- Title
- Afrikanische Entwicklungsalternativen: Ubuntu und die Post-Development-Debatte
- Creator
- Matthews, Sally
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142157
- Identifier
- vital:38054
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.3224/peripherie.v38i2.03
- Description
- In post-development theory, ubuntu is often cited as an example of an “alternative to development”. This article investigates whether ubuntu can play this role and what to think of the demand for alternatives to development in general. In order to do this, the paper fi rst deals with central aspects of postdevelopment theory and the debate about ubuntu. Although the concept fi ts well into a post-development perspective, the attempts to contrast ubuntu with Western ideas and ways of life are often fueled by the desire to rekindle an original, pre-colonial, authentic African philosophy. Yet discourses on Africa are always embedded in Western discourses, so this opposition reproduces precisely those dichotomies it aims to fi ght. More generally, this also holds true for the idea of “alternatives to development”, which postulate an essential opposition to “development”. This, however, denies claims for equal rights and participation at the root of demands for “development”. The struggle for these claims cannot be fought beyond the existing global order. Instead of engaging in romanticizing projections about an Africa beyond “development”, people’s views and needs should be taken as the starting point for the struggle against injustice and inequality.
- Format
- 3 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- PERIPHERIE–Politik• Ökonomie• Kultur
- Relation
- Matthews, S., 2018. Afrikanische Entwicklungsalternativen. Ubuntu und die Post-Development-Debatte. PERIPHERIE–Politik• Ökonomie• Kultur, 38(150-151).
- Relation
- PERIPHERIE–Politik• Ökonomie• Kultur volume 38 number 10 150 151 2018 0173-184X
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- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Budrich Journals Open Access Statement (https://www.budrich-journals.de/index.php/peripherie/pages/view/openaccess)
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