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Shifting the Development Discourse: A Narrative of a Civil Society Network in Ecuador
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Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.3231
Subject(s) - civil society , narrative , state (computer science) , civil discourse , sociology , political science , discourse analysis , law , politics , computer science , linguistics , algorithm , philosophy
Abstract This article provides a narrative of the emergence and formalization of a civil society network in Ecuador. The narrative provides a backdrop to explain how organized civil society produces an alternative discourse by shifting key descriptors related to civil society and development. While civil society–state relations still unfold in Ecuador, an alternative development discourse with shifted descriptors has helped to consolidate the civil society network. This shifting of development discourse may provide an avenue for organized civil society to continue to better argue and demonstrate its contributions to social development. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.