Global Development and Colonial Power : German Development Policy at Home and Abroad

Daniel Bendix

ISBN 10: 1786603500 / ISBN 13: 9781786603500

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781786603500

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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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Daniel Bendix is Professor of Global Development at the School of Social Sciences at Friedensau Adventist University, Germany. Franziska Müller is Assistant Professor for Globalization and Climate Governance at the University of Hamburg's Department of Social Sciences.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Global Development and Colonial Power : ...
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
Einband: Taschenbuch
Zustand: Neu