Thesiss

The motivation for this research comes from the belief that an over reliance on a social constructivist perspective has caused development studies in general, and post-development in particular, to under-theorize the role of discourse in development. A key issue in post-developm…

This thesis proceeds from an anxiety about the effects of depoliticization in the context of a sovereignty rooted in the management of the material lives of its subjects and in a globalized world defined by risk and interdependence. It argues that the production of humanity as a…