It has been noted that development literature has overlooked theoretical issues, largely because theory and practice are viewed as separate. This separation is produced in language and can be collapsed. Pin-Fat’s grammatical reading offers a way of thinking about development by ‘staying on the surface of language’. Debates about naming development practices are not purely semantic; they reveal implicit theoretical understandings of what can and should be accomplished by those practices. Grammatical reading allows us to interrogate these assumptions. Thus, enabling reading theory from practice, to challenge how possibility has been constructed, opening space for new approaches to be explored.
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