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The Double Life of Development: Empowerment, USAID and the Maoist Uprising in Nepal

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type="main"> The geographies of developmental empowerment and subaltern rebellion have unexpectedly overlapped and expanded rapidly in recent years, especially in peasant societies in the global South. By examining the relationship between the long history of development programmes and the emergence of the Maoist revolution in Nepal in the 1990s, this article demonstrates how developmental ideas, particularly the notion of empowerment, can be articulated politically. The author argues that development has a double life in which development subjectivities are reproduced through the simultaneous processes of enrolment and othering, generating the conditions of subordination for development's own reproduction. Development can generate the possibility of rebellion by creating negative consciousness of the process of othering. This article contributes to the growing literature on rebellion and development by showing how development, while striving for hegemony, continuously produces fissures in geographically specific ways that can become portals for the emergence of rebellious possibilities.

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  • Dinesh Paudel, 2016. "The Double Life of Development: Empowerment, USAID and the Maoist Uprising in Nepal," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 47(5), pages 1025-1050, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devchg:v:47:y:2016:i:5:p:1025-1050
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