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Jesús Delgado-Baena1, Juan de Dios García-Serrano2, Tomás Diestre-Mejías1
1Department of Social Work and Social Services, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain.
Abstract:
This article examines development financing as a field of global development governance by analyzing an academic deliberative space organized in parallel to the Fourth United Nations Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4). Drawing on critical development theory and critical perspectives on human rights, the study explores how expert debates respond to and reinterpret dominant framings of development financing as a neutral and technical set of instruments oriented toward efficient resource mobilization. Methodologically, the research combines qualitative discourse analysis with semantic network analysis, based on a systematically constructed corpus of recorded expert interventions and moderated debates produced during the academic event. The corpus includes contributions from diverse institutional actors participating in structured thematic panels. Using software-assisted coding (ATLAS.ti) and network analysis (UCINET), the study applies centrality measures (degree, closeness, and betweenness) to operationalize discourse as a relational structure. Analytical rigor was strengthened through iterative coding refinement, team-based review of categories, and structural robustness checks of the generated semantic networks. The findings reveal a hierarchically organized network in which concepts associated with cooperation, governance, sustainability, and innovation occupy structurally central positions, while narratives linked to social justice, community processes, and the expansion of rights remain comparatively peripheral. The findings suggest that development financing is predominantly framed through technocratic and procedural rationalities, while critical ethical perspectives circulate with more limited structural influence. By integrating discourse theory and social network analysis, the article contributes to sociological debates on global governance, power, and the organization of normative hierarchies in contemporary development.
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