Decaf empowerment? Post-Washington Consensus development policy, fair trade and Kenya's coffee industry

Pflaeger, Zoe

doi:10.1057/jird.2012.17

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“…However, for Gramsci (1971) hegemony was not static; rather it was the subject of constant volatility and challenge from counter‐hegemonic movements. Imaginaries too are not intrinsically immobile sets of ideas; they are the result of processes of contestation and negotiation at the global, regional, national and local levels (Cox, 1999; Pflaeger, 2013).…”

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Imaginaries of Soy and the Costs of Commodity‐led Development: Reflections from Argentina

Giraudo¹,

Grugel²

2022

Development and Change

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Many developing countries continue to rely on export-oriented growth strategies based on primary commodities, despite the many limitations of such policies. The persistence of this model is inherently related to the dominance of 'commodity imaginaries'. This article focuses on Argentina, an emblematic case of commodity dependency, where the soybean imaginary has dominated for the past 30 years. This imaginary has framed mainstream understandings of Argentina's path to growth and progress, shaped political contestation and ensured that a particular understanding of science and technology sits at the centre of the meaning of national development. In the process, it has transformed the country's geography in ways that normalize soy's dominance and invisibilize people and places located at the margins of the imaginary. The soybean imaginary renders a deeply political project of economic growth as 'common sense'. This article concludes that closer attention to the way national development projects are shaped, consciously and unconsciously, by commodity imaginaries could help explain the puzzle of how national governments can become locked into development choices that are environmentally unsustainable and that reproduce inequalities.

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Section: Understanding the Embeddedness Of Export‐led Development: Co...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Imaginaries of Soy and the Costs of Commodity‐led Development: Reflections from Argentina

Giraudo¹,

Grugel²

2022

Development and Change

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“…In addition, effective and equitable development strategies need to incorporate "a rehabilitative dimension oriented to the past, a resolutive dimension oriented to the present, and a preventive dimension oriented to both the present and future" (Leatherman et al, 1999, page 4), as well as recognising the multiple spheres in which empowerment is required (Scheyvens, 1999). However, a key debate within the development literatures questions the extent to which an instrumentalist approach to empowerment, which equates it with participation, can be a substitute for structural reform (Botchway, 2001); terms such as 'decaf empowerment' and 'reverse empowerment' (Pflaeger, 2013;Ruhiiga, 2013) highlight the challenges posed by a separation of intrinsic and instrumental rationales. The privileging of the latter by the multilateral institutions who dominate development rhetoric as practised arguably perpetuates elite control of development, as opposed to ensuring that individuals take responsibility for their own development (Bartlett, 2008;Ruhiiga, 2013).…”

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“…This paper recognises the complex and contested relationship between empowerment and development, with the latter here understood as, following Sen (1999), those economic, social, and political changes that allow people the choice and opportunity to be active agents. While this paper acknowledges the critiques that have positioned the dominant rhetoric of empowerment as simply legitimising continuing hierarchical forms of development (Pflaeger, 2013), the development landscape is a complex terrain of contestation and resistance, and so this paper aims to explore the potential of this relationship.…”

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Are We There Yet? Exploring Empowerment at the Microscale in the South African Wine Industry

Herman

2014

Environ Plan A

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Empowerment is a standard but ambiguous element of development rhetoric and so, through the socially complex and contested terrain of South Africa, this paper explores its potential to contribute to inclusive development. Investigating micro-level engagements with the national strategy of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) in the South African wine industry highlights the limitations, but also potential, of this single domain approach. However, latent paternalism, e t e hed i te ests a d a dislo ated la k ess ai tai a o ple a ial politi s that shapes oth power relations and the opportunities for transformation within the industry. Nonetheless, while B-BBEE may not, in reality, be broad-based its manifestations are contributing to challenging racist structures and normalising changing attitudes. This paper concludes that, to be transformative, empowerment needs to be re-embedded within South Africa as a multi-scalar, multi-dimensional dialogue and, while recognising the continuation of structural constraints, positions the local as the critical scale at which to initiate broader social change.

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Decaf empowerment? Post-Washington Consensus development policy, fair trade and Kenya's coffee industry

Cited by 2 publications

References 33 publications

Imaginaries of Soy and the Costs of Commodity‐led Development: Reflections from Argentina

Imaginaries of Soy and the Costs of Commodity‐led Development: Reflections from Argentina

Are We There Yet? Exploring Empowerment at the Microscale in the South African Wine Industry

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