Resilience Governance: A New Form of Colonialism in the Global South
The reason why projects fail may well be that resilience “experts” necessarily start from problematising local capacities and capabilities rather than building upon them.
Decolonising Resilience: Rethinking ‘Local Knowledge’, Opacity and Coloniality
Placing opacity at the centre may enable the problematisation of external projects of intervention, no matter how ‘enabling’ they set out to be.
Opinion – The Israel/Hamas War and ‘Decolonial Washing’
Coloniality is so baked into Western state powers and institutions that attempts to take ‘short cuts’ through making ‘decolonial’ claims and statements can easily feed into existing hierarchies.
The First War of the Anthropocene: Ukraine and the Struggle to ‘Un-Cancel the Future’
The Ukraine war is one of disavowal through which it is hoped the ‘idea’ of modernity, the idea of ‘Europe’, and the idea of ‘values’ can conceal their shabbier reality.