The Power Shift: Decolonising Development
Prof Kate Bird and Charmaine McCaulay
The debate around decolonising development can be confusing and divisive. Some see proponents as 'woke' or engaging in 'the culture wars'. This podcast series skewers this divisive narrative by convening a series of conversations with a people holding a wide range of view-points about development and the need to decolonise the way we think about and do development. Prof Kate Bird (Director of The Development Hub) and Charmaine McCaulay (Director of Kokoro Therapy and lead facilitator of 'Racism in Real Time') talk with activists, thinkers and practitioners working to decolonise international development. They talk about whose knowledge counts, who sets the development agenda, the white gaze and white fragility, how organisations and individuals work internationally, the need to address power and privilege and how colonialism isn't just in the past, because it has been internalised in each of us and informs the design and behaviour of current organisations, institutions and norms. The