Teatime - Book Presentation: Global Partnerships and Neocolonialism

Presenters: Prof. Sally Matthews, Dr. Joshua Bell, Jule Lümmen, Prof. Devan Pillay, Prof. Praveen Jha.

A “global partnership for sustainable development” is the 17th Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs). However, research points to shortcomings and problematic aspects of international partnerships shaped by colonialism and that continue to reflect unequal power relations between the global North and South. Hence, the chapters of this edited volume explore how global partnerships can be established in a neocolonial environment across development cooperation, the global economy, and knowledge production. 

The contributions were written by members of the Global Partnership Network (GPN), one of the Centres of Excellence for Exchange and Development funded by the German Ministry for Development Cooperation, which has been working intensively and critically on the topic of partnerships and North-South relations over the past four years.

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You can read the open-access book here.