{"id":5187,"date":"2015-02-25T18:14:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T18:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/new-publication-a-history-with-cosmopolitan-intent-postcolonial-perspectives-on-weltwaerts\/"},"modified":"2015-02-25T18:14:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T18:14:49","slug":"new-publication-a-history-with-cosmopolitan-intent-postcolonial-perspectives-on-weltwaerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/new-publication-a-history-with-cosmopolitan-intent-postcolonial-perspectives-on-weltwaerts\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication: A history with cosmopolitan intent? Postcolonial Perspectives on &#8220;weltw\u00e4rts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weltw\u00e4rts voluntary service is intended to make it possible to experience a &#8220;personal<br \/>\ncontribution to a just world&#8221;. But what ideas go hand in hand with<br \/>\nThis service, which takes place in a context of unequal power relations, is accompanied by the<br \/>\npolitical context moves? With the help of postcolonial and feminist theories<br \/>\nKristina Kontzi examines the representations and program structures. She asks<br \/>\ntheir colonial heritage and benefits for the participants. In the focus of discourse analysis<br \/>\nThe critical examination of concepts of development is connected with the<br \/>\nwith those of a cosmopolitanism, which as a pedagogical answer to globalization issues<br \/>\napplies.<br \/>\nThe dissertation shows the entanglement of colonial history and the present of developmental engagement. It illustrates the need to develop a<br \/>\nto take a power-critical perspective on programs of this kind, in order to<br \/>\nNot to reproduce power relations, but to be able to change them.<\/p>\n<p>The book is published by Nomos and available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomos-shop.de\/Kontzi-Postkoloniale-Perspektiven-weltw%C3%A4rts\/productview.aspx?product=24015&amp;pac=weco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. For event inquiries, please <a href=\"mailto:kontzi@glokal.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email the author<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weltw\u00e4rts voluntary service is intended to make it possible to experience a &#8220;personal contribution to a just world&#8221;. But what ideas go hand in hand with This service, which takes place in a context of unequal power relations, is accompanied by the political context moves? With the help of postcolonial and feminist theories Kristina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"glokal","author_link":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/author\/carolin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The weltw\u00e4rts voluntary service is intended to make it possible to experience a &#8220;personal contribution to a just world&#8221;. But what ideas go hand in hand with This service, which takes place in a context of unequal power relations, is accompanied by the political context moves? With the help of postcolonial and feminist theories Kristina&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}