Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies: Decolonizing development and anthropology

Details

PROJECT SUMMARY 

AMU Project code 

EXT/vliruos/TH03/CSSH/Soc/01/2014 

Project status 

Ongoing 

Acronym  

CADES 

Project phase 

I 

Partner(s)/ country(ies) 

KU Leuven – KUL (Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology) 

Arba Minch University – AMU (Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology); 

University of Cape Town – UCT (Department of Social Anthropology) 

Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo – UEM (Department of Anthropology); and 

University of the Philippines Baguio – UPB (College of Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Sociology and Psychology) 

AMU coordinating office(s) 

Arba Minch University – AMU (Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology) 

Project type 

Education 

Project location 

AMU 

Target communities 

Offers Advanced Master in Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies (CADES) for AMU staff at KU Leuven, Belgium  

Project coordinator  

Kaleb Kassa (PhD) 

Investigator 

Kaleb Kassa (PhD) and others from partner institutions 

Total project budget (€) 

 

Project start 

1 September 2022 

Project end 

31 August 2027 

Contact person (e-mail) 

Dr Kaleb Kassa (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)  

Project Management Office 

 

Office of the Director for Grant and Collaborative Project Management: Dr. Thomas Torora (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)  

PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

Together with the departments of anthropology of Arba Minch University, Universidade Edu-ardo 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.