The Pontis Foundation: Partly disrupting the development discourse through partnership
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08039410.2015.1018312?journalCode=sfds20" target="_blank" >http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08039410.2015.1018312?journalCode=sfds20</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2015.1018312" target="_blank" >10.1080/08039410.2015.1018312</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Pontis Foundation: Partly disrupting the development discourse through partnership
Original language description
The article analyses the hierarchising and sanctifying effects of the development discourse. First, it presents this discourse using secondary sources and then it applies critical discourse analysis to several texts and interviews to analyse whether theSlovak non-governmental development organization (NGDO) the Pontis Foundation follows the development discourse in terms of sanctifying development and hierarchising cultures. The analysis thus adds to the agency/structure discussion by analysing one actor in relation to the discourse. It also adds empirical results to the already existing critique expressed in regard to NGOs and their lack of partnership. Whereas the analysed texts are very much in accordance with the hierarchising discourse, in the interviews the respondents avoid hierarchisation and hierarchise cultures only after direct questions have been asked or when adhering to linearity in relation to South Korea. The respondents both reject and accept the term development and
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AD - Political sciences
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Forum for Development Studies
ISSN
0803-9410
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
42
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
NO - NORWAY
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
265-287
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84929655296