@article{ref1,
title="The Gendered Violence of Development: Imaginative Geographies of Exclusion in the Imposition of Neo‐liberal Capitalism",
journal="British journal of politics and international relations",
year="2007",
author="Coleman, Lara",
volume="9",
number="2",
pages="204-219",
abstract="In this article I consider how gendered hierarchies are constitutive of neo-liberal development and the violence attendant upon it. Building on Arturo Escobar's observation that violence is constitutive of development, I explore how the violent imposition of neo-liberal development is legitimised through the inscription of gendered imaginative geographies, which define ‘savage’ spaces of exclusion in need of ‘civilising’ development interventions. Drawing on the example of contemporary Colombia, I trace how the development discourse produces space in this way by normalising certain identities and political rationalities—those associated with competition and rational economic behaviour—while representing others as errant, as hyper-masculine subjects prone to violence or ‘pre-rational’ feminised subjects.<p />",
language="",
issn="1369-1481",
doi="10.1111/j.1467-856X.2007.00288.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2007.00288.x"
}