Development

This chapter raises the question of why “development” is a political concept. It asks us to allow the concept of development to overflow the interplay of capital and colony. This makes room for an acknowledgment of complicity—folded-togetherness—rather than see “development” to be conceptualized as good or evil or both after colonialism. It asks us to see that development as sustainable underdevelopment has a longer history and perhaps even that this history is beginning to make itself visible as the pattern of globalization explodes economic growth into developing inequality. It suggests that the conceptualization of development must be unevenly interdisciplinary—statistics and political science folded together, complicit—with the disciplines of subject-formation, the humanities.