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.
Interested authors can find more information on the GPN Working Papers website.
Issue #19
Postdevelopment and Anti-Colonial Struggle: Exploring Statism, Social War and Modernity in the Pluriverse.
June 2025, Xander Dunlap
Issue #20
Post-development, Temporality and a ‘Critical Theory of Hope’
October 2025, Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
Special Issue Activism
Towards Post-Development in India
November 2023, Ashish Kothari
Issue #17
Anti-Imperial Epistemic Justice: Notes on ‘Post Development’, Rights Politics and Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences
February 2025, Sumi Madhok
Issue #13
Ambivalences of decentralized renewable energies – Towards self-determination or reproduction of postcolonial power relations?
June 2023, Bettina Barthel
Issue #14
The Impacts of the Movement against Neoliberal Globalisation. Institutional Reforms, a New Conception of Politics, and Postcolonial Questions
July 2023, Aram Ziai
Issue #15
Land Rights for Change? On the Impasses of Cultural Politics for Economic Change
September 2023, Caroline Cornier
Issue #10
Mutations of globalisation and local actors’ agency: phenomena of the Social and Solidarity Economy in Uganda’s Busoga region
February 2022, Esther Kronsbein
Issue #11
Alternatives to ‘development’? Exploring counter‐hegemonic practices (with)in politics, economies and knowledges
October 2022, Julia Schöneberg
Issue #12
(How) can public policies enable transformation? - Theory and practice of Post-Development in relation to the state [also in Spanish]
April 2023, Ana Agostino and Julia Schöneberg
Issue #7
Bridging the postcolonial political-economy divide. Towards a Theoretical Framework
April 2020, Steffen Haag
Issue #8
Trouble with ‘Progress’: Serbia, Development and its Narrative Ruptures
September 2020, Jelena Vićentić
Issue #9
Layers of Post-Development: De- and reconstructions in a world in which many worlds exist
February 2021, Julia Schöneberg
Issue #4
Partnership and cooperation in Haiti: Clashes of reality and construction
March 2016, Julia Schöneberg
Issue #5
In Search for a Decolonizing Actor: Contradictions Between Brazilian State Policies and Social Emancipation of Quilombolas
July 2018, Tereza Ventura
Issue #6
The legitimation of expulsion in development discourse. A comparative analysis of World Bank projects in sub-Saharan Africa
April 2019, Aram Ziai
Issue #1
The contribution of discourse analysis to development studies
March 2015, Aram Ziai
Issue #2
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
Issue #3
Re-Reading Amartya Sen from the Andes: Exploring the Ethical contributions of Indigenous Philosophies
December 2015, Ana Estefanía Carballo