MAKING THE CASE: AN ACTOR-NETWORK APPROACH TO RHETORIC IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT

This paper examines the shifts in language associated with the rise and decline of dominant development models. It draws on Bruno Latours approach to rhetoric to analyze how actors in development policy net- works use language strategically in order to persuade other actors that their development na...

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Autor principal: Gerad Middendorf
Formato: Artículo científico
Publicado: Universidad del Norte 2013
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Sociología
Development
language of development
Latour
Acceso en línea:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=26828939009
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=co/co-015&d=26828939009oai
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Development
language of development
Latour
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Development
language of development
Latour
Gerad Middendorf
MAKING THE CASE: AN ACTOR-NETWORK APPROACH TO RHETORIC IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
topic_facet Sociología
Development
language of development
Latour
description This paper examines the shifts in language associated with the rise and decline of dominant development models. It draws on Bruno Latours approach to rhetoric to analyze how actors in development policy net- works use language strategically in order to persuade other actors that their development narrative is the most plausible narrative possible. This study focuses on a particular time period the 1980s-1990s in which we saw the transition to the neoliberal model. First, the annual reports of the Inter-American Development Bank and other key actors are systematically analyzed to understand the shift in language associated with development models. Then, analysis of interview data shows how individual actors in- terpret and translate policy change in everyday language. What emerges is a circulation process, in which development language is appropriated by actors in policy networks and refashioned to help each actor make the case in order to advance their interests. A strength of the Latourian approach is that it helps us to reveal the strategic discursive practices of authors (scientists, policy makers, researchers). The paper attempts to extend actor-network analysis beyond science studies, where it has been most fully developed, into development studies where it has thus far received relatively less attention.
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title MAKING THE CASE: AN ACTOR-NETWORK APPROACH TO RHETORIC IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
title_short MAKING THE CASE: AN ACTOR-NETWORK APPROACH TO RHETORIC IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
title_full MAKING THE CASE: AN ACTOR-NETWORK APPROACH TO RHETORIC IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
title_fullStr MAKING THE CASE: AN ACTOR-NETWORK APPROACH TO RHETORIC IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
title_full_unstemmed MAKING THE CASE: AN ACTOR-NETWORK APPROACH TO RHETORIC IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
title_sort making the case: an actor-network approach to rhetoric in agricultural development
publisher Universidad del Norte
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