Department of Development Studies (DEV)

Reproducing Socio-ecological Life from Below: Towards a Planetary Political Economy of the Global Majority (2024)
Journal Article
Tansel, C. B., & Tilley, L. (2024). Reproducing Socio-ecological Life from Below: Towards a Planetary Political Economy of the Global Majority. Review of International Studies, 50(3), 514-533. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210524000251

Confronting the coming five decades from our present conjuncture demands – to paraphrase Antonio Gramsci’s famous mantra – both critical pessimism and a wilful politics of hope. In this article, we engage with the politics of climate breakdown and th... Read More about Reproducing Socio-ecological Life from Below: Towards a Planetary Political Economy of the Global Majority.

Review of: 'Community Economies in the Global South: Case Studies of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations and Economic Cooperation', by Caroline Shenaz Hossein and P. J. Christabell, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 288 pp., £81 (hardcover), £81 (ebook), ISBN: 9780198865629 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780192635068 (ebook) (2024)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, A. (2025). Review of: 'Community Economies in the Global South: Case Studies of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations and Economic Cooperation', by Caroline Shenaz Hossein and P. J. Christabell, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 288 pp., £81 (hardcover), £81 (ebook), ISBN: 9780198865629 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780192635068 (ebook). The Journal of Development Studies, 61(3), 487-489. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2024.2344951

Reflections on (im)mobilities and / in crisis (2024)
Book Chapter
Lindley, A. (2024). Reflections on (im)mobilities and / in crisis. In N. Piper, & K. Datta (Eds.), Elgar Companion to Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals (14-27). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802204513.00008

Despite the common framing of crisis and migration as anomalies outside the norm, they are in fact deeply embedded in histories of global development and change, including in the contemporary unfolding of global capitalism which has shaped Agenda 203... Read More about Reflections on (im)mobilities and / in crisis.

Mine clearance, peacebuilding and development: interactions between sustainable development goals and infrastructure in Angola (2024)
Journal Article
Ikpe, E., & Njeri, S. (2025). Mine clearance, peacebuilding and development: interactions between sustainable development goals and infrastructure in Angola. Peacebuilding, 13(1), 39-55. https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2024.2335427

In this article, we analyse the interaction between anti-vehicle mine (AVM) clearance and longer-term peacebuilding and development in relation to agricultural, conservation, trade, and infrastructural development priorities in the provinces of Cuand... Read More about Mine clearance, peacebuilding and development: interactions between sustainable development goals and infrastructure in Angola.

Flour blending can mitigate food insecurity and economic stress (2024)
Journal Article
Poole, N., Donovan, J., Kariuki, S., Rutsaert, P., Ibba, M. I., & Bentley, A. (2024). Flour blending can mitigate food insecurity and economic stress. Global Food Security, 41, Article 100758. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100758

Cereal flour blending can reduce food insecurity risks, as well as contribute to economic and nutrition goals. Yet, the potential for blending has not been realized, and new products have not become scalable commercial propositions. Numerous experime... Read More about Flour blending can mitigate food insecurity and economic stress.

Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces (2024)
Journal Article
Rivas, A. M., & Purewal, N. K. (2024). Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces. Development in Practice, 34(7), 893-909. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2024.2332277

Gender and development (GAD) is coming under increasing scrutiny for its entanglements with hegemonic systems of governance, policy, and knowledge. This article argues that GAD programs and/or development studies programs with teaching provision on g... Read More about Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces.

Foreword (2024)
Journal Article
Pringle, T., Hildebrandt, T., & Liu, J. (2024). Foreword. The China Quarterly, 257, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741024000353

The political economy of illicit drug crops: forum introduction (2024)
Journal Article
Thomson, F., Meehan, P., & Goodhand, J. (2024). The political economy of illicit drug crops: forum introduction. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 51(4), 763-800. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2328647

This article and the forum it introduces examine illicit drug crop (IDC) economies from agrarian perspectives. Examining IDCs as a group implies analysing how prohibition distinguishes them from other (licit) crops. We identify seven mechanisms throu... Read More about The political economy of illicit drug crops: forum introduction.

Decolonizing Gender Through Combining Ethnographic and Historical Research With Discovery-Based Pedagogies in Post–Civil War Northern Uganda (2024)
Other
Harris, C. (2024). Decolonizing Gender Through Combining Ethnographic and Historical Research With Discovery-Based Pedagogies in Post–Civil War Northern Uganda. London

This case study is based on a project from northern Uganda’s Acholiland, starting in 2007. Its initial research phase was implemented in two villages in Gulu District after the civil war against the Lord’s Resistance Army, followed by a grass-roots e... Read More about Decolonizing Gender Through Combining Ethnographic and Historical Research With Discovery-Based Pedagogies in Post–Civil War Northern Uganda.

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