From Commodity to Capability Fetishism: Human Development as a Harmonisation of Social and Territorial Cartographies

The development discourse has been thrown into a disarray and paradigmatic quagmire by the impasse of neo-liberal transnational social cartographies. There are calls within fraternity to deterritorise concept so as grapple with it sufficiently effectively. Failure adhere this call, various discourses have accused methodological territorialism. This paper uses critical hermeneutics argue that trajectory from Trickle Down Basic Needs Theory Human Rights, Capability Functionings approaches is fundamentally paradigm shift territorial further argues despite significance cartographies occasioned globalisation, envisaged structuralists, post-structuralists, post-developmentalists, post-colonialists global ethnographers still vital because their thorough critique power behind structures disadvantage individuals. contends in order realise engendered development, pertinent ultimately look at individual who basic ingredient moral society (ethical individualism) well strictures disempower vulnerablelise agents.