Development, Security and Unending War Governing the World of Peoples

by Duffield, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780745635798
• ISBN10: 0745635792
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-03
• Publisher: Polity

Summary

This path-breaking book argues that development is not a way of bettering other people but of governing them. With examples drawn from Mozambique, Ethiopia and Afghanistan, the book analyses the NGO movement, humanitarian intervention, sustainable development, human security, fragile states, migration and the place of racism within development.

Author Biography

Mark Duffield is Professor of Development Politics at the University of Bristol.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. viii
List of abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction: Development and Surplus Life	p. 1
Foregrounding the liberal problematic of security	p. 2
Linking biopolitics, liberalism and development	p. 4
Surplus population and accumulation by dispossession	p. 9
Slavery and excess freedom	p. 12
Separating development and underdevelopment biopolitically	p. 16
The divergence of insured and non-insured life	p. 19
From internal war to global instability	p. 24
Occupation and contingent sovereignty	p. 27
Disturbing the boundaries of time and space	p. 29
NGOs, Permanent Emergency and Decolonization	p. 32
Total war and the paradox of biopolitics	p. 34
NGOs and total war	p. 36
The colonial inheritance	p. 39
Expansion without imperial reconciliation	p. 42
Emergency and the dilemma of development	p. 46
Cold War liminality and non-state sovereignty	p. 51
Sustainable development: knowledge makes free	p. 55
The question of agency: being the right type	p. 59
Postscript	p. 64
The Emergence of Contingent Sovereignty	p. 66
From modernization to sustainable development	p. 67
Emergency and contingent sovereignty	p. 70
Negotiated access and the humanitarian boom	p. 75
Contingent sovereignty and the external frontier	p. 78
Mozambique, Governmentalization and Non-material Development	p. 82
The background to a 'complex emergency'	p. 83
The changing relationship with NGOs	p. 87
War and the destruction of culture	p. 92
The re-emergence of social cohesion	p. 96
Opposing economic differentiation	p. 98
Non-material development	p. 101
Gender, natural economy and land	p. 105
Concluding remarks	p. 109
Human Security and Global Danger	p. 111
Human security as a technology of governance	p. 112
Internal war and the crisis of containment	p. 115
Globalizing versus containing tendencies	p. 119
Reinstating the state	p. 121
Containing underdevelopment	p. 123
Unending war, human security and NGOs	p. 126
Concluding remarks	p. 131
Afghanistan, Coherence and Taliban Rule	p. 133
From negotiation to coercion	p. 133
The strategic framework for Afghanistan	p. 137
Development and security in practice	p. 142
Aid and peace-building in a failed state	p. 144
The limits of principled engagement	p. 146
The problematization of state-based politics	p. 151
UNSMA and the critique of aid	p. 154
Concluding remarks	p. 157
Fragile States and Native Administration	p. 159
Fragility and global instability	p. 160
Contingent sovereignty and non-material development	p. 163
The governance state	p. 165
The fragile state and liberal imperialism	p. 170
Technologies of post-interventionary governance	p. 180
Concluding remarks	p. 182
Racism, Circulation and Security	p. 184
The collapse of the national-international dichotomy	p. 185
From race war to racism	p. 188
Liberalism, imperialism and culture	p. 191
Decolonization and the new racism	p. 197
Racism and anti-racism	p. 200
Conjoining the internal and external frontiers	p. 203
Migration and the European state of exception	p. 206
The changing regime of internal development	p. 209
Concluding remarks	p. 213
Conclusion: From Containment to Solidarity	p. 215
The biopolitics of insured and non-insured life	p. 216
Development and emergency	p. 218
Governmentalizing petty sovereignty	p. 220
The biopolitics of unending war	p. 223
Is there an alternative development?	p. 227
The solidarity of the governed	p. 232
References	p. 235
Index	p. 256
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