Decolonising Development Flashcards
what is the post-development critique?
calls for thorough changes in the capitalist global economy but also how society relates to nature and is a comprehensive critique to the development project
what is the pluriverse
many possible ways of knowing and living
SOURCE: Encountering Development
Escobar, 1995
encountering development book
cali caucu valley: exhaustion of soils, sediments in the water, loss of BD, deforestation
60% of population impoverished
how to fix the cali cauca valley problem
long-term bottom-up and co-produced
‘oil to soil’
oil: the mechanised industrial paradigm ruled by global markets
soil: planet centric paradigm that is people oriented, consructed of decentralised biodiversity based organ food and energy systems
SOURCE: oil to soil
Vandana Shiva
Buen Vivir
individual fulfillment that is based on belonging to a socio-environmental collective
summary of post-development discourse
comprehensive critique to the development project and its assumptions of modernisation
calls for thorough changes in the capitalist global economy and how society relates to nature
what are the three alternative ways of thinking about development?
buen vivir, ubuntu, and eco-swaraj
what is degrowth?
reduction of social metabolism (the energy and material throughput of the economy needed to meet existing biophysical constraints imposed by natural resource limits and ecosystem assimilative capacity
what does degrowth challenge?
omnipresent market-based relations and growth-based roots of social imaginary
degrowth calls for:
an equitable redistribution of wealth within and across the GN/GS as well as between present and future generations
SOURCE: critiques of MDGs and SDGs
Liverman, 2018
SOURCE: feminist analysis of power and SDGs
Esquivel, 2016
