Neoliberal development through technical assistance: Constructing communities of entrepreneurial subjects in Oaxaca, Mexico

Walker, Margath A.; Roberts, Sidney; Jones, John Paul; Fröhling, Oliver

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.10.009

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“…Securing the permission to mine was a legal ritual understood to transform their venture into an activity that could be framed as a potentially lucrative form of ''grassroots development" that fits with what scholars have described as the transnationally idealized figure of the ''ethnic entrepreneur" (DeHart, 2010;García, 2005;Greene, 2009;Walker et al, 2008). Such a figure has been idealized in indigeneity-focused development projects that arose throughout the Colca Valley region over the past two decades, and which are now on the wane, as one regional Desco NGO veteran suggested (Mejía interview 2015).…”

Section: The Puzzles Of a Family's Counter-rushmentioning

confidence: 79%

Investment’s rituals: “Grassroots” extractivism and the making of an indigenous gold mine in the Peruvian Andes

Hirsch

2017

Geoforum

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Section: The Puzzles Of a Family's Counter-rushmentioning

confidence: 79%

Investment’s rituals: “Grassroots” extractivism and the making of an indigenous gold mine in the Peruvian Andes

Hirsch

2017

Geoforum

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“…The ongoing popularity of governmentality in development studies has led to an emphasis on processes that constitute subjects as self-governing and disciplined actors (see, for example, Rankin, 2001;Phillips and Ilcan, 2004;Walker et al, 2008). Chatterjee (2004) argues that modernizing efforts in India have worked through citizens, constituting them as subjects to develop in prescribed ways: 'to transform erstwhile subjects, unfamiliar with the possibilities of equality and freedom, into modern citizens' (p. 33).…”

Section: Constituting Development Subjectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sightings of the State, Reflections of Self as Citizen: Self-Becoming in Development Encounters

Jakimow

2014

Eur J Dev Res

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The theoretical lens of governmentality has informed literature that examines how practices of development constitute development subjects: self-regulating bodies that achieve government objectives. Although it is useful, this lens has overlooked other consequences of people's experiences of development, and the more complex processes of subject making. This article focuses on overlooked effects of the encounter between state and citizens for self-making projects. Encounters with government officials act as a mirror, reflecting and constituting the self as citizen. This subject position as a citizen with a privileged relationship with the state has the potential to contradict erstwhile social positionings as subordinate and inferior. In the context of rural Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, India, I find that encounters with the state offer alternative discursive resources for processes of self-making, with consequences for marginalized villagers' relations with others.La théorie de la gouvernementalité a influencé les ouvrages de recherche qui examinent comment les pratiques du développement deviennent des sujets du développement: des organismes autorégulateurs qui remplissent les objectifs du gouvernement. Bien qu'utile, cette théorie ignore d'autres conséquences des expériences personnelles du développement, et les processus plus complexes qui entrent en jeu dans la création du sujet. Cet article se concentre sur les effets négligés de la rencontre entre l'Etat et les citoyens sur les projects de construction de soi. Les rencontres avec les agents gouvernenmentaux sont comme des miroirs, qui reflètent et constituent l'être citoyen. Cette position de sujet du citoyen bénéficiant d'une relation privilégiée avec l'Etat peut potentiellement contredire le positionnement social du sujet d'antan en tant que subordonné et inférieur. Dans le contexte du Telangana rural, dans l'état d'Andhra Pradesh en Inde, je trouve que les rencontres avec l'Etat offrent des ressources discursives alternatives pour les processus de construction de soi, qui ont des conséquences pour les villageois marginalisés dans leur relation à l'autre.

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“…In international development, there are numerous examples of this productive co-constitution as very specific governmental rationalities and technologies are deployed across international borders (Larner and Walters, 2004;Neumann and Sending, 2007;Walker et al, 2008;Ilcan and Phillips, 2010;Jakimow, 2011). Ilcan and Phillips (2010), for instance, focus on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as the latest operation of neoliberal rationalities of government, recasting and reshaping contemporary development problems and solutions through information profiling, responsibilisation and knowledge networks.…”

Section: Governing Rationalities and Technologies In International Dementioning

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‘Governed freedom’ in Oceania: AusAID, subjectivation and the practice of critique in studies of governmentality

Hodge

2014

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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Drawing predominantly on the work of Butler, Rose and Walters, this paper examines the governing rationalities and technologies that characterise one particular site of aid relations. Focusing on key policy documents, economic surveys and performance reports, the paper traces the fashioning of particular subjectivities as constitutive of AusAID's development objectives and the function of problematisation and responsibilisation as central to these practices of subjectivation. While I argue the freedom on offer as part of AusAID's development objectives is a highly governed onewhere the 'free' economic-rational subject adopts certain 'civilised sensibilities' (Rose, 1999: 78), I show how this process of subjectivation encompasses both 'a power exerted on a subject' and 'a power assumed by the subject' (Butler, 1997: 11). What becomes apparent through this analysis is the productive and tenuous characteristics of these practices of subject formation. This paper also foregrounds the practice of critique itself, and the very act of research; concepts adopted and explanations made, as far from innocent in their performativity in enacting some worlds and not others.

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Neoliberal development through technical assistance: Constructing communities of entrepreneurial subjects in Oaxaca, Mexico

Cited by 51 publications

References 33 publications

Investment’s rituals: “Grassroots” extractivism and the making of an indigenous gold mine in the Peruvian Andes

Investment’s rituals: “Grassroots” extractivism and the making of an indigenous gold mine in the Peruvian Andes

Sightings of the State, Reflections of Self as Citizen: Self-Becoming in Development Encounters

‘Governed freedom’ in Oceania: AusAID, subjectivation and the practice of critique in studies of governmentality

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