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From Saying to Showing: Action, the Economy of Silence, and the Limits of Development Discourse

Viateur Nkurunziza

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 62–76 · 10.55121/prr.v3i2.102513

Contemporary discourses on inclusive and just development emphasise ambitions of empowerment and capacity-building without producing genuine socio-economic transformation. This article develops the concept of the Economy of Silence to explain why the smallest and most constrained actors are often those who generate social change