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dc.contributor.authorEyben, Rosalind
dc.date.accessioned2012-11-29T12:09:32Z
dc.date.available2012-11-29T12:09:32Z
dc.date.issued2010-06
dc.identifier.citationEyben, R. (2010). Hiding relations: the irony of ‘effective aid’. European Journal of Development Research, 22(3), 382-397.en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/2028
dc.description.abstractThe present vogue of ‘managing for development results’ is an expression of a historically dominant mode of thought in international aid – ‘substantialism’ – which sees the world primarily in terms of ‘entities’ such as ‘poverty’, ‘basic needs’, ‘rights’, ‘women’, or ‘results’. Another important mode of thought, ‘relationalism’ – in association more generally with ideas of process and complexity – appears to be absent in the thinking of aid institutions. Drawing on my own experiences of working with the UK Department for International Development (DFID), I illustrate how despite formally subscribing to the institution’s substantialist view of the world, some staff are ‘closet relationists’, behaving according to one mode of thought while officially framing their action in terms of the other, more orthodox mode. In so doing, they may be unwittingly keeping international aid sufficiently viable - by the apparent proof of the efficacy of results-based management - to enable the institution as a whole to maintain its substantialist imaginary.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillanen_GB
dc.rightsThis is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in THE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH. The definitive publisher-authenticated version [Eyben, R. (2010). Hiding relations: the irony of ‘effective aid’. European Journal of Development Research, 22(3), 382-397] is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/ejdr.2010.10en_GB
dc.rights.urihttp://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdfen_GB
dc.subjectAiden_GB
dc.titleHiding Relationsen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.identifier.externalurihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1057/ejdr.2010.10en_GB


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