Development promotes bureaucratization, and bureaucracies are based on knowledge and produce knowledge. Failures of development are therefore regularly attributed to a lack of knowledge. The article argues that the quest for knowledge is embedded in the managerial rationality of interventions. This rationality also structures the developmental knowledge field and thereby generates ignorance. The example of a state-building program in Somalia is used to empirically explore how the generation, administration, and transfer of knowledge was intertwined with ignorance. It shows what knowledge missed, obfuscated, ignored, or even hid and how knowledge and ignorance were arranged in the daily state-building practice. This approach sheds light on relations and mechanism of power exerted in development and helps to explain its effects. In Somalia, omission, silence, secrecy, and strategic and bureaucratic ignorance enabled the program to delineate the interventionist terrain as technical and to depoliticize state-building. They also helped to expand liberal modalities of government to “remote” and “unruly” Somali villages.

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看起来像官僚机构：在索马里重新安排知识和无知

发展促进官僚化，官僚机构以知识为基础并产生知识。因此，发展的失败通常归因于缺乏知识。文章认为，对知识的追求嵌入在干预的管理合理性中。这种合理性也构成了发展知识领域，从而产生了无知。索马里的一个国家建设计划的例子被用来凭经验探索知识的产生，管理和转移是如何与无知交织在一起的。它显示了知识的缺失，混淆，忽略甚至隐藏的内容，以及在日常的国家建设实践中知识和无知的排列方式。这种方法揭示了发展中施加的权力关系和机制，并有助于解释其影响。在索马里，遗漏了 沉默，保密以及对战略和官僚的无知使该计划将干预主义地区划为技术领域，并使国家建设非政治化。他们还帮助扩大了政府的自由形式，以“远程”和“不守规矩”的索马里村庄。