Post-Development from the Global South

Radical Alternatives or Ambivalent Engagements?
Herausgeber: Castellsague, Alba; Matthews, Sally

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Rethinking Development
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 234mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9781032762968
• ISBN-10: 1032762969
• Artikelnr.: 72175757

Inhaltsangabe

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