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Development Studies Association
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The UK based membership organisation for all those studying, researching and teaching in the field of global development.
For now, you'll find our news posted on LinkedIn and in our monthly newsletter.
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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · Sep 10
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As debates over tax, debt, and development intensify in Argentina, @mvbarlow.bsky.social’s new #OpenAccess book with DSA-OUP (@oupacademic.bsky.social) book series offers timely insight into why questions of taxation have become so politically charged.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Excellent new article in Third World Quarterly by Navtej Purewal & Althea-Maria Rivas on gendered racial capitalism. They critique the “smart economics” approach to gender equity & its colonial legacies.

Read here: shorturl.at/ptD9k
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November 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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We're delighted for Ilias Alami and Adam Dixon's book to be recognised by BISA members!
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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✨ Our friends at @mybisa.bsky.social and @eadi.bsky.social are hosting this Roundtable: Global Development Cooperation at a Crossroads: What Ground Rules for Partnership in a Fragmented World?
📅 28 November 2025, 1-2.30pm UK time
📍 Online - register here:
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November 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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💡 Is a new paradigm emerging for development cooperation and humanitarian policy?

Top scholars explore this in a joint special issue of @odi.global’s Development Policy Review and Disasters.

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November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Join us next Monday for Stefania Barca’s talk exploring how workers can drive ecological change, and why climate justice is social justice.

📅 10 Nov, 5pm
📍 SOASVDLT & Zoom

Register: shorturl.at/WNDbn

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November 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Ilias Alami's title in the @oupacademic.bsky.social - DSA book series has just won an award with @mybisa.bsky.social 🏆
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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📚 In a world where aid budgets are under pressure & global trade faces renewed barriers, @sbrazys_ucd’s The Invisible Hand(out): Aid, Access, and Unequal Globalization, one of the latest in the DSA–OUP book series, could not be more timely.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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The Politics of Non-Knowledge: the Deliberate Obstruction of Humanitarian Aid in Gaza (2023-25)
Part of the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice, 2025 from @lseid.bsky.social
📅 28 November
Find out more:
Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice, 2025
The Cutting Edge Issues in Development series is back for 2023 and 2024. View the guest lecture schedule here
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November 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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✍️ Need focused writing time (and some encouragement)?

Join the DSA Student Network’s online Shut Up and Write session — open to all DSA members! 📝

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November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Deadline extended!

Are you a US-based public health academic working on issues of health equity? If your work is under threat, the Sanctuary for Health Justice initiative at IDS could help.

You now have until 30 November to apply 👇
https://ids.pulse.ly/otlnmngso3

#PublicHealth #HealthEquity
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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With #COP30 around the corner, we're back with our COP blog series!

We'll be posting daily insights on the negotiations as they unfold in Belém.

First up: Sarah Colenbrander and Shandelle Steadman explore how the world's superpowers are influencing global climate action and implications for COP30.
COP30 in an age of superpowers: How Trump, Xi and Putin are shaping climate action
Russia, the US and China are shaping global climate action. Over the next two weeks in Belém, countries will attempt to advance the international climate agenda despite their profound and outsized inf...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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New online event!

Join us on Wed 12 Nov, 4pm GMT / 11am ET, for a book talk on ‘Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down’ with author Prof. Anand Pandian (Johns Hopkins University).
Moderated by Shivangi Kaushik (ODID)

Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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7 recommendations from @icai-uk.bsky.social report on #UKaid in Sudan include: ensuring sustained high-level political attention, backing priority status in UK development policy w/ multi-year protected funding, & adopting more agile aid delivery models.
UK aid to Sudan - an Independent Commission for Aid Impact review
Find out more about ICAI's review assessing the UK’s support for Sudan and people affected by the crisis in neighbouring countries
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November 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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A feminist agenda for social change: from deregulated markets to the wellbeing economy
Part of the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice, 2025 from @lseid.bsky.social
📅 14 November
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November 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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The relationships between climate change and land issues are complex. Ahead of #COP30, IDS fellow Ian Scoones argues we must confront who controls land and support approaches that restore ecosystems and strengthen local communities. 👇

https://ids.pulse.ly/xin22cc1wn
Climate change and land: Why COP30 must go beyond false solutions? - Institute of Development Studies
climate finance that’s needed for real solutions. climate finance that’s needed for real solutions at COP30
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November 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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📢Calling all DSA members from the Global South.

❓Could you be our next Council rep?

🗳️Nominations open till 3 December.

➡️Full details at: www.devstud.org.uk/2025/11/05/c...
November 6, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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📚 Ben Radley will discuss his book Disrupted Development in the Congo (DSA–OUP series) at King’s College London
📆 19 Novemeber
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Discussants: Christian Otchia & @ingridhk.bsky.social
🍷 A wine reception will follow, and all are welcome.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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📢Last chance for special issue contributions:
the geography of women’s labour force participation Focus on Asia & MENA in Journal of Development Perspectives
Co-edited by Niaz Asadullah & Uma Kambhampati
www.devstud.org.uk/2025/11/05/c...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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One of the things that makes @soasdevelopment.bsky.social distinctive is its traditional focus on the study of Africa, Asia and the Middle East 🌏

Read our Member Spotlight here ⤵️
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November 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Participatory grants may be the future of aid: so what have the pioneers learned? writes Dominic Vickers on the @bondngo.bsky.social blog
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November 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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📌 Join us at @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics for a discussion with Tony Addison and Alan Roe, Chaired by: Miguel Nino-Zarazua (SOAS) on:

🎤 Resources Matter: Ending Poverty While Protecting Nature

🗓️ 12 November, 5PM
📍 SOAS, B103

info and livestream🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
November 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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"Famine – the extreme scarcity of food – devastated Ethiopia’s Tigray region during and after a two-year war that began in November 2020. Yet, the famine’s impact is one of the least documented crises of recent years."

Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel writes for @uk.theconversation.com: bit.ly/3LuzSxD
Starvation as a weapon of war: how Ethiopia created a famine in Tigray
Famine was weaponised as part of a broader campaign of destruction in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Development cooperation at a tipping point: how, why and through what mechanisms do policy norms break? @eadi.bsky.social Blog and @idos-research.bsky.social working paper.

By @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social and @andypsumner.bsky.social
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November 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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The Campaign for Social Science Annual Sage Lecture 2025 - Truth and Trust: The Vital Role of Social Science in a Divided World.
✨ Part of @acadsocsciences.bsky.social
📅 20 November, 18.30-20.30
📍 Bush House, London

Find out more and register:
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November 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM