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Decolonizing Development Studies: Rejecting or Repurposing the Master's Tools?
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Focusing on the project of decolonizing Development Studies, this thought piece reflects on tensions between Decolonial Studies and the critical political-economy of Development, known as Critical Development Studies. It highlights the divergent approaches to addressing epistemic inequalities between these two streams of Development thinking, demonstrating that Critical Development Studies has a longer history of valorising development knowledge from the Global South, and a focus on the need to address structural as well as epistemic inequalities. The analysis challenges the palliative cultural focus of Decolonial Studies and exposes its vulnerability to neoliberal capture at the epistemic and the political levels in ways that risk perpetuating colonial subordination. With examples from the African context, this thought piece argues that Critical Development Studies advances a more transformative approach to decolonizing Development Studies through its emphasis on the role of epistemic recognition as part of the wider objective of material redistribution. Se concentrant sur le projet de d & eacute;colonisation des & eacute;tudes de d & eacute;veloppement, ce texte de r & eacute;flexion met en lumi & egrave;re les tensions entre les & eacute;tudes d & eacute;coloniales et l'& eacute;conomie politique critique du d & eacute;veloppement, connue sous le nom d'& eacute;tudes de d & eacute;veloppement critiques. Il souligne les approches divergentes pour aborder les in & eacute;galit & eacute;s & eacute;pist & eacute;miques entre ces deux courants de pens & eacute;e du d & eacute;veloppement, d & eacute;montrant que les & eacute;tudes de d & eacute;veloppement critiques ont une histoire plus longue de valorisation des connaissances sur le d & eacute;veloppement provenant du Sud global, et un accent sur la n & eacute;cessit & eacute; de traiter les in & eacute;galit & eacute;s structurelles ainsi que les in & eacute;galit & eacute;s & eacute;pist & eacute;miques. L'analyse remet en question l'accent culturel palliatif des & eacute;tudes d & eacute;coloniales, et expose sa vuln & eacute;rabilit & eacute; & agrave; la capture n & eacute;olib & eacute;rale aux niveaux & eacute;pist & eacute;mique et politique de mani & egrave;re qui risque de perp & eacute;tuer la subordination coloniale. Avec des exemples du contexte africain, ce texte de r & eacute;flexion soutient que les & eacute;tudes de d & eacute;veloppement critiques proposent une approche plus transformatrice pour d & eacute;coloniser les & eacute;tudes de d & eacute;veloppement gr & acirc;ce & agrave; son accent sur le r & ocirc;le de la reconnaissance & eacute;pist & eacute;mique dans le cadre de l'objectif plus large de redistribution mat & eacute;rielle.
Keywords:
Development Studies
Decoloniality
Decolonisation
Epistemic inequality
Structural transformation
Redistribution
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