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A Sociological Understanding of Neoliberal Discourses of Development

In this article, the author calls for a sociological understanding of neoliberal discourses of development and underdevelopment. The author criticizes the idea that the utterance of discourse is different than other social practices and also warns against understanding discourses solely as acts of deception. Using a critical stance, the author shows how ideologies are giving shape to development projects and how social change is effectively conducted through acts of communication. The author proposes different ways to analyze various discourses of neoliberal development. Giving several examples from the literature, he shows how discourse analysts have examined many aspects of neoliberal discourses of development and social change. Amongst ways to understand discourses of development the author presents the following: studying ethnical and racial biases, examining discourses as storytelling, looking at their specific stylistic codes, understanding discourses as social interaction and how they produce concerted actions, seeing them as fluxes and containers of ideas, criticizing their justification of social hierarchy and their reinforcing of social domination. Also are presented elements of examining statistics, machines and artefacts as elements of neoliberal discourses. The author calls for more militant uses of discourse analysis. In conclusion, the author also raises some methodological, ethical and epistemological issues of the analysis of discourses.

Publication available at https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02046915/document

 

Current and Upcoming Challenges in South-South Cooperation in the field of Social Statistics

(with Valérie La France-Moreau)

This article proposes to reflect on how a field of technical expertise is affected and could possibly be transformed through South-South cooperation. This article and its conclusions are based on literature review and our own research. Our research on the production, the analysis and the dissemination of social development statistics (education, health and poverty alleviation) has been conducted in Western and North Africa as well as South East Asia and Central America. We interviewed public servants from government agencies, for international organisation, from non-governmental organizations as well as specialists from the academia. Our goal is to reflect on South-South cooperation as a possible tool for emancipation and criticism of the hegemony of “Northern” countries in international organization and knowledge production. By examining cooperative praxis in these areas we attempt to yield information on the strategies used to claim ownership of the assessment methods and knowledge pertaining to the ideological dimensions of development. We conclude by saying that current South-South cooperation in the field of social statistics is not fully able to challenge global statistics regime and its inherent ideological flaws.

Publication available at: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02046911/document

Le professeur della Faille présente ses travaux à Berlin

Source: https://uqo.ca/nouvelles/22018

À l’invitation de la Fondation Humboldt Forum (Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss) et de l’Office allemand d’échanges universitaires (DAAD – Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), le professeur Dimitri della Faille de l’UQO et son collègue Cedrik Fermont étaient à Berlin en Allemagne le 19 août 2018 pour présenter un forum de discussion ainsi qu’une série de concerts de musique numérique dont ils étaient commissaires invités.

Il s’agissait de réfléchir sur la relation entre l’histoire de la musique contemporaine électronique en Asie du Sud-est et les dimensions de colonialisme et de discrimination de genre à l’égard des femmes. À l’occasion de cet événement présenté devant une salle comble, la performance du professeur della Faille en collaboration avec l’artiste vietnamienne Lương Huệ Trinh a été enregistrée pour ensuite être diffusée sur la radio nationale allemande consacrée à la culture, Deutschlandfunk Kultur (DKultur).

La Fondation Humboldt Forum est une importante fondation publique du Gouvernement allemand qui soutient la recherche sur la diversité culturelle à l’échelle mondiale dans toute sa complexité. Le DAAD est la plus importante organisation allemande de soutien à la coopération internationale dans le milieu académique.

C’était tout un honneur pour le professeur Dimitri della Faille et Cedrik Fermont qui ont, au cours de l’année 2018, présenté leurs recherches sur la musique bruitiste en Asie du Sud-est dans de nombreux pays d’Europe, d’Asie et d’Amérique du nord.