James Ferguson

[Rosamma Thomas]

Renowned cultural anthropologist James Ferguson, who passed away this year, in his critique of “development as an anti-politics machine”, notes that development projects often depoliticise deeply political questions like land, labour and justice by framing them as technical problems to be solved. What gets lost is context and the capacity for people to shape their futures on their own terms. https://www.globalresearch.ca/beneath-the-flyover-beside-the-temple-challenging-development-what-is-development-colin-todhunter/5902814