Aram Ziai’s research while affiliated with University of Kassel and other places

... Cirillo & Taleb, 2016, covering the period from 1500 to the present; see also next section, below) and the "new wars" thesis (cf. Kaldor, 1999, Münkler, 2005 thus seems to be somewhat overstated (see critically Krieger et al., 2018), there seems to be a link between modern statehood, conflict and displacement that has tended to produce more refugees compared to the pre-modern era. ...

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Refugees

... Although the framing of 'development' or modernization 4 as a 'panacea for all ills', as universally desirable, or as a means to an end (for welfare, overcoming poverty and hunger) has been criticized by various post-development scholars for the concept's euro-centric and authoritarian implications (Ziai 2016, p. 54;Ziai 2015;Escobar 2015), the Global North (the EU in this example) operates (once again) as an 'active' agent, determining paths, conditions, and promises for the envisioned transition to the bioeconomy (Vogelpohl and Töller 2021, p. 144;EU 2018, p. 46). The 'passive' 5 peripheral countries in the Global South and semi-periphery are expected to adhere to this model and apply the same logic when designing their own bioeconomy strategies. ...

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Invisible (bio)economies: a framework to assess the ‘blind spots’ of dominant bioeconomy models

... This study adopted theory of neo-colonialism. This theory has been widely attributed to the writings of the former President of Ghana, Nkrumah (1965) in his publication title: Neo-colonialism: the last stage of imperialism, as a follow up to Lenin's Imperialism: the final stage of capitalism (Ziai, 2020). The title of the works of both scholars cited above underscores the nexus between capitalism and neo-colonialism which describes the activities of the Chinese state in African economies. ...

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Interrogating Chinese going global policy in Nigeria: Implications for Neo-colonialism

... (Bendix, 2013;Jansen, 2019;Langdon, 2013;Sims, 2018 (Mawdsley, , p.2017. 이렇게 급변하는 개발 환경 속에서, 기존 국제개발학 패러다임에 비판적 관점을 견지하고 있는 연구자들은 전통적인 개발 협력 체제와 구분되는 SSC의 차별화된 아이디어, 역사 및 지리적 위치 등에 대한 고민의 필요성이 제기된 것이다 Ruggie, 1983 (Corneliussen, 2021;Dreher & Fuchs, 2015;Naim, 2007 (Bull, 1977;Wight, 1977 동력이 됐다 (Buzan & Little, 2002;Howard, 1984 (Bowden, 2009;Gong, 1984). ...

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For the ‘Diligent yet Impoverished Global South’: Post-Colonial Reconstruction of Korean International Development Study

... Iran, for example, opposes modernization and offers a post-development discourse which is better known as the concept of Gharbzadegi. "The Gharbzadegi discourse has been very influential in modern Iranian history and is seen as a 'manifesto of anti-westernization' [33]. ...

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Negotiating Tradition and Modernity: A Case Study of Hybrid Political Cultures in Village Governance, North Tapanuli, Indonesia

... Being part of a largely energy-independent collective situated in the Global North, my role is an ambivalent one, as, despite efforts at dismantling it, I am still benefitting from the energy system that I criticize. In this sense, my positionality as a White and queer scholar/activist is motivated by my commitment to practicing ecosocial solidarity and post-development in the Global North, both by securing fundamental aspects of living housing, food production, and energy use (Bendix et al., 2019) and by contributing to decolonizing activities in academia (Ziai et al., 2020). ...

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Energy colonialism

... Muti-lateral organisations such as the World Bank, as well as postdevelopment scholars, have called for the end of such distinctions. 5 However, Horner & Hulme's work was widely criticised for its minimalist definition of development (particularly ignoring structural transformation), data and categories used, as well as their alignment with neoliberal approaches to development theory (Fischer 2019;Ghosh 2019;Sumner 2019;Ziai 2019). Since then, more nuanced arguments for Global Development have focussed on the potential of universalist approaches to encourage 'horizontal learning' between the South and North, avoid infantilising the Global South and argued that since poverty exists everywhere, 'development' must be a focus globally (Leach et al. 2021;Gillespie and Mitlin 2023). ...

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Is the Study of Development Humiliating or Emancipatory? The Case Against Universalising ‘Development’

... In Thailand, the critique can be pushed even further. While the present military government aspires to link up to the new Chinese high-speed train network, it uses the concept of sufficiency economy to preach modesty to the poor population and silence all political opposition (Schaffar and Ziai, 2018). ...

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Alternative Paradigms of Development in State Politics and Policy Making in the Global South: An Introduction

... There are calls for a more inclusive engagement with indigenous, communally grounded expertise, such as traditional medicine or agricultural knowledge, and a recognition of pre-colonial scholarly institutions, such as Islamic education in West Africa or Ethiopian monastic schools (de Souza Santos 2015; Abidogun and Falola 2020; Woldegiorgis 2021). Attention is also directed to indigenous notions of development and well-being, including the Latin American concept of 'Buen Vivir,' the Southern African 'Ubuntu,' and the Indian notion of 'Swaraj' (Ziai 2017;Demaria and Kothari 2020;Schoeneberg 2021). ...

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Decolonizing Development Studies: Rejecting or Repurposing the Master’s Tools?

... Supported by the assumption that the Global South is "overpopulated" -although people in the Global North consume many times more resources -there is often a disregard for women's rights, under the banner of poverty reduction: through financial incentives to sterilise impoverished women, long-term contraceptives (banned in Europe) with unpredictable side effects, or through the aim of teaching women to have fewer children and branding their desire to have children as backward, irrational or irresponsible. An instrumentalisation of development cooperation through foreign trade is found in the partnerships with the pharmaceutical industry (and conservative nongovernmental organisations [NGOs] like the Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung [German Foundation for World Population]), which result in development cooperation funds being used to finance contraceptives from BayerHealthCare or Fresenius (Bendix/Schultz 2015Schultz 2006;Bendix/Ziai 2017). ...

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Neokolonialismus in der globalisierten Ökonomie des 21. Jahrhunderts - Ein Überblick