
Alf Hornborg
Professor emeritus

Progress as neocolonialism : Why decoloniality must imply a farewell to development
Författare
Redaktör
- Michael McEachrane
- Louis Faye
Summary, in English
This chapter challenges the view that rising living standards and other indexes of progress in Sweden merely are rewards of technological development, successful industries, and a hard-working population, disconnected from the facts of European colonial history and the severely unequal conditions of contemporary world society. The European context of Swedish industrialisation and the large ecological footprints of its citizens raise questions about global justice. The fact that Swedish living standards would be physically impossible to universalise jars with the narrative of just rewards. Such cognitive dissonance is magnified by the empirical evidence of a systematic net transfer of embodied labour and other resources to the Global North from low-wage countries in the Global South. In this sense, modern world trade incontrovertibly represents a continuation of colonialism beyond its official termination. The evolutionist narrative of technological progress is in itself a colonial ideology that a decolonial view must reject.
Avdelning/ar
- Humanekologi
Publiceringsår
2024-12-16
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
235-249
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Decolonial Sweden
Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
Routledge
Ämne
- Other Social Sciences
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 9781003396611