RT Article
T1 Beyond Modernization: Development Cooperation as Normative Practice
JF Philosophia reformata
VO 83
IS 1
SP 111
OP 139
A1 Rademaker, Corné J.
A1 Jochemsen, Henk 1952-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1576028917
AB In 2010, the Dutch Scientific Council for Governmental Policy called for an explicit and adequate intervention ethics for policy on international development cooperation. Yet, as appears from a careful reading of their report, the council’s own overall commitment to a modernist worldview hinders the fruitful development of such an intervention ethics. There is, however, a strand in their thinking that draws attention to the importance of practical knowledge. We argue specifically that an intervention ethics for development cooperation in agriculture should start from this practical knowledge, which points to the inherent normativity of agricultural development cooperation. That is, agricultural development cooperation is a normative practice of which the inherent normativity consists in facilitating other practices in the agricultural domain. As such, agricultural development cooperation should respect the normativity inherent in those other practices.
K1 development cooperation : agriculture : intervention ethics : normative practice : modernization
DO 10.1163/23528230-08301007