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This document summarizes an article that discusses how the concept of "human development" has been co-opted by neoliberal ideologies to promote empowerment as a means to make marginalized populations self-reliant and productive within market systems. It argues that empowerment functions as a biopolitical technology to construct self-interested individuals needed for capitalism. By making "disposable" populations marketable, empowerment aims to resolve the problem of surplus populations not integrated into m

Author

Bernardo Castiblanco Torres

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