Global Partnerships and Neocolonialism

Aram Ziai is Chair of Development and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kassel and Executive Director of the Global Partnership Network (GPN).Praveen Jha is Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University.Jule Lümmen is Student of Global Political Economy and Development and Student Assistant at the Global Partnership Network (GPN).

• Chapter 1.- Introduction: Global Partnerships and Neocolonialism.- Chapter 2 Prospects of Solidarity in the Era of Neocolonialism.- Chapter 3Partnership Instead of Colonialism? The Origins and Colonial Elements of Development Cooperation.- Chapter 4 International “Development” Cooperation and Social Change from Below. Challenges to the Viability of a Social and Solidarity Economy in Haiti 2010-2020.- Chapter 5 Neocolonialism Facilitated by the World Bank? A Case Study of the World Bank’s Involvement in the Development of Guyana’s Oil and Gas Sector.- Chapter 6 Global Energy Partnerships. Green Colonialism and an Ecological New International Economic Order.- Chapter 7 Transcending Imperialist/Sub Imperialist Partnerships.- Chapter 8 Fairtrade Certification of Commercial Farms: The Case of South African Wine Farms.- Chapter 9. From Colonial Nursing to an Imperial Mode of Reproduction.- Chapter 10 Knowledge Production for “Development” – Challenges and Pitfalls of Decolonization.- Chapter 11 Recognizing Complicity and our Unwillingness (and Inability) to do so.- Chapter 12  In Search of a Democratic Eco-Socialist Politics.