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"The author discusses knowledge that is relevant to decision-making ('Decision-useful'), but which, for a variety of reasons, is still unknown, from the applied perspective of development cooperation. The recognition and elimination of blindspots, in the last decades, regularly triggered a series of paradigms shifts concerning development goals and measures. It is pointed out that in development cooperation, decisions often involve a high level of risk or uncertainty, and there are manifold reasons for this. Modern practices and tools, such as participatory and inclusive work minimize several blindspots. A key element of the German development agency's (GIZ) approach to learning and knowledge management is to produce a cultural change towards greater openness and flexibility. The unexpected and surprising must not be seen as a disaster or disturbance." (author's abstract)

"The author discusses knowledge that is relevant to decision-making ('Decision-useful'), but which, for a variety of reasons, is still unknown, from the applied perspective of development cooperation. The recognition and elimination of blindspots, in the last decades, regularly triggered a series of paradigms shifts concerning development goals and measures. It is pointed out that in development cooperation, decisions often involve a high level of risk or uncertainty, and there are manifold reasons for this. Modern practices and tools, such as participatory and inclusive work minimize several blindspots. A key element of the German development agency's (GIZ) approach to learning and knowledge management is to produce a cultural change towards greater openness and flexibility. The unexpected and surprising must not be seen as a disaster or disturbance." (author's abstract).

Die von der deutschsprachigen Entwicklungstheorie kaum beachtete Post-Development-Kritik formuliert eine fundamentale Kritik an Projekt, Konstrukt und Begriff der "Entwicklung". In der Rezeption herrscht weitgehende Einigkeit über die theoretische Einordnung der Texte als an Foucault angelehnte Diskursanalysen sowie über bestimmte "Standardvorwürfe". Eine nähere Betrachtung offenbart jedoch erstens, dass Post-Development mehr Gemeinsamkeiten mit einer traditionellen Ideologiekritik als mit einer poststrukturalistischen Diskursanalyse aufweist, und zweitens, dass man strenggenommen zwei Varianten des Post-Development unterscheiden muss: eine neopopulistische mit potenziell reaktionären politischen Konsequenzen und eine skeptische, die sich "postmoderner" Theorieelemente bedient, eine große Schnittmenge mit postmarxistisch und radikaldemokratischen Ansätzen aufweist und ein emanzipatives Projekt formuliert. (Politische Vierteljahresschrift / FUB)