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Rethinking Development, or the Improvement of the World

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From the colonial period to the present governing authorities, experts and self-appointed “trustees” have diagnosed deficiencies in landscapes and populations, and devised technical schemes to bring about improvement. They set out to alleviate poverty, but exclude key political-economic relations from their technical domain. Yet there are conjunctures at which the question of poverty is understood in terms that clearly demand political settlements, and we may see signs of this in the distributive welfare regimes currently emerging in parts of the global south.

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