ABSTRACT
Development has meant many things throughout history, depending on who defined it, where it was applied and whom it was intended to affect. In this chapter, I offer one possible reading by exploring what it means to look at development through a decolonial feminist lens. This reading shows that the development framework operates as a gendered and racialised relationship of power between the Global North and the Global South. I argue that the development imaginary evolved as a myth based on a set of dominant discourses, representations and practices, aided greatly by the construction of the category of the ‘Global South woman’. This chapter concludes by pointing towards the possibilities that feminist decolonialism can bring for development thinking and how we can do better as a discipline.
