On December 1, Gisela Carrasco-Mir贸 (Gender Studies) will give the Doing Gender Lecture Decolonising Development: Putting Life at the Centre.
This lecture starts from the observation that development is more than economic exchange and involves important social, political and cultural aspects. It interrogates the way development ideas and practices are embedded in cultural contexts, and specifically how the development industry is culturally and historically entangled in Western and modernist conceptions of gender, progress, nature and rationality.
Cultural relativism
This inevitably raises issues of power, knowledge and cultural relativism. But the question remains: how to live together in a way that living is worthy and just for all? At the origin of the current civilisatory crisis lies the break of Western culture and modernity with the materiality of the bodies and Earth. Deconstructing the myths, fables and beliefs that support an ecocidal, patriarchal, colonial and unjust development culture is a preliminary step to reorienting the subjectivities and practices that make life, finite and vulnerable, a priority.
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- Online via Teams
- Entrance fee
- Free entrance
- Registration
To register send an email to nog@uu.nl. You will receive a link for this online event.
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