Elise Klein (editor) - Postdevelopment in Practice: Alternatives, Economies, Ontologies

Postdevelopment in Practice critically engages with recent trends in postdevelopment and critical development studies that have destabilised the concept of development, challenging its assumptions and exposing areas where it has failed in its objectives, whilst also pushing beyond theory to uncover alternatives in practice.

This book reflects a rich and diverse range of experiences in postdevelopment work, bringing together emerging and established contributors from across Latin America, South Asia, Europe, Australia and elsewhere, and it brings to light the multiple and innovative examples of postdevelopment practice already underway. The complexity of postdevelopment alternatives are revealed throughout the chapters, encompassing research on economy and care, art and design, pluriversality and buen vivir, the state and social movements, among others. Drawing on feminisms and political economy, postcolonial theory and critical design studies, the diverse economies and world of the third approaches, and discussions on ontology and interdisciplinary fields such as science and technology studies, the chapters reveal how the practice of postdevelopment is already being carried out by actors in and out of development.

Students, scholars and practitioners in critical development studies and those seeking to engage with postdevelopment will find this book an important guide to applying theory to practice.

Elise Klein is Senior Lecturer of Development Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Carlos Eduardo Morreo teaches Development Studies and International Political Economy in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University.

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Series Editors

Henry Veltmeyer is co-chair of the Critical Development Studies (CDS) network, Research Professor at Universidad Autnoma de Zacatecas, Mexico, and Professor Emeritus at Saint Marys University, Canada.

Paul Bowles is Professor of Economics and International Studies at UNBC, Canada.

Elisa van Wayenberge is Lecturer in Economics at SOAS, University of London, UK.

The global crisis, coming at the end of three decades of uneven capitalist development and neoliberal globalization that have devastated the economies and societies of people across the world, especially in the developing societies of the global south, cries out for a more critical, proactive approach to the study of international development. The challenge of creating and disseminating such an approach, to provide the study of international development with a critical edge, is the project of a global network of activist development scholars concerned and engaged in using their research and writings to help effect transformative social change that might lead to a better world.

This series will provide a forum and outlet for the publication of books in the broad interdisciplinary field of critical development studiesto generate new knowledge that can be used to promote transformative change and alternative development.

The editors of the series welcome the submission of original manuscripts that focus on issues of concern to the growing worldwide community of activist scholars in this field.

To submit proposals, please contact the Development Studies Editor, Helena Hurd (Helena.Hurd@tandf.co.uk).

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Alternatives, Economies, Ontologies

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Names: Klein, Elise, 1983- editor. | Morreo, Carlos Eduardo, editor.

Title: Postdevelopment in practice : alternatives, economies, ontologies / edited by Elise Klein & Carlos Eduardo Morreo.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business, 2019. |

Series: Routledge critical development studies | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018052667 (print) | LCCN 2019004013 (ebook) | ISBN 9780429492136 (Master) | ISBN 9781138588653 (hardback) | ISBN 9781138588677 (pbk.) | ISBN 9780429492136 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Economic developmentDeveloping countries. | CapitalismDeveloping countries.

Classification: LCC HC59.7 (ebook) | LCC HC59.7 .P624 2019 (print) | DDC 338.9009172/4dc23LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018052667

ISBN: 978-1-138-58865-3 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-58867-7 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-49213-6 (ebk)

Alberto Acosta is an Ecuadorian economist and former Minister of Mines and Energy, President of the Constituent Assembly (20072008) and a candidate for the Republics presidency in 2013. He is a professor and researcher at FLACSO-Ecuador and the author of several books, including El Buen Vivir (2013).

Daniel Bendix is a postdoctoral researcher and Lecturer in Development and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kassel, Germany. He is the author of Global Development and Colonial Power: German Development Policy at Home and Abroad (2018).

Sara Caria is faculty member of the Department of Public Economics at the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales (IAEN), Ecuador. Her recent research and academic activities are in the field of development studies, with emphasis on structural transformation and international trade.

Anjan Chakrabarti is Professor of Economics at the University of Calcutta. His present area of interest is Marxian theory and political philosophy. His latest co-authored book is The Indian Economy in Transition: Globalization, Capitalism and Development (2015). He was awarded the VKRV Rao Prize in Economics in 2008.