‘Power’ in ‘Empowerment’: A Case Study of Constructing a Text against the Mainstream

Rosalind Eyben
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Rosalind Eyben: Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK

The European Journal of Development Research, 2015, vol. 27, issue 5, 825 pages

Abstract: This article contributes to making visible the actors and the spaces in which discourses of aid and development are constructed and contested. I take as a case study a two-year process of the production of texts on ‘empowerment’ involving a group of officials from the head offices of bilateral and multilateral agencies comprising a ‘task team’ in the OECD DAC – the ‘donors’ club’. I look at how those members of the task team who were committed to development aid in support of social transformation tried to put ‘power’ back into ‘empowerment’ and explore how and why they succeeded in producing a surprisingly radical text in the current global political environment of development co-operation.

Date: 2015
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