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This research critically analyzes the concept of development, highlighting its limitations when rooted in modern, colonial, and neoliberal rationalities. We start by recognizing that the hegemonic model of development, solidified by Western institutional frameworks, has narrowed into a logic focused solely on economic growth, disregarding the structural oppressions affecting historically marginalized bodies and territories. In this context, this work seeks to answer the following question: Can a development model that ignores the intersectional oppressions of race, gender, class, and territory truly be considered just and emancipatory? The defended hypothesis is that the traditional paradigm reproduces inequalities by invisibilizing peripheral knowledges and experiences, demanding its reconstruction from the system's margins. Methodologically, the research is purely theoretical, exploratory in nature, employing a deductive method, a qualitative approach, and utilizing content and conceptual analysis resources. We examine development in its economic, political, epistemic, and territorial dimensions. Ultimately, we conclude that a development model that disregards intersectional oppressions and peripheral knowledges perpetuates exclusion and coloniality, and therefore cannot be recognized as just, democratic, or emancipatory.