- Convenors:
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Reetika Subramanian
(University of East Anglia)
Sharmila Parmanand (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Mirna Guha (Anglia Ruskin University)
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- Chairs:
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Sharmila Parmanand
(London School of Economics and Political Science)
Sarah Redicker (University of Exeter)
Reetika Subramanian (University of East Anglia)
- Format:
- Paper panel
- Stream:
- Decolonising knowledge, power & practice
Short Abstract
This interdisciplinary panel series brings feminist and decolonial perspectives together to challenge dominant development paradigms, centring epistemic justice, feminist solidarities, and alternative knowledge systems to rethink power, agency, and transformative practice.
Description
The DSA’s Gender and Development Study Group proposes a series of three interlinked and interdisciplinary panels that bring together feminist and decolonial perspectives to interrogate and reimagine the concept and practice of development. Rather than accepting development as a universal, technocratic, or apolitical project, the panels foreground epistemic justice, feminist solidarities, and alternative knowledge systems as starting points for rethinking power, agency, and collaboration in uncertain times.
The discussions will explore key questions around:
- Epistemic justice and pluriversality: How can feminist and decolonial approaches reframe or move beyond the very idea of “development”? What new vocabularies and imaginaries can replace the exhausted language of growth, empowerment, and progress?
- Feminist entanglements with governance: How are feminist agendas articulated, negotiated, and constrained within states, multilateral organisations, and private sector spaces?
- Temporalities: How might feminist and decolonial approaches disrupt linear or teleological temporalities of development?
- Infrastructures and reworlding: How can feminist ethics of care, repair, and sustainability help reimagine technopolitics, digital activism, climate justice, and care economies?
- Collaboration and praxis: How can feminist methodologies reshape knowledge production and development practice?
- Politics of refusal and everyday transformations: How do feminist actors strategically refuse, subvert, or reconfigure development logics in everyday sites?
Each panel will bring together academic and practitioner contributions to foster critical dialogue between theory and practice, and to collectively envision more plural, just, and sustainable feminist and decolonial futures of development.
This Panel has 6 pending
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