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The article discusses the author's research agenda to examine the institutional and material linkage between racism and "masculinism" and those two concepts' intertwined role in advancing colonialism and Euro-centrism, as well as capitalism. The author suggests that such research will shed light on development policy. Reference is made to the ideas expressed by the literary critic theorist Gayatri Chakravorty and Women's Studies scholar V. Spike Peterson, especially their concept of socio-economic "othering."

The article discusses a field research project involving two mid-1990s sustainable agricultural development efforts in Tanzania. The study attempts to correlate fund recipient and donor participation in such projects with issues of language and discourse based on discourse analysis and participant observation. Specifically looked at is the symmetry of donor-recipient verbal participation and whether donors abuse such discourse as a repressive mechanism and a form of tyranny. Also examined are participatory programs' influence on social inequality and gender differences.

The article discusses the fragmentation of the field of development studies and development research in Austrian academics in terms of research topics, methods, goals, and theory structures and the very definition of the concept of development policy. The change in focus of development studies is traced through the Project for Development Cooperation (EZA) and national and European Commission initiatives in development aid. Rising numbers of student majors in development studies at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, and both stagnation and institutional research redirections in the discipline are traced.

Copyright of Journal für Entwicklungspolitik is the property of Mattersburger Kreis fuer Entwicklungspolitik an den Oesterreichischen Universitaeten and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Journal für Entwicklungspolitik is the property of Mattersburger Kreis fuer Entwicklungspolitik an den Oesterreichischen Universitaeten and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Journal für Entwicklungspolitik is the property of Mattersburger Kreis fuer Entwicklungspolitik an den Oesterreichischen Universitaeten and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Journal für Entwicklungspolitik is the property of Mattersburger Kreis fuer Entwicklungspolitik an den Oesterreichischen Universitaeten and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

The author reflects on his academic career and research undertakings on development and his activity in the competition for research grants and awards. He likens his efforts to those discussed by the literary figure Faust in that character's opening monologue in the drama of the same name. The author notes the many research projects he has never accomplished and mentions two of those on the subject of poverty. He describes the frustration of pursuing topics and conferences in global aid and development goals particularly in the mid-1990s and projects the probable lack of progress by 2015 in the subject by those presumed "knowledgeable."