Postdevelopment in Practice: Alternatives, Economies, Ontologies

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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 experience 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. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures List of tables List of contributors Introduction Postdevelopment Postdevelopment and theoretical links Postdevelopment in practice The chapters Notes References PART I: Theorising a practice of postdevelopment 1. Postdevelopment @ 25: on ‘being stuck’ and moving forward, sideways, backward and otherwise Arturo Gustavo Arturo Gustavo Arturo Gustavo Arturo Gustavo Notes References 2. Postdevelopment in Japan: Revisiting Yoshirou Tamanoi’s theory of regionalism Introduction Regionalism as a project of postdevelopment in Japan Reconstructing the common Four theoretical pillars of the common Unfinished debate: epistemologies of the South Concluding remark Notes References 3. Postdevelopment’s forgotten ‘other roots’ in the Spanish and Latin American history of development thought Introduction Human and ecological development and human-scale development: psychological limits and harmonies Ecuador’s buen vivir as the central goal of public policy Final considerations and future perspectives Notes References 4. Revisiting Transition Introduction Rethinking Marxism Modes of production and transition Class and classification A postfeudal politics Notes References 5. Praxis in world of the third contexts: Beyond third worldism and development studies Postdevelopment: beyond global-local The university unthought:3 from ‘field-work’ to ‘working-in-the-fields’ Beyond theoria: return to phronesis-praxis Beyond practice: beyond poiesis Beyond development Beyond third worldism: rethinking development as reconstruction Notes References 6. Crisis as opportunity: Finding pluriversal paths Notes References and further reading PART II: Siting postdevelopment practice 7. Beyond development: Postcapitalist and feminist praxis in adivasi contexts A postdevelopmental dream in practice Towards a postcapitalist-feminist practice Acknowledgements Notes References 8. Postdevelopment alternatives in the North The North in the postdevelopment debate Food and agriculture: Solawi1 Alternative housing: the case of the ‘Mietshäuser Syndikat’ Alternative energy: the case of ‘Ende Gelände’ Concluding reflections Notes References 9. Who wants a ‘development’ that doesn’t recognise alternatives?: Working with and against postdevelopment in Jagatsinghpur, India Introduction Oppositional development politics Development and postdevelopment The state and self-governance The state, small-scale industrialised capitalism and wage labour Concluding reflections Notes References 10. Economic hybridity in remote Indigenous Australia as development alterity Introduction Economic hybridity in Indigenous Australia Critiques Economic hybridity elsewhere Conclusion References 11. Plurinationality as a strategy: Transforming local state institutions toward buen vivir The ambiguity of the constitutionalization of buen vivir Buen vivir as a territorial postdevelopment practice Expanding communitarian logics, transforming political relations through plurinationality The care of commons: generating well-being collectively Poverty, well-being and standardized institutional development narratives Opening up state institutions for postdevelopment Notes References 12. Surviving well together: Postdevelopment, maternity care, and the politics of ontological pluralism Introduction Multiple ontologies of equity The body multiple in postdevelopment practices of engaged care Practicing a feminist postdevelopment scholarship: maternity care in Laos Conclusion Note References 13. State-funded services delivery as cosmopolitical work: Opportunities for postdevelopment in practice in northern Australia? Introduction In Galiwin’ku In Darwin Research as state-funded service delivery An engagement scorecard: doing the state but not doing Indigenous people-places Videos and elder testimony: doing an Indigenous people-place but not doing the state Designing feedback packages: doing cosmopolitical diplomacy Maintaining the possibility for postdevelopment within the performance of state-funded research as services delivery Notes References 14. Myths of development: Democratic dividends and gendered subsidies of land and social reproduction in Uganda Introduction Rulership and regime changes from the colonial period to the present Peasant struggles and postdevelopment in practice Conclusion Notes References 15. Green and anti-green revolutions in East Timor and Peru:seeds, lies and applied anthropology Introduction The Green Revolution in highland Peru The Green Revolution in East Timor Conclusion Notes References 16. Body Politics and Postdevelopment Feminist writings on body politics Western feminism on bodies as sites of meaning Postcolonial feminism and intersectional analysis Decolonial writings of the body: beyond gender? Challenging the intimate Confronting racism Reworlding and Indigenous resistances Conclusion Notes References 17. Manoeuvring political realms: Alternatives to development in Haiti In search of practised alternatives to development Discourses of social organisation and civil society Social organisation in Haiti and the relevance of peasant solidarity groups Case study: Local self-help and solidarity structures – Oganisasyon Peyizan (OP) Case study: The Kolektif Jistis Min (KJM) Overcoming dualisms through alliance building Conclusions Notes References 18. Technoaffective Reinscriptions: Networks of care and critique ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ of Europe in the age of precarity Technologies of silence, archival power and the sonic action Transmission, networks of care and critique and the cannibal fugue Technoaffective reinscriptions Notes References 19. Design futuring in a borderland of postdevelopment Part one Techno-colonialism Part two Futuring and design futures Design and/in the Global South Notes References 20. Is Contemporary Art Postdevelopmental?: A study of ‘art as NGO’ Art as NGO: The Silent University Art labour Art as NGO and the politics of labour Social practice: the value of collaboration/collectivity Is contemporary art postdevelopmental? Notes References Concluding remarks and an invitation Postdevelopment in practice: an invitation Index