Abstract
This chapter draws together lessons learned from research conducted in Senegal in 2007-2008. The research sought to explore how power is exercised through relations of development cooperation and coordinates peoples’ activities at various sites within networks of international, regional and local institutions and actors. More specifically, it aimed to provide a concrete illustration of how development practice – imbued with an institutionalised model of operation, largely established extra-locally and disembedded from the context where the development is actually being “done” – has increasingly homogenised its norms and forms of practice. Drawing on these examples of how power has coordinated peoples’ activities and aligned their practices with institutionalised norms, the study reflected upon the ways that institutions and collectives in the South might draw upon these experiences to “speak back” to the development process, and the conditions and processes that enabled or constrained them in doing so.
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Harvey, B. (2011). Development Cooperation and Learning from Power in Senegal. In: Kapoor, D. (eds) Critical Perspectives on Neoliberal Globalization, Development and Education in Africa and Asia. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-561-1_12
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