Post-WWII Development Discourse Framed as Creativity Problem in ARTMargins Article

A paper by Ijlal Muzaffar, published on June 20, 2023, in ARTMargins Volume 12, Issue 2, pages 43-57, examines how post-World War II expertise legitimized intervention in the Third World by celebrating ingenuity. It argues that architects and planners promoted qualitative patterns as sources of self-generative change, sidestepping colonial drain and global financial regimes. The article, available via MIT Press under DOI 10.1162/artm_a_00351, critiques this mode of securing authority through creativity narratives. Access is subscription-only, with content hosted at artmargins.com.