Juan Telleria
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692913 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juan Telleria |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juan |
| FAMILY NAME | Telleria |
| SIGNATURE | TELLERIA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Basque Country |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7122-435X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Temporality in the United Nations 2030 Agenda
Time is a constitutive element of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the United Nations (UN). This article analyses how the 2030 Agenda articulates time – i.e. how its discourse connects past, present and future. This analysis shows how the agenda partially breaks with the 19 th -century evolutionist assumptions that pervaded previous UN development policies and strategies. On the one hand, the 2030 Agenda implicitly assumes that a hi…
Defining and Measuring Human Development
Diversity vs the 2030 agenda. A deconstructive reading of the United Nations agenda for sustainable development
This article analyses the marginal position cultural diversity is granted in the United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development. Drawing on the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida, it analyses and deconstructs the ontological assumptions of the UN's discourse. The inquiry shows that the ontological structure of the UN's agenda creates an essentialist and teleological understanding of history that privileges universality – unity – at t…
Universal politics
A book that analyses global issues from the perspective of a negative universality––where the only universal characteristic in every particularity is conceptualized in terms of ‘lack of’ and ‘impossibility of’––is both bold and necessary. It is bold because a positive understanding of universalism––based on the assumption that a positive element exists in every particularity that enables the construction of universal political projects––has domin…
The fantasmatic narrative of ‘sustainable development’. A political analysis of the 2030 Global Development Agenda
The article offers a critical analysis of the United Nations 2030 Global Development Agenda, whose stated aim is to "transform the world" in such a way that no one is left behind. Drawing on post-Marxist theory, we argue that the 2030 Global Development Agenda is a fantasmatic narrative seeking to conceal the conflictual causes and the antagonistic origins of global development and sustainability issues. Within this fantasmatic narrative, ‘sustai…
Deconstructing Human Development
This book provides a critical deconstruction of the human development framework promoted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990. Taking the Human Development Reports of the UNDP as its starting point for reflection, this book investigates the construction of this framework as well as its political function since the end of the Cold War. The book argues that the UNDP’s discourse on development relies on essentialist philosop…
Development and Participation
Multipolar Globalization
"Multipolar Globalization: Emerging Economies and Development." The Journal of Development Studies, 54(12), pp. 2248–2249
Human Development and Global Institutions
Human Development and Global Institutions: Evolution, Impact, Reform." Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 19(3), pp. 419–420
Can we ‘transform our world’ without affecting international power relations? A political analysis of the United Nations development agenda
The Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals are the latest instalments of a development endeavour started by the United Nations (UN) after WWII. This article conducts a discourse analysis of the UN development agenda, drawing on Laclau and Mouffe’s post-Marxist thought – which combines post-structuralist discourse analysis and Marxist (Gramscian) political analysis. The essay exposes the ontological tenets underlying the UN…
Power relations? What power relations? The de-politicising conceptualisation of development of the UNDP
The UN′s Sustainable Development Goals agenda points far into 2030, which shows that its post-war development endeavour is not functioning effectively. This article implements a discourse analysis of the UN Development Programme′s (UNDP) Human Development Reports (HDR) and exposes their internal contradictions. This analysis enables a critical reflection on the UNDP′s political position: its reports conceal the political causes of underdevelopmen…
What Does Culture Mean for the UNDP
‘Culture’ is one of those concepts so widely used that it tends to fall into ambiguity and vagueness. Institutions dealing with power use them quite often in order to produce profuse, but somehow vacuous, discourses. That would be the case of the influential Human Development Reports of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). After evidencing there is not a clear, plain, unitary idea of what ‘culture’ means in these yearly published report…
Seguimos hablando de desarrollo? El paradigma del desarrollo humano del PNUD como saber-poder
A pesar del fracaso de los Objetivos del Desarrollo del Milenio, la agenda de la ONU posterior al 2015 invita a seguir hablando de desarrollo. Desde esta constatación, este artículo propone un análisis crítico del paradigma del desarrollo humano del PNUD. El objetivo es mostrar cómo las asunciones implícitas de este paradigma, en vez de promover el cambio, refuerzan el statu quo. El discurso del PNUD es mostrado como una dinámica de saber-poder f…
The fantasmatic narrative of ‘sustainable development’. A political analysis of the 2030 Global Development Agenda
The article offers a critical analysis of the United Nations 2030 Global Development Agenda, whose stated aim is to "transform the world" in such a way that no one is left behind. Drawing on post-Marxist theory, we argue that the 2030 Global Development Agenda is a fantasmatic narrative seeking to conceal the conflictual causes and the antagonistic origins of global development and sustainability issues. Within this fantasmatic narrative, ‘sustai…
Power relations? What power relations? The de-politicising conceptualisation of development of the UNDP
The UN′s Sustainable Development Goals agenda points far into 2030, which shows that its post-war development endeavour is not functioning effectively. This article implements a discourse analysis of the UN Development Programme′s (UNDP) Human Development Reports (HDR) and exposes their internal contradictions. This analysis enables a critical reflection on the UNDP′s political position: its reports conceal the political causes of underdevelopmen…
Development and Participation
Can we ‘transform our world’ without affecting international power relations? A political analysis of the United Nations development agenda
The Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals are the latest instalments of a development endeavour started by the United Nations (UN) after WWII. This article conducts a discourse analysis of the UN development agenda, drawing on Laclau and Mouffe’s post-Marxist thought – which combines post-structuralist discourse analysis and Marxist (Gramscian) political analysis. The essay exposes the ontological tenets underlying the UN…
Diversity vs the 2030 agenda. A deconstructive reading of the United Nations agenda for sustainable development
This article analyses the marginal position cultural diversity is granted in the United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development. Drawing on the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida, it analyses and deconstructs the ontological assumptions of the UN's discourse. The inquiry shows that the ontological structure of the UN's agenda creates an essentialist and teleological understanding of history that privileges universality – unity – at t…
Defining and Measuring Human Development
What Does Culture Mean for the UNDP
‘Culture’ is one of those concepts so widely used that it tends to fall into ambiguity and vagueness. Institutions dealing with power use them quite often in order to produce profuse, but somehow vacuous, discourses. That would be the case of the influential Human Development Reports of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). After evidencing there is not a clear, plain, unitary idea of what ‘culture’ means in these yearly published report…
Seguimos hablando de desarrollo? El paradigma del desarrollo humano del PNUD como saber-poder
A pesar del fracaso de los Objetivos del Desarrollo del Milenio, la agenda de la ONU posterior al 2015 invita a seguir hablando de desarrollo. Desde esta constatación, este artículo propone un análisis crítico del paradigma del desarrollo humano del PNUD. El objetivo es mostrar cómo las asunciones implícitas de este paradigma, en vez de promover el cambio, refuerzan el statu quo. El discurso del PNUD es mostrado como una dinámica de saber-poder f…
Power relations? What power relations? The de-politicising conceptualisation of development of the UNDP
The UN′s Sustainable Development Goals agenda points far into 2030, which shows that its post-war development endeavour is not functioning effectively. This article implements a discourse analysis of the UN Development Programme′s (UNDP) Human Development Reports (HDR) and exposes their internal contradictions. This analysis enables a critical reflection on the UNDP′s political position: its reports conceal the political causes of underdevelopmen…
Multipolar Globalization
"Multipolar Globalization: Emerging Economies and Development." The Journal of Development Studies, 54(12), pp. 2248–2249
Human Development and Global Institutions
Human Development and Global Institutions: Evolution, Impact, Reform." Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 19(3), pp. 419–420
Can we ‘transform our world’ without affecting international power relations? A political analysis of the United Nations development agenda
The Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals are the latest instalments of a development endeavour started by the United Nations (UN) after WWII. This article conducts a discourse analysis of the UN development agenda, drawing on Laclau and Mouffe’s post-Marxist thought – which combines post-structuralist discourse analysis and Marxist (Gramscian) political analysis. The essay exposes the ontological tenets underlying the UN…
Deconstructing Human Development
This book provides a critical deconstruction of the human development framework promoted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990. Taking the Human Development Reports of the UNDP as its starting point for reflection, this book investigates the construction of this framework as well as its political function since the end of the Cold War. The book argues that the UNDP’s discourse on development relies on essentialist philosop…
Development and Participation
The fantasmatic narrative of ‘sustainable development’. A political analysis of the 2030 Global Development Agenda
The article offers a critical analysis of the United Nations 2030 Global Development Agenda, whose stated aim is to "transform the world" in such a way that no one is left behind. Drawing on post-Marxist theory, we argue that the 2030 Global Development Agenda is a fantasmatic narrative seeking to conceal the conflictual causes and the antagonistic origins of global development and sustainability issues. Within this fantasmatic narrative, ‘sustai…
Defining and Measuring Human Development
Diversity vs the 2030 agenda. A deconstructive reading of the United Nations agenda for sustainable development
This article analyses the marginal position cultural diversity is granted in the United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development. Drawing on the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida, it analyses and deconstructs the ontological assumptions of the UN's discourse. The inquiry shows that the ontological structure of the UN's agenda creates an essentialist and teleological understanding of history that privileges universality – unity – at t…
Universal politics
A book that analyses global issues from the perspective of a negative universality––where the only universal characteristic in every particularity is conceptualized in terms of ‘lack of’ and ‘impossibility of’––is both bold and necessary. It is bold because a positive understanding of universalism––based on the assumption that a positive element exists in every particularity that enables the construction of universal political projects––has domin…
Temporality in the United Nations 2030 Agenda
Time is a constitutive element of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the United Nations (UN). This article analyses how the 2030 Agenda articulates time – i.e. how its discourse connects past, present and future. This analysis shows how the agenda partially breaks with the 19 th -century evolutionist assumptions that pervaded previous UN development policies and strategies. On the one hand, the 2030 Agenda implicitly assumes that a hi…
Political science (11 works) · International Development and Aid (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Human Rights and Development (5 works) · Power (physics (4 works) · Social science (4 works)