Some studies, however, have shifted the understanding of the function of play from a discourse of development to the exploration of empowering ways that play grants children control over their own decision-making skills.
If so, you are justified: they have occupied much of the discourse on development, charity and philanthropy in Africa.
In fact, the theory of self reliance is located centrally within the discourse of community development and is connected to related concepts like self-help, mutual-help, indigenous participation and rural development.
The interweaving of the two discourses of migration and development, the so-called migration- and development-nexus, is a long discussed topic.
It became clear that, as the Colombian anthropologist Arturo Escobar puts it, "instead of the kingdom of abundance promised by theorists and politicians in the 1950s, the discourse and strategy of development produced its opposite: massive underdevelopment and impoverishment, untold exploitation and oppression".
We first present background information on transfrontier conservation by focusing on the complex role and positioning of 'the local' within (theoretical) transnationalising discourses of conservation and development.
This paper describes and analyses how discourses of conservation and development as well as migrant labour practices can be understood as transnational dynamics that both cement and complicate transnational relations.
"Everyone is able to have a voice, which allows for a more open flow of discourse and development of opinion.
The implementation of cash transfers in developing countries has been hailed as a 'development revolution from the global South', and their growth is largely contextualised by pointing to the changing dynamics of development discourses.
Social movements in developing countries should be at the centre of development discourse, but sadly they are not.
