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26.6.2025
Annonce
Decolonizing science: «It’s a journey, not a checklist»
How can we engage in science that is not only excellent, but also just? What does it mean to decolonize research and teaching in a discipline like geography, with its
Image : Geographisches Institut Universität Zürich
Decolonizing Practices and Institutional Settings
On this website, we compile and analyze existing evidence, methodologies, and case-studies to identify strategies employed by research partners to decolonize North-South research collaborations. On this basis we offer recommendations
2025
Publication
Interview Medinat Malefakis
In this episode, Joseph is joined for an interview with Dr Medinat Malefakis. She lectures on the Humanities, Social, and Political Sciences at ETH Zurich. Her research focuses on development
2024
Livre
Schweitzers Lambarene
Die erste kritische Geschichte des berühmtem Albert Schweitzer Spitals als Hilfsprojekt, das trotz seiner humanitären Ausrichtung in koloniale Haltungen verstrickt blieb.
2024
Article
Décolonisation de la coopération mondiale en matière de recherche
Une collaboration décolonisée entre les chercheuses et chercheurs du Sud et du Nord est réclamée par de nombreux acteurs. La Commission pour le partenariat scientifique avec les pays en développement
Image : Anna von Sury
2024
Prise de position (document)
Reflections on Decolonising Knowledge for Development: An invitation to an EADI conversation
The European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)’s 50th anniversary creates a moment for reflection amidst what is increasingly viewed as a time of crisis in development and
2023
Prise de position (document)
Towards Structural Changes for Building Responsible Academic Partnerships
EADI Blog by Roseanna Avento, Kelly Brito and Susanne von Itter elaborating how funding, inclusive knowledge and spaces for discourses around needs and equity contribute to responsible academic partnerships.
2023
Livre
Challenging Global Development - Towards Decoloniality and Justice
This book presents contributions to decolonize Development Studies. It seeks to promote and sustain new forms of solidarity and conviviality that work towards achieving social justice. Recognising global poverty and
2023
Prise de position (document)
Global North–Global South research partnerships are still inequitable
Historical legacies of colonialism and inequity are still preventing us from realizing equitable and mutually beneficial partnerships. Despite increasing calls for more equitable Southern engagement in agenda-setting processes actual practice
2023
Article scientifique
Pack up the parachute: why global north–south collaborations need to change
Nature spoke to four global-south researchers who say that it’s time for their global-north colleagues to pack up the parachute and have frank discussions about how to conduct equitable collaborations.
Image : Credit: Grant Maiden
18.12.2023
Annonce
"Wie sinnvoll ist Entwicklungshilfe?"
Advents- und Weihnachtszeit ist Spendenzeit. Doch wie sinnvoll ist Entwicklungshilfe überhaupt? Das diskutieren in der neuen Folge des Podcasts «Laut + Leis» Elísio Macamo vom Zentrum für Afrikastudien der Uni
2023
Publication
Are We Ready for Decolonisation?
In 2023, a powerful MMS Symposium entitled The Changing Role of CSOs in International Health Cooperation and Global Health took place in which the member organisations shared a mutual need
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19.6.2023
Annonce
Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not.
Interactive charts on Research and Development.
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2023
Publication
Blog: Decolonisation in Visual Communication
When planning a communication campaign that relies on photographs and moving images it is important to be aware of stereotyping and possible colonial influences in our visual communications. In this
Image : DRC 2023: Justin Makangara / Action de Carême/ Fairpicture
29.6.2023
Annonce
Ein neuer Blick auf die koloniale Vergangenheit der Schweiz
SRF Kultur-Talk: Historiker Georg Kreis hat zusammengetragen, wie vielfältig Schweizerinnen und Schweizer am Kolonialismus beteiligt waren. Im Kultur-Talk spricht er über die koloniale Vergangenheit und ihre Konsequenzen auf die Gegenwart.
2023
Article
«Appels à la décolonisation de la collaboration Nord-Sud en matière de recherche»
5.5.2023 – Les défis mondiaux actuels nécessitent une collaboration mondiale. Les pratiques coloniales de la collaboration Nord-Sud en matière de recherche, qui entraînent une dépendance et une invisibilisation, compromettent les
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2023
Publication
Localisation - can you still contribute as a professional from the Global North?
In international development, the process of handing over more decision-making power and resources to local actors is called localisation. At Forum cinfo 22, Shazia Islamshah and Pascal Bijleveld, as humanitarian
8.6.2023
Annonce
Open Science as a Means to Decolonize Scientific Publishing and Foster Fairer Research Collaborations
Scientific publishing is a cornerstone of research. However, current publishing systems are highly inequitable. In an interactive virtual workshop, speakers and participants jointly identified challenges and explored ways of decolonizing
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2023
Publication
IGS North-South Tracer Study 2022: Decolonizing a PhD Programme and Beyond
The IGS North-South Tracer Study critically examines the IGS North-South and reflects on decolonizing the academia.
Image : Unsplash.com, Vojetech Bruzek
2023
Prise de position (document)
How ethical can research relationships be in Development Studies?
Contribution in an EADI BLOG on Development Research
Image : P. L. Tandon
2023
Publication
“Diversity is the key to decolonizing research”
From climate change to biodiversity loss or conflicts over resource use: today’s crises are global. In tackling them, North–South research collaboration plays an important role, especially by providing knowledge for
19.12.2022
Annonce
Decolonizing Swiss-African Research Collaborations
How to decolonize Swiss-Africa research collaborations? Anja Soldat summarizes the discussion at the Swiss Researching Africa Days on decolonizing Swiss-African Research Collaborations in the latest SSAS newsletter.
2022
Rapport
Wenn die Forschung koloniale Züge annimmt
Im Rahmen der Nord-Süd-Forschungszusammenarbeit werden die Länder des Südens mehrheitlich mit Forschungsgeldern und -konzepten aus dem Norden erforscht. Die Dekolonisation erfordert eine Korrektur der unausgewogenen Machtverhältnisse.
2022
Publication
Decolonial and feminist approaches in academic partnerships
UniPID Podcast: How can feminist and decolonial approaches help deconstruct the power dynamics and pre-established assumptions in global academic partnerships? Get to know more with Violeta Gutierrez Zamora, early stage
2022
Fiche d'information
Decolonising academic collaboration - South-North perspectives
Decolonisation was originally intended as a revolutionary concept and approach, but contemporary debates, including in the global North, have arguably mainstreamed the concept of decolonisation. Indeed, one might ask whether
2022
Publication
Radical Alternatives or Ambivalent Engagements? Development Understandings from the Global South
EADi Blog by Alba Castellsagué and Sally Matthews
25.8.2022
Annonce
Schweizer Museen und Sammlungen aus der Kolonialzeit
Wie viel Kolonialismus gibt es in Schweizer Museen? Viel – das zeigt die Aufarbeitung im Bernischen Historischen Museum. Beitrag im 10vor10 vom 25.08.2022.
2021
Article scientifique
“My Flight Arrives at 5 am, Can You Pick Me Up?”: The Gatekeeping Burden of the African Academic
Over the past decade, there has been increased awareness and discourse around the inequalities which structure North–South academic collaboration. The purpose of this discussion is to look at the other
2021
Article
Decoloniality and anti-oppressive practices for a more ethical ecology
Christopher H. Trisos, Jess Auerbach & Madhusudan Katti
24.8.2021
Annonce
Masakhane MT: Decolonise Science
Many words common to science have never been written in African languages. Now, researchers from across Africa are changing that.
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2021
Rapport
Research colonialism still plagues Africa
African researchers are suffering from power dynamics that favour global North collaborators. While some initiatives are helping build local capacity, others undervalue African collaborators. COVID-19 is aiding the creation of
Image : Copyright: Je'nine May
2021
Rapport
Risk dumping in field research: some researchers are safer than others
EADI BLOG by Linda Johnson and Rodrigo Mena
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2020
Article scientifique
Do no harm? Field research in the Global South: Ethical challenges faced by research staff
The rise of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to rigorously evaluate development policy is characterized by a wide range of ethical complexities. While the literature has identified ethical challenges pertaining to

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Decolonising Global Development Research Podcast Series

EADI: Decolonising Knowledge for Development

Decolonizing science: «It’s a journey, not a checklist»

Decolonizing Practices and Institutional Settings

Interview Medinat Malefakis

Schweitzers Lambarene

Décolonisation de la coopération mondiale en matière de recherche

Reflections on Decolonising Knowledge for Development: An invitation to an EADI conversation

Towards Structural Changes for Building Responsible Academic Partnerships

Challenging Global Development - Towards Decoloniality and Justice

Global North–Global South research partnerships are still inequitable

Pack up the parachute: why global north–south collaborations need to change

"Wie sinnvoll ist Entwicklungshilfe?"

Are We Ready for Decolonisation?

Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not.

Blog: Decolonisation in Visual Communication

Ein neuer Blick auf die koloniale Vergangenheit der Schweiz

«Appels à la décolonisation de la collaboration Nord-Sud en matière de recherche»

Localisation - can you still contribute as a professional from the Global North?

Open Science as a Means to Decolonize Scientific Publishing and Foster Fairer Research Collaborations

IGS North-South Tracer Study 2022: Decolonizing a PhD Programme and Beyond

How ethical can research relationships be in Development Studies?

“Diversity is the key to decolonizing research”

Decolonizing Swiss-African Research Collaborations

Wenn die Forschung koloniale Züge annimmt

Decolonial and feminist approaches in academic partnerships

Decolonising academic collaboration - South-North perspectives

Radical Alternatives or Ambivalent Engagements? Development Understandings from the Global South

Schweizer Museen und Sammlungen aus der Kolonialzeit

“My Flight Arrives at 5 am, Can You Pick Me Up?”: The Gatekeeping Burden of the African Academic

Decoloniality and anti-oppressive practices for a more ethical ecology

Masakhane MT: Decolonise Science

Research colonialism still plagues Africa

Risk dumping in field research: some researchers are safer than others

Do no harm? Field research in the Global South: Ethical challenges faced by research staff

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