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Dead Aid: The Cases of International Development Agencies in Uganda, Kenya, and Nepal [Living reference work]
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Dead Aid: The Cases of International Development Agencies in Uganda, Kenya, and Nepal [Living reference work]

Raj Yadav, Sharlotte Tusasiirwe and Kathomi Gatwiri
Handbook of Critical Whiteness: Deconstructing Dominant Discourses Across Disciplines
Springer Singapore, Living edition
2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1612-0_43-1

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Abstract

critical whiteness theory decolonisation Eurocentrism ethnocentrism indigenous knowledges Deconstructing Whiteness in Humanitarian Development Labour, migration and development Political geography Women's and maternal health Gender and sexualities
Since their advent until now, the international development agencies and their discourses have earned appreciation and scorn around their engagements in Nepali, Kenyan, and Ugandan development context. On the one hand, their centrality in mainstream development has received praise, while, on the other, their promotion of Western, hegemonic, and colonial development paradigms has been widely criticized within the contexts from which this chapter is written. Following the White savior mentality, the charity-narrative has masked the ongoing neocolonialism that communities continue to experience. Hence, drawing on a post-, alternative-decolonized development perspective, this chapter will explore how the idea of development led by the international development agencies itself is dead. The chapter will examine the persistence of West-to-the rest thinking that has perpetuated the continued imposition of Western models and agendas, ignoring indigenous models of responding and preventing social problems. While doing so, it will also suggest how the idea of development can be revived alternatively that withers away from the international development agencies.

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