Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: EDUARDO BRITTO SANTOS

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : EDUARDO BRITTO SANTOS
DATE: 29/04/2021
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Virtual
TITLE:

Embedded poverty. Science, politics and the fight against poverty - the transformation of narratives about poverty by international cooperation agencies

KEY WORDS:

poverty, narratives, international cooperation, ideas, interests, embedded, IFAD.

PAGES: 80
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Ciência Política
SUBÁREA: Política Internacional
SUMMARY:

For what reason does a certain type of problem, or a specific way of problematizing poverty, appear in a given historical period? How, and why, is poverty constituted as a societal matter, to be handled by the State, and, later on, more specifically, by International Cooperation Agencies? How, and why, have they changed throughout time? This paper analyses the case of the UN’s International Cooperation Agency, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), through the study of its narratives on poverty, from its foundation in 1978 until the year of 2018. Why study the narratives produced by such an Institution? Because Institutions create, produce, and make reality as they built their guidelines and express them through the means of narratives. Therefore, narratives are constructed objects and may act as reality itself. They perform or at least conduct, the transformations they wish to achieve in the real world. The narrative-building process is connected to the historical context and the political subjects that have produced it. The theoretical and methodological task at hand is to trace back the history of those different narratives on the strategies built to fight rural poverty in the historical period above mentioned. The guiding question is: what are the nature and the structure of the power struggle that operate behind the establishment of narratives and poverty-fighting instruments? As a general hypothesis, we believe that the narratives that are made public by the Development Agencies aren’t built simply as a result of an evolution in the understanding of means of intervention in the rural environment, which happens through the incorporation of new approaches outside said agencies, as in the case of the influence of a conception of poverty treatment advocated by intellectuals, but also as a product of the political and economic interests of the countries that are responsible for sponsoring these agencies

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 387225 - JORGE OSVALDO ROMANO
Interna - 1432841 - CLAUDIA JOB SCHMITT
Interno - 387237 - JOHN WILKINSON
Externo à Instituição - MICHEL CAHEN