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This essay expands transnational feminist methodology such that it better affirms both women's agency and noncapitalism. By bridging transnational feminism and antiessentialist Marxism in the context of feminist development studies, it builds on the contributions of Chandra Talpade Mohanty, which reorient modernist development to take women's agency seriously. However, the lens provided by J. K. Gibson-Graham and other antiessentialist Marxist authors shows how the capitalocentrism and power essentialism woven into Mohanty's efforts diminish women's agency and constrain our political futures. By rereading Maria Mies's study on women lace makers in India, which Mohanty often cites, I explore the productivity of Gibson-Graham's focus on the languages of diverse and community economies. Based on this exploration, I sketch a contour of transnational feminist literacy practices that enable us to recognize and build upon noncapitalism within a web of social interdependence, with a critical eye to the specificities of women's agency. Adapted from the source document.

Development bureaucrats are the human instruments of the policies that mobilise funds, create organisations and underwrite interventions. For their home audiences development organisations need to present bureaucrats who are reliable instruments. In the field these same organisations need staff who can do what makes sense. This arrangement works until what makes sense in head office does not work in the field. At that point staff have to 'marry off' these two worlds. How these staff are understood shapes both how they can be approached by locals and how they should be supported by their organisations. This paper draws on research done in a donor organisation headquarters, in a military unit tasked with conducting development activities and at a field-level donor mission in a failed state. It explores the relevance, methods to research, the plausibility and the productivity of understanding the development bureaucrats who do this 'marrying off' as non-unitary subjects. Adapted from the source document.