Writing Entangled Histories of Development

Beschreibung

This paper addresses the history of development in Africa as a set of discursive and non-discursive practices that have shaped and defined relations between the local and the global, between Africa and the world from the colonial period to the present. My focus is on development thinking in African and European narrative writing of the interwar period with an emphasis on French colonial literature of the 1930s. In analyzing discourses and representations of rural development and agricultural technology I will argue for a transdisciplinary approach to the history of development combining perspectives from cultural and literary studies with development theory and colonial history. I will show how narrative analysis contributes to the understanding of “development” as a central paradigm of global governance in 20th century. The paper draws on the results of a three years interdisciplinary research project “Colonial concepts of development in Africa, 1920-1960”, conducted at the University of Vienna (2009-2013).

Zeitraum	25 Feb. 2017
Ereignistitel	ISA 58th Annual Convention 2017: Understanding Change in World Politics
Veranstaltungstyp	Konferenz
Ort	Baltimore, USA / Vereinigte Staaten, MarylandAuf Karte anzeigen
Bekanntheitsgrad	International