Cornwall, Andrea (ed.); Eade, Deborah (contributor) - 2010
. Why should language matter to those who are doing development? Surely, there are more urgent things to do than sit around … mulling over semantics? But language does matter. Whether emptied of their original meaning, essentially vacuous, or hotly … contested, the language of development not only shapes our imagined worlds, but also justifies interventions in real people …