20-year-old man convicted in the savage sexual assault and murder of a four-year-old child in December last year, stating the crime falls into the "rarest of rare" category.
Published on 7 May 2021
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Every institution, be it the British Royal Family, the United Nations or a University are a product of the historical, cultural, and social spaces they inhabit. The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is no exception. Our pedagogy, the research we conduct and the stories that we tell are all affected by our collective history, including of colonialism.
Over the past years, IDS has taken the critical lens that we frequently apply to other societies and countries, turning it upon ourselves to better understand our layered history and challenge the potential reproduction of colonial legacies. The starting point for the discussion on decolonising IDS was from a group of Masters students, who in 2020 started an action to understand various colonial structures at IDS and how to disrupt their potential reproduction.