Juan Telleria

• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at University of the Basque Country - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Postcolonial critique reveals the traces of the colonial past in every corner of our present lives and exposes the colonial violence inherent in global inequality. This collective comic project illuminates the coloniality of everyday life as well as the decolonising potential of everyday struggles in the spaces, discourses and practices of so-calle...

There is a growing consensus among development researchers and practitioners that development studies is in a critical moment. This chapter offers reflections on the challenges and transformations that development studies face in order to redefine its remit, and to position itself within broader academic, policy, and practice communities.

A book that analyses global issues from the perspective of a negative universality––where the only universal characteristic in every particularity is conceptualized in terms of ‘lack of’ and ‘impossibility of’––is both bold and necessary. It is bold because a positive understanding of universalism––based on the assumption that a positive element ex...

In the early 1990s, the UNDP’s human development approach became very influential in international development debates. Since then, the UNDP publishes yearly global Human Development Reports, where the Human Development Index of every country is listed and ranked. This article conducts a Foucauldian genealogical analysis of the UNDP’s understanding...

This article analyses the marginal position cultural diversity is granted in the United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development. Drawing on the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida, it analyses and deconstructs the ontological assumptions of the UN's discourse. The inquiry shows that the ontological structure of the UN's agenda creates a...

The article offers a critical analysis of the United Nations 2030 Global Development Agenda, whose stated aim is to "transform the world" in such a way that no one is left behind. Drawing on post-Marxist theory, we argue that the 2030 Global Development Agenda is a fantasmatic narrative seeking to conceal the conflictual causes and the antagonistic...

Entry in EADI's Blog - http://www.developmentresearch.eu/?p=871

This short video presents 5 reasons to read the book Deconstructing Human Development. Online Video (45 sec.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDWKTcvEOJM

5 Reasons to read Deconstructing Human Development

VIDEO (45 sec.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDWKTcvEOJM ______________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT: This book provides a critical deconstruction of the human development framework promoted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990. Taking the Human Development Reports of...

Participatory development became a new development orthodoxy during the early 1990s. However, many researchers have criticised that its implementation often fails to live up to its original transformative roots. This article analyses the participatory research methods promoted by the UNDP, its epistemological foundations and the knowledge–power dyn...

A critical analysis of the MDGs and the SDGs from a post-foundational perspective (Laclau and Mouffe) Download free: http://bora.uib.no/handle/1956/21649 Presentation: https://youtu.be/uqwCSI06cOA

The Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals are the latest instalments of a development endeavour started by the United Nations (UN) after WWII. This article conducts a discourse analysis of the UN development agenda, drawing on Laclau and Mouffe’s post-Marxist thought – which combines post-structuralist discourse analysis an...

Link directo al video: https://youtu.be/UQ3LNxUqELw

Book Review

The UN′s Sustainable Development Goals agenda points far into 2030, which shows that its post-war development endeavour is not functioning effectively. This article implements a discourse analysis of the UN Development Programme′s (UNDP) Human Development Reports (HDR) and exposes their internal contradictions. This analysis enables a critical refl...

Despite the failure of the Millennium Development Goals, the UN agenda subsequent to 2015 creates an invitation to continue the discussion about development. From this situation, this article proposes a critical analysis of the UNDP Paradigm of Human Development. The goal is to reveal how the implicit assumptions of this paradigm, instead of promot...

‘Culture’ is one of those concepts so widely used that it tends to fall into ambiguity and vagueness. Institutions dealing with power use them quite often in order to produce profuse, but somehow vacuous, discourses. That would be the case of the influential Human Development Reports of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). After evidencin...

Un discurso que explícitamente afirma una idea pero implícitamente refuerza la contraria es el instrumento perfecto para desactivar cualquier iniciativa de cambio. El presente artículo muestra que éste es el caso de los Informes del Desarrollo Humano del Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD). Mediante un sencillo ejercicio hermenéut...

Este capítulo muestra cómo existe una dimensión valorativa IMPLÍCITA en la Ciencia Económica moderna. La ciencia económica busca, en última instancia, explicar las decisiones del individuo que, contando con ciertos recursos, trata de alcanzar unos fines. Para ello la ciencia económica más ortodoxa parte de las asunciones antropológicas del utilitar...

El libro está dividido en dos partes. La primera hace un repaso del debate teórico en torno al concepto de Codesarrollo. La segunda parte muestra las experiencias de codesarrollo surgidas en la ciudad catalana de L'Hospitalet de Llobregat.