Global Development and Colonial Power: German Development Policy at Home and Abroad (Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions) - Softcover

Bendix, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786603500 ISBN 13: 9781786603500

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2019

Synopsis

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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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786603500
• ISBN 13: 9781786603500
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208