Photo: Apil presenting at ACSP in Minneapolis, October 2025. Photo credit: Eunsoo Hyun The study introduces “equity as governance rationality”, arguing that inequitable recovery results not from data absence but from how governance transforms moral intent into administrative order.
- Governmentality: Technical control replaces political deliberation.
- Anti-politics: Structural injustices are reframed as technical issues.
- Justice reframing: Equity must be re-politicized as a structural governance principle, not an administrative task.
Achieving equitable recovery requires:
- Embedding inclusion and recognition within governance systems, not only policy texts.
- Treating data as political knowledge, informing redistributive decisions.
- Sustaining equity commitments beyond donor cycles through institutional reforms that enable local discretion and contextual adaptation.
Photo: Apil presenting at ACSP in Minneapolis, October 2025. Photo credit: Eunsoo Hyun
