Supervisors:
Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley, University of Southampton c.l.riley@soton.ac.uk
Dr Stacey Hynd, University of Exeter s.hynd@exeter.ac.uk
Dr Kerrie Holloway, The Overseas Development Institute k.holloway@odi.org.uk
This project contributes to the decolonising of knowledge around overseas aid and development. The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) seeks to explore and understand its own history, having been established as an international development-focused think tank in 1960 during the decolonisation of the British Empire. Sixty years on, the international development sector is ever increasing in size, with its actions highly contested: lauded by some as a crucial source of redistributive justice, but criticised by others as a damaging form of neo-colonialism that perpetuates the very structures of global inequality that it protests. This project will not be an institutional history of ODI, but a critical reappraisal of the foundation, functioning and impact of the institution, using this case study to explore shifting ideas and practices of development, and the racialized structures of power that underpin it.
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