Reinstating the political in localisation
dans Interrogating Localisation from Social Justice Perspectives, Devlopment in Practice, 17 décembre 2025, Marie-Claude Savard
Marie-Claude Savard, directrice scientifique de l’Observatoire canadien sur les crises et l’action humanitaires (OCCAH), signe un article intitulé « Reinstating the political in localisation » dans le dernier numéro « Interrogating Localisation from Social Justice Perspectives » de la revue Development in Practice.
Résumé:
The political dimension of localisation has been obfuscated by technocracy. The largest aid agencies’ technical and managerial solutions to localisation do not challenge existing hierarchies. Rather, they consolidate the dominant paradigm by conditioning endogenous organisations to adopt the standards and approaches of the humanitarian sector’s elite organisations. A belief in the neutrality of technical and managerial standards depoliticises the reform, downplaying power dynamics, social conflicts and ideological considerations that are also embedded in localisation. Drawing on fifty interviews with aid professionals, this article argues that the common practice of “capacity building” is a conformity inducing mechanism that is paradoxically opposed to the political ideal of localisation. It suggests that reinstating the “political” in localisation, by decentring and disrupting its knowledge hierarchies, can yield transformative potential.
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Marie-Claude Savard, Professeure à l'ESG-UQAM, directrice scientifique, OCCAHProduit par
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