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DISP: Rethinking Development's ArchivesMain MenuDeconstructing DevelopmentIntroductionThis collection of works explores the idea and practice of "development", seeking to challenge what has been taught in the Western canon by bringing forth scholarship from the Middle East, mainly written by womenI. Gender"The ungendered body does not exist"II. Modernization"Thinking otherwise" on modernity and progressIII. SovereigntyPracticing culture, community, and self without dominationReview of Imagine Otherwise Podcast "Lila Sharif on the Settler Colonial Politics of Food"AfterwordMusings about the research process and situating this work in a broader agenda to "decolonize the curriculum"Jamila Beesley0366585770914f790635d09a826cc76f2c1be630
1media/umm2.jpg2020-05-09T22:21:28-07:00Jamila Beesley0366585770914f790635d09a826cc76f2c1be630"Um Al Zalghouta" | Syria5by Huda, art by Sara Khayatimage_header2020-05-10T12:58:02-07:00Jamila Beesley0366585770914f790635d09a826cc76f2c1be630
1media/mahmoud darwish.jpg2020-05-09T22:22:05-07:00Jamila Beesley0366585770914f790635d09a826cc76f2c1be630Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems6by Mahmoud Darwishimage_header9951742020-05-10T12:58:37-07:00Jamila Beesley0366585770914f790635d09a826cc76f2c1be630