Reconstituted Marxist theories of ideology, as with Gramsci, might do a better job-or some other conception more directly rooted in social rather than discursive relations.
the critical point is not to make the easy claim that poststructural critics of development theory overstate their position, but to argue that the analysis of discourse, with its linking of oppositional theoretical traditions because they vaguely "share the same discursive space" (within which oppose one another), is prone to this kind of vergeneralizaation