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The gendered violence of development: imaginative geographies of exclusion in the imposition of neo-liberal capitalism

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posted on 2023-06-08, 22:50 authored by Lara Montesinos ColemanLara Montesinos Coleman
In this article I consider how gendered hierarchies are constitutive of neo-liberal development and the violence attendant upon it. Building on Arturo Escobar's observation that violence is constitutive of development, I explore how the violent imposition of neo-liberal development is legitimised through the inscription of gendered imaginative geographies, which define ‘savage’ spaces of exclusion in need of ‘civilising’ development interventions. Drawing on the example of contemporary Colombia, I trace how the development discourse produces space in this way by normalising certain identities and political rationalities—those associated with competition and rational economic behaviour—while representing others as errant, as hyper-masculine subjects prone to violence or ‘pre-rational’ feminised subjects.

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  • Published

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The British Journal Of Politics And International Relations

ISSN

1467-856X

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing

Issue

2

Volume

9

Page range

204-219

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  • International Relations Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2015-10-20

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