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- Title
Các chủ thể phát triển, khách thể phát triển và những hình thức phát triển theo nghĩa "ngoại động từ" và "nội động từ"
- Authors
Salemink, Oscar
- Abstract
Regardless of whether cultural resources are conceptualized as objectified in terms of "culture" or as embodied in human beings cultural resources are arguably located in people as subjects of culture. In my view, this implies that a vision of sustainable development that is predicated on cultural resources should place the subjects of culture first, to the point that these subjects of culture are identical with the subjects of development. This idea is rooted in a distinction (in the English language) between the verb "to develop" as transitive and as intransitive. Whereas in past linguistic practice, "to develop" was intransitive-i.e. had no grammatical object-with the post-World War II emergence of the modern notion of development as we know it now "to develop" became transitive meaning that it acquired an object. In other words, it became possible to develop something or somebody (singular or plural), resulting in a radical separation between the subjects of development (usually development donors, Global North, development organizations, states) and the objects of development (usually but not exhaustively all sorts of "target groups" like the poor ethnic and other minorities, women and children, farmers, but also entire states in the Global South), resulting in the instrumentalization of the latter in the development process. From this point of departure, I offer a brief overview of past and present development practice and discourse with partial reference to Vietnam, and offer some suggestions how development objects could turn into development subjects by viewing them as embodied cultural resources-hence as cultural agents in their own right-and as subjects of their own development.
- Publication
Vietnam Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 2017, Vol 3, Issue 6, p663
- ISSN
2354-1172
- Publication type
Article