Abstract

On 28 September 2018, an earthquake and tsunami hit West Sulawesi, destroying homes, mosques and livelihoods, displacing 80,000 people and killing at least 2000. Immediately, thousands of volunteer...

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  • As Christina Bennett, an international aid policy analyst, notes, ‘gone are the days when you’re going to have a humanitarian sector that comes into a disaster situation with a very heavy footprint and sets up as almost an auxiliary, or a replacement of government services’

  • At the heart of this moral turn, we argue, is the depoliticization or, as Didier Fassin (2012, 6) puts it, the masking of questions of inequality, domination and injustice

  • Actors take part in the present-day development encounter with diverse motives, agendas and interpretations that may or may not correspond to this dominant logic of ‘rendering moral’. It is in these politics that we identify a reconfiguration of the role of the state in the region

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South East Asia Research

ISSN: 0967-828X (Print) 2043-6874 (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rsou. To cite this article: Annuska Derks & Minh T. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 908 View related articles View Crossmark data Citing articles: 1 View citing articles.

INTRODUCTION
The afterlives of development and transnational governmentality
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