Development and Postcolonial Studies Working Paper Series
On this page you will find all previously published issues of the Development and Postcolonial Studies (DPS) Working Paper Series.
The Development and Postcolonial Studies (DPS) Working Paper Series is published by the Chair of Development and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kassel, until January 2022 supported by the Chair of Global Development at the University Friedensau and the Chair of Global Climate Policy at the University of Hamburg. Since 2023, it cooperates with the Exceed Centre "Global Partnership Network". It provides a forum for innovative research and current debates that provide critical interventions on development studies, postcolonial studies, and their intersection. It welcomes contributions from junior and senior researchers, as well as activist-scholars from Germany and around the world. Manuscripts in English should be sent to development_postcolonial[at]uni-kassel.de, along with a 50-word biography, an abstract of 150-200 words and up to six keywords.
Special Activist Issue
Towards Post-Development in India
November 2023, Ashish Kothari
Sixteenth Issue
Theorising Postdevelopment
November 2023, Aram Ziai
Fifteenth edition
Land Rights for Change? On the Impasses of Cultural Politics for Economic Change
September 2023, Caroline Cornier
Fourteenth edition
The Impacts of the Movement against Neoliberal Globalisation. Institutional Reforms, a New Conception of Politics, and Postcolonial Questions
July 2023, Aram Ziai
Thirteenth edition
Ambivalences of decentralized renewable energies – Towards self-determination or reproduction of postcolonial power relations?
June 2023, Bettina Barthel
Twelfth edition
(How) can public policies enable transformation? - Theory and practice of Post-Development in relation to the state
(¿Cómo) pueden las políticas públicas contribuir a la transformación? - Teoría y práctica del Post-Desarrollo en relación con el Estado (Spanish Version)
April 2023, Ana Agostino and Julia Schöneberg
Eleventh edition
Alternatives to ‘development’? Exploring counter‐hegemonic practices (with)in politics, economies and knowledges
October 2022, Julia Schöneberg
Tenth edition
Mutations of globalisation and local actors’ agency: phenomena of the Social and Solidarity Economy in Uganda’s Busoga region
February 2022, Esther Kronsbein
Ninth edition
Layers of Post-Development: De- and reconstructions in a world in which many worlds exist
February 2021, Julia Schöneberg
Eighth edition
Trouble with ‘Progress’: Serbia, Development and its Narrative Ruptures
September 2020, Jelena Vićentić
Seventh Edition
Bridging the postcolonial political-economy divide. Towards a Theoretical Framework
April 2020, Steffen Haag
Sixth edition
The legitimation of expulsion in development discourse. A comparative analysis of World Bank projects in sub-Saharan Africa
April 2019, Aram Ziai
Fifth edition
In Search for a Decolonizing Actor: Contradictions Between Brazilian State Policies and Social Emancipation of Quilombolas
July 2018, Tereza Ventura
Fourth edition
Partnership and cooperation in Haiti: Clashes of reality and construction
March 2016, Julia Schöneberg
Third edition
In Search for a Decolonizing Actor: Contradictions Between Brazilian State Policies and Social Emancipation of Quilombolas
December 2015, Ana Estefanía Carballo
Second edition
The World Bank Inspection Panel and civil society protest: Glocalization of accountability? The case of the Kwabenya landfill project in Ghana
October 2015, Aram Ziai
First edition
The contribution of discourse analysis to development studies
March 2015, Aram Ziai