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Duffield - Development, Security, and Unending War

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Preface

  • Development is inherently based on continuing disorder rather than resolving it
  • Taps into the foucadian concept of biopolitics
  • “Surplus non-insured life is the subject of development, while the statis of basic needs and self reliance is its biopolitical object”
  • development functions to contain destabilizing effect of underdeveloped countries

Introduciton

  • Development requires security and visa versa
  • “Enlightened self intesrt of states”
    • effective states should protect and strengthen weaker people
  • rooted in a widening idea of “security”
  • giorgio agamben’s “liberal problem of security”
    • why does this dominate the foreground
    • how does it operate within post-cold war humanitarian, development, and interventio?
  • human as a species vs human as a machine
    • human as a species
      • collective punishment?
    • human as a machine
      • education, punishment, military, medicine, etc
  • development helped bridge the gap between freedom and rule of law @ home vs despotism overseas
  • “capitalism must have a non-noncapitalist exterior if accumulation is to be maintained”
    • capitalistic overaccumluation is filtered into development
  • nasser hussain 2003:17 - “states of” emergency can be understood to constitute the relationship between modern law and soveriegnty
  • insurance as a marker of development
    • insured life vs non-insured life
    • why do we assume under-developed countries need to strengthen self reliance, while developed ones have a strong safety net?
  • soverignty over life in ineffective states have become internationalized, negotiable, and contingent

ngo’s, Permanent Emergency, and Decolonization

  • NGO’s as the hiers to the “self-reliance model”
    • ngo’s thus priortize immediate relief difference from overall development
  • states of emergency are actually vital for liberal governance, including development
    • “redemption of the lives in ineffective countries”
    • soverign states still hold the ability to define what types of life people are
  • humanitarian relief and development are expressions of the intersection axes of “emergency” and “emergence”
    • page 33
    • what does this mean?
  • NGO’s operate in emergencies, overriding social constraints and political limits
    • humanitarian emergency strips away the identity of people concerned