ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates the extent to which social and political struggles have been global in scope. It describes the fact that post-colonial critique is not sufficient to render visible the way in which a contradictory international development project is organised and contested at various sites and through various agencies under current social and political conjunctures. A comprehensive approach requires an evaluation of the way in which the identity of the developmental subject has been conceived mainly in economistic and technocratic terms. The chapter seeks to consider the social and political effects of the technocratic framing of human beings in the wider context of spatial and temporal dynamics. It explores how the orthodox framing of the ‘question of development’ has been deployed to justify and legitimate social relations as being primarily mediated through property relations.
