Language, power and multilateral trade negotiations

Wilkinson, Rorden

doi:10.1080/09692290802587734

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“…Rather than treating power in the WTO system in only compulsory or institutional terms, this article seeks to specify how power also has a 'productive' quality through which subjects and objects are shaped through ongoing processes of signification, that is, the very social construction of meaning (Barnett and Duvall 2005). If power is only viewed as a notion about repression, one may miss how it can also be understood as a productive force which shapes knowledge and discourse, a point of particular relevance when considering struggles over trade concepts and classifications (Adler and Bernstein 2005;Lang 2009;Wilkinson 2009). Indeed, this particular stress on understanding how frames are constructed and normalised will prove valuable in grasping how the definition of the WCA cotton problem changed, the details of which we can now turn to.…”

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The Competing Kings of Cotton: (Re)framing the WTO African Cotton Initiative

Eagleton-Pierce

2012

New Political Economy

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confidence: 98%

The Competing Kings of Cotton: (Re)framing the WTO African Cotton Initiative

Eagleton-Pierce

2012

New Political Economy

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“…Ces chercheurs se sont entre autres consacrés à l'étude de la dépolitisation du discours des institutions multilatérales. Sous l'angle d'une analyse du discours politique, plusieurs auteurs ont, par exemple, examiné les documents produits par l'ONU (Duchêne, 2004 ;Maingueneau, 2002 ;Perrot, 2001), par la Banque mondiale (Harriss, 2001 ;Lautier, 2002 ;Mestrum, 2008 ;Rist, 2002), ou encore par l'Organisation mondiale du commerce (Shaffer, 2001 ;Siroux, 2008 ;Wilkinson, 2009). Ces auteurs explorent les thématiques des transformations sociales, de la régulation politique et du développement économique et social à partir d'une analyse de la production textuelle.…”

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Éléments de polémique dans les manuels techniques d’assistance à la production de statistiques sociales pour le développement

Faille

2012

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Les statistiques sociales occupent une place fondamentale dans les débats à l’égard des problèmes du sous-développement et justifient la mise en oeuvre de programmes pour remédier à ces mêmes problèmes. Ainsi, les organisations multilatérales ont un important besoin de statistiques pour mesurer, classer et comparer de multiples aspects de la vie sociale tels par exemple la santé, l’éducation et la pauvreté. Pour produire ces statistiques, elles s’appuient sur l’expertise d’agences nationales. Cet article explore les aspects polémiques d’un discours expert à partir de l’analyse d’un corpus récent d’une dizaine de manuels techniques produits par diverses organisations multilatérales telles que l’OCDE, la Banque mondiale, l’OMS, le PNUD et l’UNESCO. L’analyse de la représentation de la prise de décision, de la délibération, des débats, des controverses et des conflits révèle que ces manuels ne sont pas exempts de polémiques tant sur le plan méthodologique et scientifique que micro et macro politique.Social statistics are fundamental in discussions regarding the problems of underdevelopment and justify the implementation of programs to address these same issues. Thus, multilateral organizations have a strong need for statistics to measure, classify and compare multiple aspects of social life such as health, education and poverty. To produce these statistics, they rely on the expertise of national agencies. This article explores the controversial aspects of expert discourse by analysing a recent corpus of ten technical manuals produced by various multilateral organizations like the OECD, the World Bank, WHO, UNDP and Unesco. The analysis of the representation of decision-making, deliberation, debate, controversy and conflict reveals that these manuals are not free of controversy on both methodological and scientific as well as on micro and macro policy levels.Las estadísticas sociales ocupan un lugar fundamental en los debates relacionados con los problemas de subdesarrollo, y justifican la implementación de programas para remediar estos problemas. De esta manera, las organizaciones multilaterales requieren de una gran necesidad de estadísticas para medir, clasificar y comparar múltiples aspectos de la vida social tales como, por ejemplo, la salud, la educación y la pobreza. La producción de estas estadísticas se apoya en la experiencia de agencias nacionales. Éste artículo explora los aspectos polémicos de un discurso de expertos a partir del análisis de un corpus reciente de una decena de manuales técnicos producidos por diversas organizaciones multilaterales tales como la OCDE, el Banco Mundial, la OMS, el PNUD y la Unesco. El análisis de la representación de la toma de decisiones, la deliberación, los debates, las controversias y los conflictos, revela que estos manuales no están exentos de polémicas tanto a nivel metodológico y científico como a nivel de micro y macro políticas

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“…In contrast, we suggest an alternative reading of smallness in which smallness is understood as a (set of) discourse(s) rather than as a material 'fact' or analytical category. For, if we accept that 'words … don't just describe the world, they actually help make the world', 24 then the language of smallness can be seen to make the world of small states. As we explore below, the dominant language is one of vulnerability and weakness.…”

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Small State Discourses in the International Political Economy

Lee

Smith

2010

Third World Quarterly

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This article supports growing calls to 'take small states seriously' in the international political economy but questions prevailing interpretations that 'smallness' entails inherent qualities that create unique constraints on, and opportunities for, small states.Instead, we argue that discourses surrounding the 'inherent vulnerability' of small states, especially developing and less-developed states, may produce the very outcomes that are attributed to state size itself. By presenting small states as a 'problem' to be 'solved', vulnerability discourses divert attention away from the existence of unequal power structures that, far from being the 'natural' result of smallness, are in fact contingent and politically contested. The article then explores these themes empirically through discussion of small developing and less-developed states in the Commonwealth and the World Trade Organisation (WTO), considering in particular how smallness has variously been articulated in terms of what small states either cannot or will not do.

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Language, power and multilateral trade negotiations

Cited by 44 publications

References 14 publications

The Competing Kings of Cotton: (Re)framing the WTO African Cotton Initiative

The Competing Kings of Cotton: (Re)framing the WTO African Cotton Initiative

Éléments de polémique dans les manuels techniques d’assistance à la production de statistiques sociales pour le développement

Small State Discourses in the International Political Economy

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