Our latest GEOFORMATIONS article, featured in EU Research, explores a fundamental question: Who Shapes Development?
Drawing on our Principal Investigator Dr Susan Murphy’s discussion with the publisher, the article’s key contribution is to shift attention away from viewing development as something shaped by a few powerful organisations or institutions. Instead, it highlights how development is continually produced through complex and evolving relationships between multiple, relatively autonomous actors across different contexts.
Dr. Murphy shares how assemblage perspective helps us understand how power, influence, knowledge and decision-making emerge through interactions between civil society, governments, communities, donors and development organisations.
“Development cooperation involves a vast web of relatively autonomous actors and organisations all interacting in different ways across different contexts.” Dr. Susan Murphy.
Who then really shapes development?
Read the full article on our GEOFORMATIONS Website or in EU Research
