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Contribution short abstract

In this paper, I argue that indigenous knowledges produce a subversive critique and diachronic agency to normative modern development discourse and practice

Contribution long abstract

One of the fundamental challenges facing modern/colonial discourse and practice of development today is the challenge of imagining another way of thinking and doing development that does not reproduce many the challenges that are compromising the life-chances of future generations. Thus, the challenge of failing to develop and/or recognize options and alternatives to the modern/colonial development discourse and praxis has led to the development of cosmetic solutions such as those found in the idea of sustainable development—an idea that has so far proven to be entrapped within the same modern/colonial discourse of development that it seeks to challenge. In this paper, I argue that a subversive critique to modern/colonial development discourse and practice cannot be found in the very epistemology in which the current modern/colonial thinking about development is steeped but in knowledges of the indigenous peoples of the global South have been displaced, peripherised and delegitimised.