Decolonising development studies? NMBU Global Development Studies Lecture 2024
The field of Development Studies is increasingly finding itself the subject of anti-colonial and decolonial criticism. Andrea Nightingale asks what decolonised Development Studies looks like.
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Clock Building (U328), NMBU, Ole Sverres plass 1, 1433 Ås
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Anti-colonial conversations from around the world are not all focused on the same issues, even if there are some common themes such as knowledge-production, methodology and research ethics.
In this public talk, sociologist and human geographer Andrea Nightingale will outline some of the debates within anti-colonial thinking and their implications for Development Studies.
Drawing on empirical work on hydropower in the Himalayas, she will discuss how a feminist, anti-colonial framing of the issue raises interesting new questions for understanding research and practice within development.
Open lecture, no registration required. Map of venue.
Andrea Nightingale
Andrea Joslyn Nightingale is a professor of sociology and human geography. She has worked in Nepal for over thirty years within natural resource management, gender, caste and related environmental justice issues, and state transformation. Nightingale also worked in Scotland on in-shore fisheries management. Her most recent work is focused on climate change adaptation and political change.