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Can we ‘transform our world’ without affecting international power relations? A political analysis of the United Nations development agenda

dc.contributor.authorTelleria Zueco, Juan
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-08T07:43:36Z
dc.date.available2024-02-08T07:43:36Z
dc.date.issued2018-05-16
dc.identifier.citationGlobalizations 15(5) : 655-669 (2018)
dc.identifier.issn1474-7731
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/64804
dc.description.abstractThe Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals are the latest instalments of a development endeavour started by the United Nations (UN) after WWII. This article conducts a discourse analysis of the UN development agenda, drawing on Laclau and Mouffe’s post-Marxist thought – which combines post-structuralist discourse analysis and Marxist (Gramscian) political analysis. The essay exposes the ontological tenets underlying the UN’s agenda, and how it conditions the way social issues are understood and addressed. It explains how the agenda conceals the political dimension of development and sustainability debates. Rather than ‘transform our world’, the UN development agenda (1) hinders practices that would truly transform it in terms of more emancipation and justice, and (2) subtly reinforces the power dynamics that sustain the status quo in which underdevelopment, poverty, inequality, and exclusion emerged.es_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the Doctoral Research Staff Improvement Programme of the Education and Culture Department of the Basque Government [grant number POS_2015_1_0058].
dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.publisherRoutledgees_ES
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses_ES
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subjectUnited Nationses_ES
dc.subjectdevelopment goalses_ES
dc.subjectLaclau & Mouffees_ES
dc.subjectpost-Marxismes_ES
dc.subjectantagonismes_ES
dc.subjectpluralismes_ES
dc.titleCan we ‘transform our world’ without affecting international power relations? A political analysis of the United Nations development agendaes_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees_ES
dc.rights.holderIt is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14747731.2018.1467744
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14747731.2018.1467744
dc.departamentoesFilosofíaes_ES
dc.departamentoeuFilosofiaes_ES


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