GPN Tea Time

During the first Tea Time of 2025, the Global Partnership Network will launch the open access book "Global Partnerships and Neocolonialism", a text summarizing academic reflections from the first phase of the GPN network (2022-2024).

The editors and some authors of the book will share some of their impressions with the audience.

Date: 05.05.2025

Time: 14:00 (CEST)

Place: Hybrid meeting - The presentation will be held in English and translated into French

1. via Zoom - French translation available via Zoom (registration elearning.gpn(at)uni-kassel.de)

2. university of Kassel - Kleine Rosenstraße 1-3 - Big Seminar Room

Description of the book:
A "global partnership for sustainable development" is the 17th goal of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, research points to shortcomings and problematic aspects of international partnerships that have been shaped by colonialism and continue to reflect unequal power relations between the global North and South. The chapters in this anthology therefore explore how global partnerships can be built in a neo-colonial environment in the areas of development cooperation, the global economy and knowledge production. The contributions were written by members of the Global Partnership Network (GPN), one of the competence centers for exchange and development funded by the German Federal Ministry for Development Cooperation, which has been working intensively and critically on the topic of partnerships and North-South relations for four years.

Speakers:
Sally Matthews and Joshua Bell - Rhodes University
Jule Lümmen - University of Kassel
Devan Pillay - University of Witwatersrand
Praveen Jha - Jawaharlal Nehru University
Aram Ziai - University of Kassel