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This book would not have been possible without the help and support of the wonderful people around me. My utmost gratitude goes to Uma Kothari and Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, the exceptional supervisors of my PhD thesis at the University of Manchester. Chapters 5 and 6 draw on my PhD research and are derived, in part, from articles...

‘German-Tanzanian Cooperation in Health can be followed back to the 19th century’ (Tanzanian German Programme to Support Health 2008). When I began my research on colonial power in German development policy in 2008, I was surprised to find this allusion to the colonial period on the website of the Tanzanian German Programme to Support Health (TGPSH), the most significant German...

This chapter provides the framework for the following empirical analyses. It proceeds in two steps. In the first four sections – ‘German Colonialism’, ‘(Dis-)Remembering Colonialism’, ‘The Emergence of German Development Policy during Colonialism’, ‘Post-WWII German Development Policy’ – the historical and contemporary context of German...

Development education (DE) in Germany aims at encouraging learners to participate in the shaping of a more just and sustainable world marked by solidarity (KMK and BMZ 2007). It takes place both in schools and in non-formal educational contexts. The actors include governmental agencies, kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, universities, adult education centres, vocational...

While development education (DE) is explicit in its educational thrust, and young students or adults will be aware of engaging in an openly educational exchange, billboard advertising of development organisations – just as any other advertisement – targets the unconscious to a much greater extent. It seems to be one of the central realms of indirectly educating the general public about...

Focusing on the realms of development education and billboard advertising, chapters 3 and 4 examined how the public in Germany is socialised into ideas and practices of development, and how colonial power takes effect or is dealt with in these areas. This chapter and chapter 6 now turn to German ‘development abroad’. German development policy is particularly appropriate for an analysis...

To further examine colonial power in Germany’s development abroad in yet more depth, this final empirical chapter turns to the field of population policy and again traces contemporary endeavours back to the colonial past. As mentioned in chapter 5, the German colonial administration had been concerned about ‘population decline’ in ‘German East Africa’. In contrast,...

In this final chapter, I first bring together the empirical insights gained from the investigation of four policy areas in order to highlight the book’s contribution to the general debate on colonialism and development. I then reflect on the instructiveness of the German case and discuss the relevance of my research for settings beyond Germany. In a further step, I draw on my study to deduce...

Daniel Bendix is a Professor for Global Development at Friedensau Adventist University, Germany. During the writing of this book, he was a junior fellow in the research group ‘Landnahme, Acceleration, Activation. Dynamic(s) and (De-)Stabilisation of Modern Growth Societies’ at the University of Jena, Germany. He is on the editorial board of the journal PERIPHERIE...

This is the first series to mark out a dedicated space for advanced critical inquiry into colonial questions across International Relations. The ethos of this book series is reflected by the bricolage constituency of Kilombos – settlements of African slaves, rebels and indigenous peoples in South America who became self-determining political communities that retrieved and renovated the...