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December 2017
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Few books in the history of development studies have had an impact like The Development Dictionary – A Guide to Knowledge as Power, which was edited by Wolfgang Sachs and published by Zed Books in 1992, and which was crucial in establishing what has become known as the Post-Development (PD) school. This special issue is devoted to the legacy of this book and thus to discussing PD.
August 2017
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PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur
August 2017
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PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur
June 2017
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During the course of the 1990s, the Post-Development school emerged as an innovative though controversial approach in development studies. The article examines its critical reception in the textbooks and the extent to which its authors and arguments have become influential. It argues that the relationship between development studies and Post-Development is characterised simultaneously by (sometimes explicit, sometimes implicit) rejection and integration. Examining a number of current development studies textbooks, it illustrates the growing influence of Post-Development arguments and how they have been tacitly or consciously taken up while often rejecting Post-Development per se.
July 2016
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The chapter examines the constitution of the discourse of ‘development’ in the first half on the twentieth century and its appropriation and contestation in the second half. In the context of the World Wars, anti-colonial movements, the Russian Revolution and the Great Depression, a new way of representing territories and peoples in the ‘South’ emerged, which abandoned the claim of White supremacy but clung to the principle of trusteeship. After decolonization, elites in the ‘South’ appropriated the concept of ‘development’ for their own ends, affirming the principle of trusteeship on the national level while rejecting and condemning it on the international level. Simultaneously, they used the label ‘less developed’ to articulate demands for financial transfers and special treatment in the UN system. Yet, the discourse itself was not contested. Two of these recent contestations, the discourse of participation and ownership on the one hand, and of Post-Development on the other hand, are discussed here. Both reveal what Foucault has called the tactical polyvalence of discourses—the same discourses can be used for different political ends.
May 2016
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Eine Analyse gegenwärtig verwendeter Schulbücher in den Fächern Erdkunde und Sozialwissenschaften ergibt, dass Menschen aus dem globalen Süden immer noch als passiv und hilfsbedürftig repräsentiert werden. „Überbevölkerung“ wird als Hauptursache von Armut dargestellt, Entwicklungszusammenarbeit als Lösung von Problemen im Süden, und Kolonialismus als ein ambivalentes Unterfangen mit sowohl positiven als auch negativen Aspekten.
December 2015
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PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur
Schlagwörter: Entwicklungspolitik, Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, BMZ, Regierungswechsel ----- German Development Policy: An Analysis of the Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development under Liberal & Social Democratic Leadership. Abstract This article analyses and compares German development policy, as expressed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), during two different leadership periods. From 2009-2013 the BMZ was led by Dirk Niebel from the Liberal Party (FDP) whereas from 1998-2009 BMZ leadership was held by Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul from the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Three different underlying logics help to differentiate BMZ measures: a logic of geopolitics, a logic of economics, and a logic of ‘genuine’ development. In analysing the underlying logics of BMZ measures during the two different leadership periods, the paper concludes that the change in office allowed for new nitiatives and a shift in focus, however this shift was least prominent in the area of economic policy. The findings support the hypothesis that even though development policy operates in the field of foreign policy and has its own specific logics, it nevertheless has to take into account the accumulation of national capital. Keywords: development policy, development cooperation, BMZ, change of government
August 2015
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... 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
January 2018
... 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. ...
August 2015
... 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. ...
October 2020
Momentum Quarterly - Zeitschrift für sozialen Fortschritt
... (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). ...
October 2020
... 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]. ...
October 2019
Development
... 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
March 2019
... 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). ...
March 2019
Development and Change
... 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). ...
July 2018
PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur
... 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). ...
December 2017
... 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). ...
August 2017
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