Depoliticization, instrumentalization and legitimacy of Czech development cooperation: A case of imposed altruism?

Ondřej Horký ()
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Ondřej Horký: Institute of International Relations, Prague, Czech Republic

Ethics and Economics, 2011, vol. 8, issue 1, 12

Abstract: This paper draws on James Ferguson’s concept of ‘anti-politics machine’ and Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of illusio to explore the nature of the international development cooperation programmes financed by the Czech government. It argues that its character as an ‘anti-politics machine’ turns development into a highly technical issue and dismisses essential political questions of global equity and policy coherence from the public debate. Moreover, the actors in the field of development cooperation are held in an illusio: they are required to appear as altruistic, which obscures their particular interests. This instrumentalization of development aid contributes to further isolation of the Czech development constituency and raises fundamental questions for the democratic legitimacy of development cooperation.

Keywords: Development cooperation; depoliticization; legitimacy; anti-politics machine; illusio; Czech Republic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: P45 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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