By Luqman Ọpẹ́yẹmí Muraina and Aysha Valery
The Development Studies Association (DSA) conference held annually and the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) conference held every three-years bring together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to discuss some of the world’s most pressing challenges – inequality, sustainability, environment, migration, etc.
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By Portia Roelofs / First post in a mini-series on large grant-funded research centres
In 1990 the Beninese political scientist Paulin Hountondji called attention to the role of concept generation and dissemination in ‘the North’s Monopoly on theory’. In recent years European Development Studies and adjacent discipline of African Studies has turned the spotlight on how this hierarchy is reproduced in conferences, journals, hiring and textbooks. With 70-85% of African research produced through international collaborations, and mainly funded by European countries, European research funding regimes are a key node in this landscape.
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By Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
At a moment when the United States has recently kidnapped the Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, assassinated the Iranian supreme leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei, is plotting regime change in Cuba, and is continuing to support genocide and colonial oppression in Palestine, the question of how to understand empire, capitalism, and possibilities for resistance is as pressing as ever. In a new article, I argue that any radical decolonization agenda must be aligned with critique of and resistance to contemporary oppression. I also posit that the most dominant form of decolonial theory – the one that is now pervasive across global North universities as well as many institutions across the global South – does not lend itself to such radical critique and resistance.
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