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Getting Savages to Fight Barbarians: Development, Security and the Colonial Present

Duffield, Mark

Conflict, security & development, 2005-08, Vol.5 (2), p.141-159 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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  • Título:
    Getting Savages to Fight Barbarians: Development, Security and the Colonial Present
  • Autor: Duffield, Mark
  • Assuntos: Borders ; Colonialism ; Conflict ; Development ; Nationalism ; Rebellions ; Security
  • É parte de: Conflict, security & development, 2005-08, Vol.5 (2), p.141-159
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  • Descrição: Development today is a radical & intrusive endeavour. Reflecting the interest of homeland security, it is embarked upon transforming societies as a whole within the global borderland. In attempting to secure the future, however, it is reaching backwards to reconnect & rejuvenate earlier colonial modes of governing the world of peoples. This article is a modest attempt to recover part of this genealogy. The concept of biopolitics is introduced & defined in relation to the differences between developed & underdeveloped species-life. In distinction to the life-supporting technologies associated with mass society, development is a biopolitics of population understood as self-reliant in terms of basic economic & welfare needs. The security function of such a biopolitics is that of bettering self-reliance as a means of defending international society against its enemies: it is the art of getting savages to fight barbarians. To give historic depth to this strategization of power, such a manoeuvre is demonstrated in the relationship between colonial Native Administration & insurgent nationalism. It is then used to provide a critical commentary on the interconnection between development & security, in particular, the relationship between sustainable development & internal conflict that shapes current perceptions of global danger. The conclusion briefly considers the cost of this episodic inheritance: a small part of the world's population consumes & lives beyond its means within the fragile equilibrium of mass society while the larger part is allowed to die chasing the mirage of self-reliance. Rather than addressing these divergent life-chances, the securitization of development is further entrenching them. References. Adapted from the source document.
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