Contested development(s)? The possible contribution of the African Independent Churches in decolonising development

Expanding Imaginations for a Post-2030 Agenda: The Interaction between Christian and Indigenous Spiritualities in the Philippines

“…One of the most commonly known is buen vivir, an internally and historically heterogeneous concept (Gudynas 2011),4 which gained popularity and its present, generally accepted, meaning of intertwined community and environmental and social well-being in Latin America in the 1990s (Gudynas 2014). Another is ubuntu, which originated in Southern Africa and is often explained through the phrase 'I am because we are' in which all beings are interdependent and interconnected (Ramose 2015;Bowers Du Toit 2020;van Norren 2020;Sartorius 2022). A further example that is gaining attention in Europe is that of degrowth, which Kothari et al describe as 'the hypothesis that we can live better with less and in common, in western countries' (2019,2).…”