Global Development and Colonial Power (Hardcover)

Hardcover. Although Germany was one of the principal colonising nations in Africa and today is the worlds second largest aid donor, there is no literature on the postcolonial condition of contemporary German development policy. This book explores German development endeavours by state institutions as well as NGOs, and provides evidence of development policys unacknowledged entanglement in colonial modes of thought and practice. It zooms in on concrete policies and practices in selected fields of intervention: development education and billboard advertising in Germany, and taking Tanzania as a case in point obstetric care and population control in the Global South. The analysis finds that disregarding colonial continuities means to perpetuate the inequalities and injustices that development policy claims to fight. This book argues that colonial power in global development needs to be understood as functioning through the transnational character of development policy at home and abroad. Explores the (post)colonial condition of German development policy, particularly in the Global South. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …