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Development studies
In: International social science journal: ISSJ, Volume 24, Issue 1, p. 7-165
ISSN: 0020-8701
Contents are grouped under the headings: Editorial; Disciplinary contributions, Continuing debate.
Development Studies
In: Political studies review, Volume 9, Issue 2, p. 273
ISSN: 1478-9299
Development studies
In: Polity short introductions series
Decolonising Development Studies
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Volume 49, Issue 3, p. 346-355
ISSN: 1469-9044
AbstractThis article explores ways of decolonising Development Studies by: (1) examining the discipline's tendencies towards what some have called 'imperial amnesia', that is, proclivities towards disavowing if not erasing European colonialism, most evident in 1950s–1960s Modernisation theory, but also more recently in the work of such analysts as Bruce Gilley and Nigel Biggar; (2) considering the opportunities and perils of 'epistemic decolonisation', that is, ways of decolonising knowledge production in the discipline, including the limits of 'non-Eurocentric' pedagogies; and (3) reflecting on forms of material decolonisation (e.g., the reduction of socioeconomic inequalities by improving better access to education or resisting the corporatisation of publicly funded research) that need to accompany any epistemic decolonisation for the latter to be meaningful.
Development Studies Association
In: Journal of development economics, Volume 32, Issue 2, p. 445
ISSN: 0304-3878