The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development 822331667 This taught me a lot of things I didn't know about when and how we came to have 'the developed world' and 'the developing world,' how the links to colonialism and gender and capitalism work in a really complex way. I didn't know how shallow my own critical analysis of that stuff was before!

This taught me a lot of things I didn't know about when and how we came to have 'the developed world' and 'the developing world,' how the links to colonialism and gender and capitalism work in a really complex way. I didn't know how shallow my own critical analysis of that stuff was before!

I've always thought that a lot of the narratives of development that circulate around the ways sf thinks about the future have a lot to do with how white its mainstream worldview is. One of the things Saldana-Portillo argues is that the developmental imagination is NOT white/western-only, though, so I don't know.