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Alf Hornborg

Alf Hornborg

Professor emeritus

Alf Hornborg

Progress as neocolonialism : Why decoloniality must imply a farewell to development

Författare

  • Alf Hornborg

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