Paper on Development as a case study, this article critically reassesses Escobar’s notion of development discourse. Rather than being monolithic and static, as Escobar and others have implied, the writers argue that changes can and do take place within development organizations. Not only does the White Paper clearly signal a new direction in policy; it also results both from changes within DFID – in personnel and in the balance of power between interest groups – and between DFID and civil society. Keywords n development anthropology n development discourse There can be little doubt that the concept of ‘discourse ’ has had a great effect on the anthropology of development during the 1990s. It has cap-tured the anthropological imagination, inspired research in an area which was previously characterized by theoretical stagnation and has struck a major blow for the practical agenda of development anthropology, whose proponents had long been viewed with suspicion by more ‘academic ’ col-leagues. Most famously exemplified in the writings of James Ferguson (1990) and Arturo Escobar (1991, 1995), the idea that Foucauldian dis-course analysis might be used to understand development has opened up a range of important questions about the ways in which knowledge, power and action are linked in the work of development agencies and projects around the world.1 Like many new theoretical directions, however, ‘development as dis-course ’ has now reached a stage where it needs to advance from its more

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