The post-colonial erahas seenthe rise of ‘‘humandevelopment” as a global socio-political goal (Sen, 1999). While development is a multifarious concept, its dominant form today is that of capitalist development, involving the widespread use of fossil fuels for energy, globalization of manufacturing, and the creation of a consumer class weaned on products recognizable throughout the globe. This standard model of development aka ‘‘developmentality” (Deb, 2009), centred around consumption- fuelled economic growth and surplus accumulation, has depended
on the intensive exploitation of people and nature, thereby adversely impacting societies and ecologies throughout the planet.