Daniel Bendix

• Professor
• Friedensau Adventist University

Rather than only learning about inequality in the development studies classroom, students of colour from the Global South studying in the Global North also live it outside of university. This paper explores to what extent students experience racism in the low-wage sector in German to reflect on consequences for development studies programmes. It pr...

This comic story is inspired by Daniel Bendix' family history, and tells a twisted story of Jewish-German emigration to Namibia, involvement in German colonialism and dealing with the genocide against Ovaherero, Nama, San and Damara.

Postcolonial critique reveals the traces of the colonial past in every corner of our present lives and exposes the colonial violence inherent in global inequality. This collective comic project illuminates the coloniality of everyday life as well as the decolonising potential of everyday struggles in the spaces, discourses and practices of so-calle...

This comic story explores the perils of a development consultant, whose professional identity and belief systems are undermined and who is confronted with the necessity and difficulty of postdevelopment pathways.

Zu viel Bevölkerung oder zu wenig? Wer soll Kinder bekommen und wer vom Gebären abgehalten werden? Kinderkriegen ist eingebunden in mächtige Regierungsstrategien, die auf Körper und Bevölkerungen abzielen. Das malthusianische Denken geht noch weiter, indem es fast alle Krisen unserer Zeit zu Bevölkerungsproblemen umdeutet. Der Status quo von sozial...

Zu viel Bevölkerung oder zu wenig? Wer soll Kinder bekommen und wer vom Gebären abgehalten werden? Kinderkriegen ist eingebunden in mächtige Regierungsstrategien, die auf Körper und Bevölkerungen abzielen. Das malthusianische Denken geht noch weiter, indem es fast alle Krisen unserer Zeit zu Bevölkerungsproblemen umdeutet. Der Status quo von sozial...

Aktivitäten im In-und Ausland. Dabei kann sie sowohl zur Stabilisierung als auch zur Destabi-lisierung kolonialer Kontinuitäten beitragen. In diesem Beitrag wird empirisch der Frage nach einer kolonialen Gegenwart und dekolonialen Zukunft bundesdeutscher Entwicklungspolitik nachgegangen. Für den ersten Fall wird die Bearbeitung des Themas Bevölkeru...

This book provides a compendium of strategies for decolonizing global knowledge orders, research methodology and teaching in the social sciences. The volume presents recent work on epistemological critique informed by postcolonial thought, and outlines strategies for actively decolonizing social science methodology and learning/teaching environment...

In this article we explore discourses and practices of refugee activist struggles in the context of deportation and post-deportation and their connection to social work. We examine knowledge production in refugee activism, direct action against deportation, and self-organised post-deportation social support by migrants. Thus, this research compleme...

Dieser Beitrag untersucht bäuerlichen Widerstand gegen Vertreibung durch Landgrabbing in dem zu Zeiten der französischen Kolonialherrschaft gegründeten Entwicklungsprojekt Office du Niger in Mali. In dem analysierten Fall handelt es sich um eine fast zehn Jahre andauernde Auseinandersetzung zwischen Kleinbäuerinnen und -bauern und einem malischen G...

In this paper, we argue that target-driven population policy enables the return of technical solutions to reproductive health challenges in the form of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC). We examine two Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) commitments related to promotion of the injectable contraceptive Sayana Press and the implant Jadelle. These...

Germany has only recently started to discuss the possible contribution, on a conceptual basis, of post-colonial theory to development education. Drawing on key policy papers, this article explores how post-colonial and antiracist critiques of German development education have changed the field in the past decade. It first provides the history of de...

This article explores recent changes in international development policy with regard to population and reproductive health and connects these to contemporary dynamics in contraceptive markets, taking the German government and the pharmaceutical company Bayer HealthCare as an example. While the vocabulary of individual reproductive rights remains ev...

Post-Development has reproduced the ‘development gaze’ by focusing on interventions and struggles in the South. This paper draws attention to the German version of degrowth, Postwachstum, as a possible Post-Development approach in the North. It thus contributes to the Post-Development agenda by including the North as a ‘development’ problem and by...

Daniel Bendix examines colonial narratives on childbirth-related practices and abortions in “German East Africa.” After the turn of the twentieth century, German administrators, missionaries, and physicians cautioned against a “population decline,” and East Africans came to be considered a resource in need of “protection.” This chapter highlights h...

This paper investigates how colonial power is rearticulated in policy and practice of German development cooperation in Tanzania. Drawing on archives and interviews, it analyses the emergence of interventions with regard to population control and reproductive health during Germany’s colonisation of ‘German East Africa’ and compares these interventi...

This article investigates whether colonialism is alive in contemporary German development cooperation (GDC) on obstetric care in Tanzania. Drawing on archives and interviews, it compares present-day interventions to German policy in ‘German East Africa’ (GEA) at the beginning of the 20th century. It argues that contemporary development cooperation...

Welche Relevanz hat die Perspektive der postkolonialen Studien für die Politikwissenschaft? Die Frage nach den Auswirkungen der Epoche des Kolonialismus lässt verschiedene Bereiche der Disziplin - darunter Politische Theorie, Geschlechterverhältnisse, Internationale Beziehungen und Politische Systeme - in einem neuen Licht erscheinen. Die in diesem...

Schlagwörter: Entwicklungspolitik, Deutschland, Bevölkerungspolitik, Neomalthusianismus, Demografisierung, Kontrazeptivamärkte, Langzeitverhütungsmittel, öffentlich-private Partnerschaften. ----- Population Policy Reloaded: Between BMZ and Bayer. Abstract This paper explores recent changes in German international development policy with regards to...

While colonial power continues to shape German interventions in the realm of reproductive health in Tanzania, these interventions are also challenged by professionals working in this field. By concentrating on the 'hidden transcripts' of development cooperation, this paper highlights the fact that interventions are marked by doubts, criticism, and...

Contrary to its own goals, development education in Germany tends to reproduce Europe’s global position of power and to silence marginalized students while empowering those who are already empowered. We contend that development education needs to focus on un-learning myths of Northern supremacy by bringing colonialism back into the global equation....

The concept of security sector reform (SSR) entered the repertoire of development cooperation in the late 1990s as a novel aproach emphasising core values such as legality, transparency and accountability, and focusing not only on state security, but also on the safety of individuals. Within this framework, 'local ownership' of reform processes is...