Klein, E. and Mills, C. orcid.org/0000-0003-0615-234X (2017) Psy-expertise, therapeutic culture and the politics of the personal in development. Third World Quarterly, 38 (9). pp. 1990-2008. ISSN 0143-6597
Abstract
Expertise stemming from the psy disciplines is increasingly and explicitly shaping international development policy and practice. Whilst some policy makers see the use of psy expertise as a new way to reduce poverty, increase economic efficiency, and promote wellbeing, others raise concerns that psychocentric development promotes individual over structural change, pathologises poverty, and depoliticises development. This paper specifically analyses four aspects of psy knowledge used in contemporary development policy: child development/developmental psychology, behavioural economics, positive psychology, and global mental health. This analysis illuminates the co-constitutive intellectual and colonial histories of development and psy-expertise: a connection that complicates claims that development has been psychologized; the uses and coloniality of both within a neoliberal project; and the potential for psychopolitics to inform development.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Southseries Inc. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Third World Quarterly. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Psy-expertise; child development; behaviouralization; global mental health; therapeutic culture |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Education (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 21 Apr 2017 11:00 |
Last Modified: | 28 Jul 2023 15:20 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/01436597.2017.1319277 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:115240 |