300055 Controversial Development(s) - Postdevelopmental and Postcolonial Perspectives on Development theory and Practice (S) (SoSe 2009)

Two new schools of thought challenge established notions and concepts, perspectives and prescriptions of mainstream development studies. These schools, postdevelopment and postcolonial perspectives, add a new quality of critical interrogation to a field that has witnessed remarkable diversification over the last 20 years. Postdevelopmental approaches have especially generated controversy within the field. While early post-ist inspired writing has been criticised for essentialising development while failing to offer viable alternative approaches, more recent publications demonstrate the practical usefulness of the approaches for scientific inquiry. After an initial phase of conflictual debate, the discussion has thus spawned a fruitful controversy as even the critics of postdevelopmental and postcolonial perspectives have conceded to the fact that they have provided vital impulses to both theory and research. Postdevelopmental and postcolonial approaches on the other hand have also differentiated their approaches to offer more nuanced accounts. Tracing this controversy through selected readings broadens students understanding of the diversification of developmental discourse and practice and provides innovative theoretical and methodological points of departure for research.

The course will be offered as a block seminar, with preparatory sessions in May and a block session in June.

Literaturangaben:

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