación de la historia de la antropología para hablar de su presente y futuro solo se explica por las perspectivas programáticas que cada cual de nosotros tiene. Quiero dejar claro desde el principio que veo una crisis internacional de la relevancia de la antropología como disciplina académica, una crisis de mayor o menor intensidad de acuerdo con el país en que nos fijemos. En nombre de la practicalidad o de la importancia de diversos tipos de conocimiento para el “desarrollo”, en algunos lugares la sacan de los currículos, en otros intentan cerrar cursos o entonces disminuyen drásticamente los financiamientos. Pienso, pero no exclusivamente, en casos recientes en el Reino Unido, en Australia, Japón y Colombia. Hay una necesidad de replantear nuestro lugar vis-à-vis las otras disciplinas y la sociedad.