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“The struggle against neo-colonialism is not aimed at excluding the capital of the developed world from operating in less developed countries. It is aimed at preventing the financial power of the developed countries being used in such a way as to impoverish the less developed.”
Nkrumah, 1965, Neocolonialism. The Last Stage of Imperialism, p.5
"Measures of democracy and legitimacy are often conflated. This is especially problematic in post-conflict countries where the level of democracy is often very low and alternative forms of legitimacy are nevertheless present..."
Dagher, R. (2021). Reconstructing our Understanding of State Legitimacy in Post-Conflict States: Building on Local Perspectives: Palgrave Macmillan.
“To decolonize knowledge, we would need, at a minimum, to deconstruct the national origin of knowledge and, of course, of power.”
Ivekovic, R. (2012). Conditions d’une dénationalisation et décolonisation des savoirs. Mouvements, 4(72), 36.
"Starting the story of ‘development’ and ‘aid’ in the present as disconnected from the past turns questions of responsibility and structural reform into matters of empathy and generosity...”
Paige, S. (2021), Time to Decolonize Aid: Insights and lessons from a global consultation, Peace Direct, 2021. p.20
Post-development also suffers from a ‘white gaze’ problem in that it remains conspicuously silent on race, racism and racialized forms of Northern hegemony.
Pailey, R. N. (2020). De-centring the ‘White Gaze’ of Development. Development and Change, 51(3), 739.
“The silence or ignorance of racism in our field, far from being a passive absence or simply referring to ‘not knowing’, has an epistemology that produces and normalises racism as a political system.”
Sriprakash, A., Tikly, L., & Walker, S. (2020). The erasures of racism in education and international development: re-reading the ‘global learning crisis.’ Compare, 50(5), 677.
“Unfortunately, another lesson from history is that rich countries have ‘pulled up the ladder’ by imposing free-market and free-trade policies on poor countries…”
Chang, H. (2007) Bad Samaritans, 36. The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008), p.36.
"The cognitive empire/metaphysical empire operates through the invasion of the mental universe of its victims, in the process emptying the hard disk of African memory and downloading into African minds the software of European memory"
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. J. (2020). Decolonization, development and knowledge in Africa: turning over a new leaf. Routledge. Chapitre 2. p.29
“Unfortunately, another lesson from history is that rich countries have ‘pulled up the ladder’ by imposing free-market and free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past.”
Chang, H. (2007) Bad Samaritans, 36. The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008), p.36.
Post-development also suffers from a ‘white gaze’ problem in that it remains conspicuously silent on race, racism and racialized forms of Northern hegemony.
Pailey, R. N. (2020). De-centring the ‘White Gaze’ of Development. Development and Change, 51(3), 739.
“The silence or ignorance of racism in our field, far from being a passive absence or simply referring to ‘not knowing’, has an epistemology that produces and normalises racism as a political system.”
Sriprakash, A., Tikly, L., & Walker, S. (2020). The erasures of racism in education and international development: re-reading the ‘global learning crisis.’ Compare, 50(5), 677.
"Measures of democracy and legitimacy are often conflated. This is especially problematic in post-conflict countries where the level of democracy is often very low and alternative forms of legitimacy are nevertheless present..."
Dagher, R. (2021). Reconstructing our Understanding of State Legitimacy in Post-Conflict States: Building on Local Perspectives: Palgrave Macmillan.
"The cognitive empire/metaphysical empire operates through the invasion of the mental universe of its victims, in the process emptying the hard disk of African memory and downloading into African minds the software of European memory"
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. J. (2020). Decolonization, development and knowledge in Africa: turning over a new leaf. Routledge. Chapitre 2. p.29
“The struggle against neo-colonialism is not aimed at excluding the capital of the developed world from operating in less developed countries. It is aimed at preventing the financial power of the developed countries being used in such a way as to impoverish the less developed.”
Nkrumah, 1965, Neocolonialism. The Last Stage of Imperialism, p.5
“To decolonize knowledge, we would need, at a minimum, to deconstruct the national origin of knowledge and, of course, of power.”
Ivekovic, R. (2012). Conditions d’une dénationalisation et décolonisation des savoirs. Mouvements, 4(72), 36.
"Starting the story of ‘development’ and ‘aid’ in the present as disconnected from the past turns questions of responsibility and structural reform into matters of empathy and generosity...”
Paige, S. (2021), Time to Decolonize Aid: Insights and lessons from a global consultation, Peace Direct, 2021. p.20
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