In this post, the editors of our latest book give an overview of the book's main intentions and content: "No longer content with tinkering around the edges, (...) chapters explore what a fundamental reconsideration of Development Studies might look like. Contributions explore how our critiques can disrupt and renew understandings of development and articulate a more progressive politics (...). As such, the volume provides a reconsideration of how knowledge is produced, validated, and disseminated. It highlights ways in which transformative processes of knowledge production can be achieved." Read the post

In her critique of the book, Tanja Müller from the Global Development Institute warns of throwing the baby out with the bathwater and refusing modernity and enlightenment altogether: "To hold up the idea of development as an aspiration does not necessarily imply what one may call ‘Western’ knowledge and colonial mindsets. One may call anything that transcends those mindsets post-development, in particular various theorisations of grassroot practices from the Global South, but is post-development not attached to development by the same umbilical cord? Would it not be more helpful to keep up development as an aspiration that can transcend the specifics of capitalist development?" Read the post