Empowering the Disposable? Biopolitics, Race and Human Development

In: Development dialogue, Heft 58, S. 99-113

Abstract

The 20th anniversary of the publication of the rest Human Development Report (HDR) seems an appropriate time to reflect on the success of the 'human development' paradigm in redefining development in an age characterised until recently by an untrammelled commitment on the part of the principal institutions governing the international political economy to furthering the goals of capital accumulation along neoliberal lines. Contrary to the initial claims that we are now living in a postneoliberal age following the return to Keynesianism in the immediate aftermath of the September 2008 financial crisis, neoliberal-ism has shown a remarkable resilience. Adapted from the source document.