ABSTRACT
Highlighting the urgent multi-disciplinary challenges facing development studies, Yvonne Underhill-Sem sets out ways to confront long-standing issues too easily put aside, overlooked, or ignored in the development canon. Calling out injustices and profound trauma associated with racism, sexism, and intolerance as a result of imperialism and colonization, Underhill-Sem expresses a commitment to decolonial and Indigenous scholarship, which articulates alternative ways of knowing by asking; if we are not actively practising decoloniality, are we continuing to colonize? Reflecting on personal experience, Underhill-Sem advocates the importance of positioning one’s epistemic genealogy, dismantling Western canons of knowledge production; and generate transnational solidarities for decolonial gender and development. The chapter explores these commitments thus providing practical guidance for teachers, researchers, and students to do development differently.
