Decolonising Development News Today

The great cultural theorist Stuart Hall called Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth “the bible of decolonisation” as it encapsulated the urge for

There is growing awareness of and resistance to the role of EU border agency Frontex in human rights abuses, with a recent campaign at a university in Turin and a referendum in Switzerland seeking to halt different forms of cooperation with the agency.

Power relations that were shaped by colonial powers still mark international cooperation. This has been criticised again and again, but only to little effect. For matters to improve, institutions must not only reckon with the past, but mainstream such reckoning in their operations.

Published on 7 May 2021 Marketing and Communications Every institution, be it the British Royal Family, the United Nations or a University are a product of the historical, cultural, and social spaces they inhabit. The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is no exception. Our pedagogy, the research we conduct and the stories that we tell are all affected by our collective history, including of colonialism. Over the past years, IDS has taken the critical len...