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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 ColemanIn 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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The British Journal Of Politics And International RelationsISSN
1467-856XPublisher
Blackwell PublishingExternal DOI
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2Volume
9Page range
204-219Department affiliated with
- International Relations Publications
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2015-10-20Usage metrics
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