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 exploring the possibilities of practical applications we are departing from the assumption that any imagination of ‘good life’ cannot be connected to the logics of coloniality and capitalism. As a possible frame of action we are therefore departing from the ‘sustainability of life’ as opposed to ‘sustainable development’ in order to explore public policies in the context of social and ecological transformations.
@unpublished{doi:10.17170/kobra-202311249086,
author ={Agostino, Ana and Schönberg, Julia},
title ={(How) can public policies enable transformation? - Theory and practice of Post-Development in relation to the state},
keywords ={300 and Uruguay and Buen Vivir and Post-Development},
copyright ={http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/},
language ={en},
year ={2023-04}
}