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Alternatives to ‘development’? Exploring counter‐hegemonic practices (with)in politics, economies and knowledges
(2022-10)
Postdevelopment (PD) proponents have long called for alternatives to ‘development’ as a counter to the logics and impact of Eurocentrism, coloniality and the uncritical belief in euro-modernist ideologies of progress and growth, all of which come to be subsumed as ‘development.’ The question is whether we can think of alternatives to hegemonic models of the economy, politics and knowledge whilst living and being entangled in, through and with them. This paper sets out to examine concrete social and political practices ...
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The Impacts of the Movement against Neoliberal Globalisation. Institutional Reforms, a New Conception of Politics, and Postcolonial Questions
(2023-06)
This article discusses the protest movement against the neoliberal capitalist world order which emerged in the second half of the 1990s and was inspired by the Mexican Zapatistas. This movement was considerably globalised and, despite different currents, characterised by a pluralist and anarchist conceptualization of politics. The article argues that it partly succeeded in preventing further liberalisation of world trade and, above all, that it provoked numerous reforms in the global political economy institutions ...
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(How) can public policies enable transformation? - Theory and practice of Post-Development in relation to the state
(2023-04)
The Post-Development critique of ‘development’ has been around for more than 30 years now. While it is far from a homogenous school of thought, let alone practice, critical interventions of Post-Development proponents have been widely acknowledged and have punctuated mainstream debates. What is missing, however, is some closer engagement with how ideas and propositions can be translated to practice, and even more specifically, if and how they are reconcilable with logics, structures and institutions of states. In ...
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Land Rights for Change? On the Impasses of Cultural Politics for Economic Change
(2023-09)
Property relations have long been at the centre of social justice considerations and efforts for socio-economic change. Since the 1990s ethnic minorities who often happen to live in particularly biodiverse regions of the planet have started to challenge these often exploitative relations by claiming formal property rights based on territorially defined cultural identities. Originally celebrated by various critical schools of thought as a turning point in global neoliberal hegemony and a promising manifestation of ...
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The legitimation of expulsion in development discourse. A comparative analysis of World Bank projects in sub-Saharan Africa
(2019)
Comparing examples from Kenia, Ethiopia and Nigeria, the article examines how displacement through infrastructure projects is being legitimised in development discourse. Three typical justifications are the inevitability of progress, the greater common good and property rights. They are closely linked to elements of development discourse: the transformation of geocultural differences into historical stages, Othering of allegedly backward peoples, the concept of trusteeship and the assumption of the beneficial effects ...
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Partnership and cooperation in Haiti: Clashes of reality and construction
(2016)
This paper analyses existent and perceived rules and restrictions of the global development dispositif working to maintain inequalities in interactions of International NGOs (INGOs) and Haitian organisations. It does so by exploring constructions of partnership and their clashing realities. Development organisations and agencies have influenced the fabric of Haitian society and politics not only by their mere presence but also by the rules they impose. The paper approaches this by identifying positions of power and ...
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Towards Post Development in India. Lessons of Community Resilience in Times of Crises
(2023-11)
DPS Activist Special I ssue is published alongside the standard academic issue to provide a perspective from an activist positionality on postcolonial and development issues.
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Theorising Postdevelopment
(2023-11)
The paper seeks to define and situate postdevelopment (PD) theory within the social sciences by discussing its relation to other theoretical approaches. It concludes that PD can be seen to a rather limited extent as a development theory, but rather as a sociology of knowledge of this discipline and a critiqu e of its foundation. PD shares the critique of capitalism with Marxism but also has a more negative view of industrial modernity, its relation to nature, economic growth and productivity. For some, PD is characterized ...
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Legal Aid Ontario lawyers organizing against the odds: A case study of professional workers unionizing
(kassel university press, 2020-06)
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Assessing the Level of Self-Reliance and Livelihood of Encamped Refugees
(Rainer Hampp Verlag, 2020)
Achieving self-reliance among refugees is favoured by many international organisations, though hardly achieved for refugee camps. In many cases, deprived of their human rights, located in remote areas and without access to the local labour market, encamped refugees have no other opportunity than turning to negative coping mechanisms to survive, including sex work, child labour, crime and dangerous work in the informal sector. This book concentrates on measuring self-reliance and identifying factors influencing it in ...