Development as life-making

IF 4.8 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

World Development Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-27 DOI:10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107347

Alessandra Mezzadri

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Abstract

Building on critiques of Development as both immanent and intentional process, this contribution advances a vision of Development as life-making, grounded in a global feminist political economy approach centred on the concept of social reproduction. Moving beyond the methodological nationalism of many productivist paradigms, it redirects Development toward the regeneration of social, economic, and ecological conditions that sustain life; the dismantling of intersectional and existential inequalities; and the pursuit of social and economic justice. This new vision and definition restructure Development priorities along three axes: reproductive labour, life-sustaining sectors, and surplus populations. This reframing brings theoretical, political, and policy agendas into alignment with a project of planetary social justice, drawing on the diverse legacy of social reproduction feminism.

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发展是生命之源

在批评发展是内在的和有意的过程的基础上，这篇文章提出了一种发展是创造生活的观点，其基础是以社会再生产概念为中心的全球女权主义政治经济方法。它超越了许多生产主义范式的方法论民族主义，将发展重新导向维持生命的社会、经济和生态条件的再生；消除交叉和存在的不平等；追求社会和经济公正。这一新的愿景和定义沿着三个轴重新调整了发展优先事项：生殖劳动、维持生命的部门和过剩人口。这种重构使理论、政治和政策议程与全球社会正义项目保持一致，并借鉴了社会再生产女权主义的各种遗产。

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来源期刊

World Development Multiple-

CiteScore

12.70

自引率

5.80%

发文量

320

期刊介绍： World Development is a multi-disciplinary monthly journal of development studies. It seeks to explore ways of improving standards of living, and the human condition generally, by examining potential solutions to problems such as: poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, disease, lack of shelter, environmental degradation, inadequate scientific and technological resources, trade and payments imbalances, international debt, gender and ethnic discrimination, militarism and civil conflict, and lack of popular participation in economic and political life. Contributions offer constructive ideas and analysis, and highlight the lessons to be learned from the experiences of different nations, societies, and economies.