ABSTRACT
This chapter expands the intellectual engagement with the concepts and theories of gender and development in Chapter 1. We begin with a discussion of how intersectional gender, class and racial hierarchies emerged as relational categories that have served as an organizing principle in the economic/political histories of colonialism and imperialism. We provide an overview of the decline of Western Euro-colonialism and imperialism and the rise of newly independent countries, borders and political and economic citizenship from the Cold War to the War on Terror. We discuss the emergence of gendered, raced and classed hierarchies as forms of inequality that continue under capitalist development. We aim to connect the history of Western European expansion and US colonialism to discuss how development emerges, and is embraced and contested at multiple scales.
