10 Feb 2025
Localisation is not Decolonisation. Here is what we need to be cautious of
Recently, the concept of localisation has been used to refer to a wide range of issues, most notably decolonisation. Within the development and humanitarian sector, this has become a buzzword, as Themrise Khan writes, serving as a way to shift narratives. Moosavi (2020) refers to this as the "decolonial bandwagon of intellectual decolonisation," characterised by Northern-centrism. This arises from the tendency of scholarship to ignore decolonial scholars from the Global South, thereby enacting intellectual colonisation instead of dismantling it...