Gender and Development and Australia: Confronting Australia’s Colonial Past

Annabel Dulhunty ()
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Annabel Dulhunty: Australian National University, Crawford School of Public Policy

A chapter in Gender and Development: Perspectives from Australia and the Pacific, 2026, pp 71-91 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the past decade, there have been increasing calls to decolonise Gender and Development, challenging its epistemological assumptions and practices. In this chapter, I draw on Rivas and Purewal’s (2024) critiques of Gender and Development, namely that scholarship and practice have been inattentive to race and coloniality, and that only watered-down additive approaches to intersectionality have been adopted by the sector. In this chapter, I reflect on what these criticisms mean for Australia’s Gender and Development policy landscape and find that Australian development frameworks fail to meaningfully engage with race, coloniality or intersectionality. Through examining Australia’s colonial and neo-colonial history in the Pacific, I argue that Australia must reckon with its imperialist legacy if Gender and Development work is to be meaningful.

Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-4842-2_4

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