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Welche Relevanz hat die Perspektive der postkolonialen Studien für die Politikwissenschaft? Die Frage nach den Auswirkungen der zu Ende gegangenen Epoche des Kolonialismus lässt verschiedene Bereiche der Diszip2lin - darunter Politische Theorie, Geschlecht

Welche Relevanz hat die Perspektive der postkolonialen Studien für die Politikwissenschaft? Die Frage nach den Auswirkungen der Epoche des Kolonialismus lässt verschiedene Bereiche der Disziplin - darunter Politische Theorie, Geschlechterverhältnisse, Internationale Beziehungen und Politische Systeme - in einem neuen Licht erscheinen.Die in diesem Band versammelten postkolonialen Analysen politischer Theorien, Institutionen und Prozesse, die sich auf empirischer und theoretischer Ebene bewegen, machen eurozentrische Strukturen und koloniale Argumentationsmuster in der Politikwissenschaft, in der Politikpraxis auf deutscher und internationaler Ebene sowie in postkolonialen Ländern sichtbar.

The manner in which people have been talking and writing about 'development' and the rules according to which they have done so have evolved over time. Development Discourse and Global History uses the archaeological and genealogical methods of Michel Foucault to trace the origins of development discourse back to late colonialism and notes the significant discontinuities that led to the establishment of a new discourse and its accompanying industry. This book goes on to describe the contestations, appropriations and transformations of the concept. It shows how some of the trends in development discourse since the crisis of the 1980s – the emphasis on participation and ownership, sustainable development and free markets – are incompatible with the original rules and thus lead to serious contradictions. The Eurocentric, authoritarian and depoliticizing elements in development discourse are uncovered, whilst still recognizing its progressive appropriations. The author concludes by analysing the old and new features of development discourse which can be found in the debate on Sustainable Development Goals and discussing the contribution of discourse analysis to development studies. This book is aimed at researchers and students in development studies, global history and discourse analysis as well as an interdisciplinary audience from international relations, political science, sociology, geography, anthropology, language and literary studies.

Entwicklungstheorie befasst sich mit sozialem Wandel und globaler Ungleichheit – meist aus der impliziten Perspektive des Westens. Dennoch finden sich hier bisweilen innovative Stimmen, denen der vorliegende Band ein Forum bietet. Dabei versammelt er unterschiedlichste Perspektiven: politökonomische und postkoloniale, spieltheoretische und wissenssoziologische, Modernisierungstheorie und Weltsystemtheorie. Vor allem aber unterzieht er die Entwicklungstheorie selbst einer kritischen Reflexion.Aram Ziai ist Sprecher der Sektion Entwicklungstheorie und Entwicklungspolitik der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft und erforscht das Fachgebiet aus einer diskursanalytischen und postkolonialen Perspektive.Mit Beiträgen von:Philipp Dann, Malte Gephart, Robert Kappel, Reinhart Kößler, Philipp Lepenies, Julia Sattelberger, Stefan Schmalz, Johannes Schmitt, Ingrid Wehr, Aram Ziai

AbstractThe paper seeks to define and situate postdevelopment (PD) theory within the social sciences by discussing its relation to other theoretical approaches. It concludes that PD can be seen to a rather limited extent as a development theory, but rather as a sociology of knowledge of this discipline and a critique of its foundation. PD shares the critique of capitalism with Marxism but also has a more negative view of industrial modernity, its relation to nature, economic growth and productivity. For some, PD is characterized by a spirituality alien to western modernity, although this does not seem to be necessary to subscribe to the approach. Although PD's critique is intimately related to ecofeminist thinking (and ecofeminist authors), many of its male protagonists seem unaware of this proximity. PD is clearly a postcolonial (or decolonial) critique of colonial and neocolonial relations of power which can be found also in knowledge production, in particular in the division between the 'developed' Self (Europe and European settler colonies and other societies emulating them) and the 'backward' Other. And PD, at the least sceptical PD, is based on a post-anarchist perspective of ontological equality, oriented towards self-determination in the pluriverse and rearguard theories.