Date of Award
1-1-2014
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Department
Human Communications
First Advisor
Joshua Hanan
Keywords
Articulation, Commensuration, Grameen, Microcredit, Microfinance, Yunus
Abstract
This thesis analyzes the rhetoric of Muhammad Yunus as an articulation of a new governing logic, one that reconstitutes the concept of poverty and binds the poor to the apparatus of global capitalism through a new logic of micro-enterprise. Working within a Foucauldian critical framework informed by the rhetorical scholarship of Ronald W. Greene and Joshua Hanan, the argument proceeds by first paying careful attention to Yunus' work as constitutive of a new grid of intelligibility through which to view the poor and then demonstrating the application of this reformed discourse on "creditworthiness" in articulating a novel regime of commensuration. This line of reasoning culminates in an examination of the role Yunus' reconstitution of the poor through the logic of micro-enterprise played in implementing an increasingly neoliberal policy framework in apparatuses of international development such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Recommended Citation
Brooks, Kaleb, "Debtor's Empowerment: Muhammad Yunus and the Rhetoric of Microfinance" (2014). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 90.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/90
Provenance
Recieved from ProQuest
Rights holder
Kaleb Brooks
File size
79 p.
Copyright date
2014
File format
application/pdf
Language
en
Discipline
Rhetoric, Economics, Communication