Global Development and Colonial Power

German Development Policy at Home and Abroad

AvDaniel Bendix

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Although Germany was one of the principal colonising nations in Africa and today is the world’s second largest aid donor, there is no literature on the postcolonial condition of contemporary German development policy. This book explores German development endeavours by state institutions as well as NGOs, and provides evidence of development policy’s unacknowledged entanglement in colonial modes of thought and practice. It zooms in on concrete policies and practices in selected fields of intervention: development education and billboard advertising in Germany, and – taking Tanzania as a case in point – obstetric care and population control in the Global South. The analysis finds that disregarding colonial continuities means to perpetuate the inequalities and injustices that development policy claims to fight. This book argues that colonial power in global development needs to be understood as functioning through the transnational character of development policy at home and abroad.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-06-13
Mått:152 x 220 x 15 mm
Vikt:322 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781786603500

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Daniel Bendix is a Professor for Global Development at Friedensau Adventist University, Germany.

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Daniel Bendix's rigorous, daring and original analysis challenges dominant understandings of history and development by engaging with the violences, paradoxes and present effects of Germany's colonial power. Bendix invites readers to open horizons for postcolonial futures by facing their complicity in systemic harm and the complexities of our planetary interdependence. This book offers a major contribution to international debates about the historical and systemic (re)production of global inequalities.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction / 2. German Colonialism, Development Policy and Colonial Power / 3. Development Education and the (De-)Stabilisation of Colonial Power / 4. Billboard Advertising and the Potential for Subverting Colonial Power / 5. Transforming Childbirth-Related Care in East Africa and Challenges to Colonial Power / 6. Controlling Population in East Africa / Conclusion: Colonial Power Transnationally, the German Case and Postcolonial Future