Spring 2026 Workshop: Debt, Development, & Rebelry

Keynote Conversation: Anti-Colonial Feminist Approaches to Debt, Development, and Rebelry

The workshop continues our Co-Lab’s goals of fostering intellectual collaboration among scholars, artists, and activists in the Global South on topics urgent to the capitalist crises of our time. This time we consider the deadly economic triad (trade + finance + extractivism) that has prevailed from the apex of Western imperialism to 20th and 21st century projects of development. In particular, we are interested in mapping the critical tools and methods of an anticolonial feminist analysis that address the economic, social and ecological devastation that the above triad causes, and consider the many past and present forms of dissent to the colonial contours of the global economy by the political and corporate elites, and radical and progressive movements and forces of opposition.