Empowering People? World Vision & ‘Transformatory Development’ in Tanzania
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11904243 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim Kelsall (corresponding author), Claire Mercer (0000-0002-7628-5984) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 96 |
| Publication date | 2003-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of African Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-6244 • E-ISSN: 1740-1720 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03056244.2003.9693501 |
| OpenAlex | W2043504292 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 4 |
Ideas of participatory development and empowerment have become central to contemporary development discourse. This article identifies two axes of tension within this discourse. First is the disturbing thought that by empowering a ‘community’ a development project can disempower groups or individuals within that community. Second is the paradox whereby external agents are perceived as necessary to install internal desires and capacities for individual and community autonomy. The article presents empirical data from research into two projects by the NGO World Vision in northeast Tanzania. The aim is to show that the dilemmas of development in practice turn around these axis of tension, as the attempts to empower the ‘community’ benefit disproportionately an elite – the idea of development as ‘empowerment’ inserted into the community from the outside
Autonomy · Citizen journalism · Community development · Economic growth · Economics · Elite · Empowerment · Participatory development · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Tanzania · Gender Studies · International Development and Aid · Law · Religion, Society, and Development · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
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| Citations per year | 0.9 |
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| Citation span | 2005 - 2025 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |