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This open access book presents contributions to decolonize development studies. It seeks to promote and sustain new forms of solidarity and conviviality that work towards achieving social justice.Recognising global poverty and inequalities as historic injustices, the book addresses how these can be challenged through teaching, research, and engagement in policy and practice, and the sorts of political barriers these might encounter. From a variety of perspectives and contexts, these chapters examine how decoloniality and solidarity can be developed, offering in-depth historical, theoretical, epistemological, and empirical analyses.
List of contents
Chapter 1.Rethinking development and decolonising development studies.- Chapter 2. Essentialist approaches to global issues: the ontological limitations of development studies.- Chapter 3. Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals: Post-development Alternatives.- Chapter 4. In search of alternatives to development: learning from grounded initiatives.- Chapter 5. Why Is Development Elusive? Structural Adjustments of Africa in the Longue durée.- Chapter 6. Cultivating post-development: pluriversal transitions and radical spaces of engagement.- Chapter 7. Beyond Deconstruction and Toward Decoloniality: Pedagogy and Curriculum Design in SWANA & South Asia Studies in US Higher Education.- Chapter 8. Data collection versus knowledge theft: relational accountability and the research ethics of Indigenous knowledges.- Chapter 9. Assuming power in new forms: Learning to feel 'with the other' in decolonial research.- Chapter 10. Development and Post-development in a Time of Crisis.- Chapter 11. South-South Cooperation and Decoloniality.- Chapter 12. Decolonising Development Management: Epistemological Shifts and Practical actions.- Chapter 13. What is 'development', and can we 'decolonise' it? Some ontological and epistemological reflections.- Chapter 14. EADI Roundtable: Re-casting development studies in times of multiple crises.
