Research
Racism, power and truth. Experiences of people of colour in development (BOND, 2021)
Organisations need to understand how racism manifests in their cultures, policies and work to take the first steps to becoming actively anti-racist. BOND’s report explores the experiences of people of colour working for UK international development organisations, both those based in the UK and overseas.
Resources
Anti-racism and decolonising. A framework for organisations (BOND, 2023)
This framework maps out how racism cuts across all areas of our organisations and shows the necessity of an anti-racist and holistic approach to decolonising our organisations to create a fairer, more equitable and racially just sector.
Rejuvenate
‘Rejuvenate’ is a project that recognises the value that children and young people can bring when they are given the space and support to do so. It hosts a ‘living archive’ of projects, resources, organisations and people. This offers resources for projects and practitioners working at the intersection between child/youth-led work and social change work.
Inclusive Language Guide (Oxfam, 2023)
Language has the power to reinforce or deconstruct systems of power that maintain poverty, inequality
and suffering. This guide supports people who have to communicate in English to think about how the way they write can subvert or inadvertently reinforce intersecting forms of inequality.
Books to buy
Learning Disobedience: Decolonizing Development Studies (Murrey, A and Daley, P, 2023)
The authors show how educators, activists and students are cultivating anti-racist decolonial practices, leading with a radical call to eradicate development studies, and counterbalancing this with new projects to decolonize development. Paperback and Kindle e-book versions available.
White Saviorism in International Development: Theories, Practices and Lived Experiences (Khan, T, Dickson, K, Sondarjee, M, 2023)
This collection from practitioners and academics unveils the implicit and explicit forms of White Saviorism in international development. It contains theoretical chapters, testimonies, stories and lived experiences from 19 contributors. Paperback and e-pub versions available ($7.99 USD).
Podcasts
Inclusive Education: Unheard Stories
EENET’s podcast series features education and development stakeholders living and working in contexts where learners and their communities experience exclusion, marginalisation and oppression. Podcast guests highlight the challenges learners face with accessing and participating in an inclusive, quality education. They discuss teachers and teaching, policy, attitudes, resources and funding, and much more. Episodes are available on SoundCloud (audio) and YouTube (video).
Videos
Children can do a lot (Rejuvinate)
This short animated video seeks to get people thinking about preconceived ideas of what children can and cannot do.