Ripe for reckoning? White saviourism in international development
Description
What are the enduring legacies of colonialism and how do they contribute to the persistence of white saviourism in international development today?
This ODI Public Dialogue will bring a high-profile in-person conversation to our London office with co-editor Themrise Khan to mark the release of a new book: White Saviorism in International Development: Theories, Practices and Lived Experiences. Join us to unpack the intimate and ongoing relationship between international development and coloniality, and ideas of whiteness and race as raised in the book.
As a project and set of ideas, with its own norms and practices, international development remains under intense scrutiny. Global geo-political realignments, coupled with a reckoning around race and racism since the murder of George Floyd in 2020, have brought to the fore a renewed need to grapple with the persistence of inequality and white saviourism in the sector. What would it take to finally do away with it altogether?
Joined by some of the UK's most thoughtful voices on decolonisation and racial justice, ODI will bring to light different perspectives on how white saviourism manifests and what alternatives could structure the international development space instead.
This event will also facilitate a closed-door space for in-person audience members to engage in dialogue with invited speakers, aiming to tease out whether and how it might be possible to re-imagine international cooperation based on alternative ideas, practices and principles.
Speakers
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Robtel Neajai Pailey
@RobtelNeajaiAssistant Professor, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics & Political Science, UK
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