Challenging Global Development : : Towards Decoloniality and Justice.

• Superior document: EADI Global Development Series
• Author: Melber, Henning.
• TeilnehmendeR: Kothari, Uma.; Camfield, Laura.; Biekart, Kees 1958-
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2023.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: EADI Global Development Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (267 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Rethinking Development and Decolonising Development Studies -- The Narrative of Rethinking Development -- The Need for New Perspectives -- References -- 2 Essentialist Approaches to Global Issues: The Ontological Limitations of Development Studies -- Introduction -- Critical Approaches to Development Thinking -- Defining Development Studies -- The Ontological Dimension -- Three Ontological Assumptions -- Development of the Individual -- Development Is Inherently Good -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals: Post-development Alternatives -- Introduction -- Challenging the SDGs -- Post-development: Conceptual Reflections -- Enda Graf Sahel: Supporting Local Networks in Dakar/Senegal -- The Dongria Khond of the Niyamgiri Hills: Indigenous Resistance Against 'Development' in Odisha/India -- The Zapatistas: Armed Insurrection and Regional Autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 In Search of Alternatives to Development: Learning from Grounded Initiatives -- Introduction -- Eco-Swaraj and the Vikalp Sangam Process -- The Alternatives in Various Spheres -- Political Transformations -- Economic Transformations -- Socio-Cultural Transformations -- Ecological Transformations -- What Principles Are Expressed in Alternatives? -- Global Resonance and Networking: Lessons for the Future -- References -- 5 Why Is Development Elusive? Structural Adjustments of Africa in the Longue Durée -- Introduction -- The Five Phases of Structural Adjustments of Africa in the Longue Dureé -- Theory-Praxis Dialectic in Understanding Elusive Development in Africa -- Conclusion: Coloniality of Markets and Market Fundamentalism -- References -- 6 Cultivating Post-development: Pluriversal Transitions and Radical Spaces of Engagement -- Introduction.

Pluriversal Transitions: Ecocultural Identity and Radical Spaces of Engagement -- Territories of Pluriversity -- Pluriversal Social Movements -- Conclusion: Reaping Common Futures from Many Worlds -- References -- 7 Beyond Deconstruction and Towards Decoloniality: Pedagogy and Curriculum Design in SWANA and South Asia Studies in US Higher Education -- Introduction -- Curricular Issues -- Pedagogical Issues -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 Data Collection Versus Knowledge Theft: Relational Accountability and the Research Ethics of Indigenous Knowledges -- Introduction -- Data Versus Knowledge -- Research and Colonisation -- Decolonisation -- Relational Accountability -- Refusal -- Indigenous Data Sovereignty -- Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) and Copyright -- Research Ethics and Protocols -- Reciprocity-'They're Gonna Think I'm Part of the Exhibition!' -- Conclusion: Explaining Reciprocity and Ethical Engagement -- References -- 9 Assuming Power in New Forms: Learning to Feel 'With the Other' in Decolonial Research -- Exchanging experiences of disaster and recovery -- A Quilt of Voices: Thinking-Feeling with the Other -- William -- Carolina -- Lina -- Luis David -- Daniela -- Eliza -- Pablo -- Jaime -- Teresa -- Multiplicity of Positionalities -- References -- Part I Reflections and Epilogues -- 10 Development and Post-development in a Time of Crisis -- Introduction -- Developing a Transformative Agenda -- Limitations -- Development in a Time of Crisis -- References -- 11 South-South Cooperation and Decoloniality -- Introduction -- References -- 12 Decolonising Development Management: Epistemological Shifts and Practical Actions -- Introduction -- Conclusion -- References -- 13 What Is 'Development' and Can We 'Decolonise' It? Some Ontological and Epistemological Reflections -- Introduction.

What Is 'Development'? Coloniality, Development Studies and Higher Education -- Shifting Our Ontological and Epistemological Lenses Towards More Global, Pluriversal Approaches to Understanding Global Social Justice -- Where Do We Go from Here as 'Development' Scholars? -- References -- 14 EADI Roundtable: Recasting Development Studies in Times of Multiple Crises -- Introduction -- Uma Kothari, Professor of Migration and Postcolonial Studies, University of Manchester -- Decoloniality and Development -- Decolonisation Is Not a Metaphor: Repatriation of Objects that Matter -- Ways Forward: Repatriation of Stolen Objects and Reparations as Redistributive Justice -- Repatriation of Objects Stolen -- Reparations -- Possibilities of Decolonial Futures of Development -- Henrice Altink, Professor of Modern History and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC), University of York -- Alfredo Saad-Filho, Professor of Political Economy and International Development, Department of International Development, King's College London -- Melissa Leach, Professor and Director of the Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex -- References.