| Abstract |
Based on the historical, social, and political role that epistemic communities play as means of production, circulation and legitimation of ideas, this paper explores the evolution and configuration of paradigms in the discipline of development studies. To this end, one decade of academic congresses of two of its most consolidated epistemic communities, REEDES and EADI, is analysed. The results of this explorative exercise indicate that, even though there are shared patterns among them, we observe important points of divergence since the presence of different types of actors configures paradigms according to the needs and interests of the social structures in which epistemic communities develop. |
