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Recent Blogposts

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Thinking Beyond the Colonial Ecosystem

Touseef Mir - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The concept of development has been significant in shaping the current texture of the world and society around us. Not only was development an important tool of the European colonial enterprise, but the notion of development also resonates with similar power hierarchies. However, there is increasing realisation, especially within academia, about not only the colonial beginnings of development but its continued and significant (neo)colonial hues, be it in theory, policy or praxis of development.
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The Role of Critical Poetic Inquiry in Decolonising ‘Development’

Nita Mishra - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
For Development Studies (DS) to truly decolonise itself, it must include the voices that do not find their way to its dominant narrative. To locate these hidden voices, and amplify them, DS scholars must embrace newer ways of doing research. Newer ways of doing research means adopting newer tools or methods of doing research with the aim to identify sources of forgotten or hitherto ignored knowledge. Whose voice is heard and whose knowledge counts, in essence, is therefore a call to facilitate a more inclusive process of knowledge creation. For instance, while discussions on intellectual decolonization underly all four schools of DS, it still begets the question ‘what research methods are best suited to advance the ‘de-colonial’ imagination of ‘Development’ especially when knowledge-production is still influenced by privileges of race?
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Learning and Unlearning: Sowing the Seeds of a Decolonising Mindset

Peter Taylor - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
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