The Right to Development: The Politics and Polemics of Power and Resistance Journal Articles

abstract

• The polarized debate amongst states, scholars, and practitioners over the right to development is underlined by salient paradoxes and contradictions. The rhetoric of the right to development has been deployed both as a language of resistance to oppose a hegemonic global economic system and as a language of power to assert national sovereignty and legitimize statist political and economic agendas. Apart from bedeviling the elaboration and implementation of the right to development, the insular political and ideological jockeying that has characterized the discourse raises pertinent questions about the normative objectivity of the international human rights movement.

authors

• Ibhawoh, Bonny

status

• published 

publication date

• February 2011

has subject area

• 1606 Political Science (FoR)
• 1801 Law (FoR)
• 2203 Philosophy (FoR)
• International Relations (Science Metrix)

published in

• Human Rights Quarterly  Journal

keywords

• Government & Law
• Political Science
• Social Issues
• Social Sciences

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1353/hrq.2011.0001

start page

• 76

end page

• 104

volume

• 33

issue

• 1