Poverty Power and Partnerships in Educational Development

A post-victimology perspective

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11919084
AutoresCatherine Odora Hoppers (0000-0001-5324-7371, autor correspondente), Catherine A Odora Hoppers
Ano2001
Volume31
Fascículo1
Páginas21-38
Data de publicação2001-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCompare A Journal of Comparative and International Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0305-7925 • E-ISSN: 1469-3623
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03057920020030144
OpenAlexW2004304384
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas14

An end-of-century critique of the political and economic assumptions underlying five decades of international development assistance conceives it as a system of structural violence that prevented the people of Africa from realising post-colonial self-reliance. New impoverishment through neo-liberal democratisation and the conditionalities attached to structural adjustment, is reducing the quality of life through cuts in hard won economic, social and educational opportunity and their liberatory potential. Moving beyond schooling for sub-ordinate roles in the new society is the current conceptualisation of humans as depoliticised resources interfacing the machines of capitalist enterprise. This links to aid inspired capacity-building initiatives, which undermine the abilities of organisations and states to sustain essential routines and initiate indigenous innovation. At the same time, the victims of colonial and neo-colonial oppression, particularly women and peasants, as victims of other people's progess and mal-development, have unparalled holistic and ecological knowledge of what the production and protection of life is all about. From a post-victimology perspective, theirs are the new voices for liberation and transformation

Colonialism · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental ethics · Indigenous · Oppression · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Sociology · Structural violence · African cultural and philosophical studies · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Law · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare