300662 From Economic Growth to Life-Centred Alternatives: Theories of Post-Development (MA: Soziologie der Globalen Welt) (S) (WiSe 2024/2025)

In the Global South, there is a widespread conviction that
development has failed and that a Eurocentric and growth-biased perspective has
largely ignored local knowledge and Indigenous voices (Ribeiro and
Escobar 2006). In many cases, large-scale and infrastructural
development has even threatened livelihood and the environment. In
this course, we want to study scholarship and epistemologies from the Global South,
their critique of previous ideologies of development and growth, and alternative ways to think of
development as regeneration. In this alternative
Philosophy of development as a way of life, we want to give attention to life-centered approaches from
Indigenous people. Studying approaches from the Global South, we
stress decolonization, environmental peace, and feminism. Furthermore, we
want to reflect on new ways of partnership between the North and the South and ways of
rethinking and reforming German development cooperation and
humanitarian aid.

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