De‐centring the ‘White Gaze’ of Development

Pailey, Robtel Neajai

doi:10.1111/dech.12550

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“…The analysis of aggregated data hides interesting patterns within specific disciplines. The field of development studies presents a special case in this discussion, with researchers raising the question of how complicit they are in upholding and reproducing racial hierarchies that underpin development studies (Pailey, 2020). Publications in highly ranked development studies journals use data which are collected 'in the field', which very often means in rural areas of low-income countries.…”

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Where Can the Crow Make Friends? Sci‐Hub's Activities in the Library of Development Studies and its Implications for the Field

Sagemüller

Meißner²,

Mußhoff³

2021

Development and Change

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This study examines data on the worldwide use of the shadow library website Sci-Hub. It focuses particularly on the discipline of development studies, taking a critical look at current practices in scientific publishing and their implications for scientific conduct in this field. In the context of discussions about open science, the data demonstrate that Sci-Hub represents an existing network of open access literature. The study first describes the extent and geographic distribution of download requests from Sci-Hub and then identifies the underlying socio-economic drivers (i.e. GDP and population). The authors find that Sci-Hub is used the most by researchers from the global South, primarily from middle-income countries, whereas researchers from the poorest countries in the data set use Sci-Hub the least. This approach allows some conclusions to be drawn about factors that have an effect on a functioning open access network.1. This is a reference to Sci-Hub, which uses as its logo a picture of a crow holding a key. For a copy of the image, see: www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/08/08/letterpublishers-group-adds-debate-over-sci-hub-and-librarians-who-study-it (accessed 18 December 2020).

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Where Can the Crow Make Friends? Sci‐Hub's Activities in the Library of Development Studies and its Implications for the Field

Sagemüller

Meißner²,

Mußhoff³

2021

Development and Change

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“…In applying Ray's conceptual framework here, the elements of racial structures are evident. The racial schema at play is the implicit irrationality of the Southern governance and regulatory systems, and the celebration of a formal White ideal (Pailey, 2019). The resource being controlled, in this case deprived, is pledged finance that would be a lifeblood in Pacific communities facing an escalating ecological crisis.…”

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Racial formation, coloniality, and climate finance organizations: Implications for emergent data projects in the Pacific

Anantharajah

2021

Big Data & Society

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This commentary explores the potential consequence of latent racial formation in emergent climate finance data projects and draws from ethnographic research on climate finance governance conducted in Fiji. Climate finance data projects emerging in the Pacific aim to ease the flow of finance from the Global North to the South. These emergent data projects, such as renewable energy resource availability and investment mapping, are imbedded in the climate finance organizations that fund, develop, and use them. Thus, the commentary explores climate finance organizations through the lens of Ray’s (2019) theory of racial organizations, highlighting the ways in which important climate-related resources are mediated through racial and colonial schemas. The racial mediation of two key resources are spotlighted in this discussion: the finance itself and knowledge. Given that the Pacific region is at the coalface of climate change’s existential effects, the just allocation of resources is imperative. In interrogating the ways in which emergent data projects may deny these resources based on hidden racial schemas, the paper cautions against new and old forms of colonization that may be mobilized through even well-meaning techno-benevolent fixes ( Benjamin, 2019 ).

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“…Forms of structural violence and political violence were not specified. Neither decoloniality, nor decolonial options, nor assassination, nor race appeared at all (for an analysis of the latter, see Kothari, 2006; Pailey, 2019). Capacity building, sustainability, gender, resource availability, the environment and globalisation were the dominant framing devises.…”

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Between appropriation and assassination

Murrey

2019

IJSE

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Purpose Oriented to ongoing student and university momentums for decolonial futures, the purpose of this paper is to interrogate the role and status of mainstream international development curricula and pedagogies by critiquing two absences in the sub-discipline’s teaching formulae: appropriations and assassinations. Design/methodology/approach The author draws from a decade of research on oil extraction in Central Africa, including ethnographic work with two communities in Cameroon along the Chad–Cameroon Oil Pipeline; four years of research (interview-based and unofficial or grey materials) on the 1983 August Revolution in Burkina Faso and assassination of Thomas Sankara; and five years of experience teaching international development in North America, Western Europe and North and Eastern Africa. Findings Through a critical synthesis of political and rhetorical practices that are often considered in isolation (i.e. political assassinations and corporate appropriation of Indigenous knowledges), the author makes the case for what the author calls pedagogical disobedience: an anticipatory decolonial development curricula and praxis that is attentive to the simultaneity of violence and misappropriation within colonial operations of power (i.e. “coloniality of power” or “coloniality”). Originality/value This paper contributes to debates within international development about the future of the discipline given its neo-colonial and colonial constitutions and functions with a grounded attention to how this opens up possibilities for teaching praxis and scholarship in action.

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De‐centring the ‘White Gaze’ of Development

Cited by 150 publications

References 30 publications

Where Can the Crow Make Friends? Sci‐Hub's Activities in the Library of Development Studies and its Implications for the Field

Where Can the Crow Make Friends? Sci‐Hub's Activities in the Library of Development Studies and its Implications for the Field

Racial formation, coloniality, and climate finance organizations: Implications for emergent data projects in the Pacific

Between appropriation and assassination

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