{"id":1074,"date":"2020-01-03T15:47:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T14:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.convivialthinking.org\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2020-01-10T12:40:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T11:40:24","slug":"its-all-about-post-and-de","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/convivialthinking.org\/index.php\/2020\/01\/03\/its-all-about-post-and-de\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all about &#8220;Post-&#8221; and &#8220;De-&#8220;: Some (Dis-)entanglements of Post- and Decolonialism and Postdevelopment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Julia Sch\u00f6neberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starting to read about critical perspectives towards \u201cdevelopment\u201d you will soon encounter post- and decolonial literature and arguments, popping up regularly as catchwords. Both are not homogenous streams of thought, but rather certain standpoints from which \u201cdevelopment\u201d, capitalism, Eurocentrism, Anthropocentrism and the ongoing legacies of colonialism are critiqued and contested.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then, you may notice that likewise postdevelopment (PD) comes with a \u201cpost-\u201c prefix. How to make sense of all the \u201cpost\u201d and \u201cde\u201d? How do they all connect?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You\u2019re confused? Fret not and look no further, <strong>here\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/convivialthinking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PD_zine5a_20200103.pdf\">zine<\/a> for you!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1076 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/convivialthinking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20200103_153948-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/convivialthinking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20200103_153948-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/convivialthinking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20200103_153948-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Print it, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.umamidesign.com\/ud-content\/2013\/09\/ud_130918_zine-instructions.jpg\">fold it<\/a>, read it, share it!<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to read up on postdevelopment first? <a href=\"https:\/\/convivialthinking.org\/index.php\/2019\/02\/17\/post-development-just-an-utopian-abstract-critque-of-development-or-practical-starting-point-for-development-from-below\/\">Here&#8217;s a zine with a very, very brief introduction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You&#8217;re still confused, because this is the first zine crossing your path?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As you know, the aim of the Convivial Thinking Collective is to push boundaries of traditional, oftentimes restrictive, forms of knowledge production and sharing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pushing these boundaries sometimes means experimenting and one result of\u00a0 these experiments are our zines. Zines are self-published, non-commercial, low-cost little booklets that can easily be reproduced and shared. If you will, this is a small scale protest to the monopoly of academic publishers and the exclusionary structures of publishing, knowledge production and dissemination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Julia Sch\u00f6neberg Starting to read about critical perspectives towards \u201cdevelopment\u201d you will soon encounter post- and decolonial literature and arguments, popping up regularly as catchwords. Both are not homogenous streams of thought, but rather certain standpoints from which \u201cdevelopment\u201d, capitalism, Eurocentrism, Anthropocentrism and the ongoing legacies of colonialism are critiqued and contested. Then, you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/convivialthinking.org\/index.php\/2020\/01\/03\/its-all-about-post-and-de\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s all about &#8220;Post-&#8221; and &#8220;De-&#8220;: Some (Dis-)entanglements of Post- and Decolonialism and Postdevelopment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,21,28,37],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","tag-decoloniality","tag-development","tag-post-development","tag-zine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/convivialthinking.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/convivialthinking.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/convivialthinking.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/convivialthinking.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/convivialthinking.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/convivialthinking.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"https:\/\/convivialthinking.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/convivialthinking.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/convivialthinking.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/convivialthinking.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}