Global Development and Colonial Power - German Development Policy At Home and Abroad

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Daniel Bendix is a Professor for Global Development at Friedensau Adventist University, Germany. He gained his PhD from Manchester University and writes freelance material for glokal, a postcolonial education NGO based in Berlin. He is on the editorial board of the academic journal PERIPHERIE (Politics, Economy and Culture).

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Bendix
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781786603500
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-350-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions; Kilombo: International Relatio
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Politik und Staat, Germany, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Activism, Africa, Development Policy, Development Studies, Europe, Global South, Inequalities, International Relations, NGOs, Policy, Postcolonialism, Colonialism & imperialism, Aid & relief programmes, Colonialism and imperialism, Development Studies, Aid and relief programmes