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Post-development advocates and decolonial thinkers are calling for radical alternatives to development. The book will be an important guide for students, researchers and practitioners looking for better ways to address the desires and aspirations of marginalised communities in the Global South.
List of contents
1. Introduction
PART I: AMBIVALENCE, NOSTALGIA, COMPLEXITY 2. In search of post-development alternatives:
ubuntu and development in South Africa 3. 'Hardware' and 'software'
bikas: Nepali notions on development and its alternatives 4. Development as nostalgia and reverie in Eastern Rwanda 5. CAMPFIRE and the politics of ambivalence: attitudes towards development in Kanyemba, Zimbabwe
PART II: BUEN VIVIR, LIVING WELL AND WELLBEING 6. The
vivir bien rhetoric and Afro-Bolivian women's struggles for recognition and inclusive citizenship 7. Revisiting the indigeneity-modernity relationship:
vivir bien in the Bolivian Highlands 8. 'Money is a universal need': exploring Indigenous peoples' engagement with externally-led development in the Peruvian Amazon
PART III: ALTERNATIVES? 9. Economies of solidarity in Tehran: new commons and diverse economies on the margins? 10. Ontology in action: ecocentrism as defence of place in Indigenous social movement practices, South Africa 11. Ambivalent perspectives on degrowth and alternatives to development: exploring notions of
kalamboan and
ginhawa in Siquijor province, Philippines 12. Conclusion
