COST 19129 Decolonizing development

Project funding scheme: COST Association

Team coordinator of the Institute of Economic Sciences: Milica Kočović De Santo, PhD

Duration of the project: 2020-2024

Description:

Decolonising Development (DecolDEV) is a four-year COST Action (09/09/2020 – 08/09/2024) that takes on the challenge to reconstruct development after its deconstruction in a non-Eurocentric manner which is aware of epistemically unjust relations of power. The Action works towards a resetting and diversification of the structures, institutions and spaces in which knowledge about and for development is produced, shared, contested and put into practice. Decolonization of knowledge about ‘development’ cannot mean maintaining a paternalist binary of those already developed and those less developed but must scrutinize the structures and institutions that maintain power imbalances and the ideas that support paternalistic relations and assumptions of superiority according to intersectional (read: gendered, racialized, classed, etc.) objectification of the Other.