ABSTRACT
In chapter 6, we investigate the support of philanthropists, analysing how provision of resources is associated with certain technologies and objectives of governing, formative of a neo-philanthropic rationality. We analyse how discourses of making a difference in society are presented in moral terms, directed towards certain forms of social reformation of people in the urban periphery. Such de-politicizing rationality is interwoven with discourses of moral government, free will and community, forming a backdrop to the technologies of social reformation carried out in practices.
