Episode #8 of The Power Shift: Decolonising Development explores the processes of racialisation inherent in international development, with a focus on critical reflexivity and praxis. Kamna Patel explores this from their personal and professional perspective of living and working in the UK, evidencing how politics of difference and processes of Othering have constructed the basis for international development practice. Kamna proposes critical reflexivity as a tool to enact anti-racism practices within the industry of international development, and advocates for enacting change through everyday actions which work towards changing the discourse surround anti-racism and decolonisation.Kamna Patel is an Associate Professor of Development Studies at University College London with a research focus on race and racialisation and the development sector, critical reflexivity and praxis, and land and housing tenure in southern cities. For the past 18 months, she has been Principal Advisor on Race and Diversity at the INGO Christian Aid shaping an anti-racist agenda and leading the efforts of the organisation to become anti-racist. With a scholar identity as a reflexive practitioner, Kamna is committed to cycles of theorisation, research and practice in her work having directly engaged with different parts of the sector including universities, INGOs/NGOs and development consultancy over nearly 20 years. If you’re interested to find out more about Kamna’s work, take a look here:Twitter @kamnatweetsThe Barlett Development Planning Unit – University College London (UCL)Recent work:Race and a decolonial turn in development studies: Third World Quarterly (2020)Being Cosmopolitan: Marketing Development Studies in the Neoliberal University (2022)The value of development researchers: structural racism, universities and UK Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) (2022)Resource recommendations:Frantz FanonWalter RodneyPriyamvada Gopa, Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent

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