In Elke's latest essay she problematizes the (Education for) Sustainable Development discourse which is widely adopted in an uncritical manner, despite its roots in imperialism and growth-centred economics. She traces back the dark foundations of the (sustainable) development discourse by going back to 1961, when John F Kennedy declared the 1960s the ‘decade of development’. … Continue reading The Dance Macabre between Belgium’s colonial past and the sustainable development discourse →