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- Convenors:
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Rosie Westerveld
(Université Bordeaux Montaigne)
Elisabeth Hofmann (Université Bordeaux Montaigne)
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- Format:
- Panel
- Disciplinary streams:
- Politics and International Relations
Short Abstract
This panels invites to reflect on how decoloniality is challenging and changing North-South / South-North partnerships in the field of development and research projects and programmes, linked to gender and intersectionality, where the relevance of decoloniality is particularly highlighted.
Long Abstract
Recent publications on gender and development from a decolonial prism (like Melber, et al, 2024 ; Fayemi, 2025) highlight complexities of the multiple questioning which the concept of decoloniality brought into development corporation, research collaborations, development / ‘international solidarity’ NGO projects (the latter term being widely used in French initiatives with the global South).
This panels invites to reflect on how decoloniality is challenging and changing North-South / South-North partnerships in the field of development and research projects and programmes. As Auriacombe (2019) points out, historical colonial value systems and practices are still dominant in current knowledge generation, transfer and application processes and their outcomes in Africa. ‘Decolonising’ research and evaluation processes and products is therefore necessary to make them “more relevant, appropriate and, therefore, more effective to achieve sustainable empowerment and other desired developmental outcomes”.
What are the implications of this strive for decolonial partnerships in international cooperation with Africa, especially concerning development and research projects and programmes? The panel proposes to look at this question around initiatives linked to gender and intersectionnality, where the relevance of decoloniality is particularly highlighted (amongst others, by Gunda, 2023; Reiss, et al (Eds.), 2026; Solomons, 2025).
Perspectives from francophone backgrounds – where relevant literature is a lot scarcer – are particularly encouraged, but contributions from other parts of Africa or linked to African diaporas are also welcome.
The panel can accommodate for contribution in French and English (without simultaneous translation, though).