ED-Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies: Decolonizing development and anthropology

BE2022ICP213A101 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2027 Together with the departments of anthropology of Arba Minch University, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, the University of Cape Town and the University of the Philippines Baguio, the 1-year advanced Master programme in Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies at KU Leuven (hereafter, CADES) proposes an ICP Connect Project that wants to contribute to the decolonization of development paradigms – and ultimately to sustainable and equitable development – through an educational and partnership programme centred on World Anthropologies and decolonized approaches. As such, our project argues that sustainable and equitable development can only be achieved through the decolonization of development paradigms; the latter can be seen as providing both the goal and the pathways of change that can lead to sustainable development and social and ecological justice.