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| 2nd Issue February 2025 Editorial Today we can announce the grand finale of our running podcast series with an episode on Black radical Politics and Pan-Africanism which we can highly recommend. On our blog, we are continuing the « Share your Decolonising Story » series with an approach from Kashmir and the series on methods innovation with a text on critical poetic inquiry. Our thematic focus is on work today – in addition to the usual picks, calls, vacancies and opinion pieces from our community.From our BlogThe Role of Critical Poetic Inquiry in Decolonising ‘Development’ »Critical poetic inquiry is an entry point for minoritized scholars and participants to protest dominant, euro-centric epistemologies, research texts, and societal injustice”, writes Nita Mishra in our third blog from our Methods Innovation task group: « Creative arts-based methods of doing research (…) provide Development Studies with an array of research tools foregrounding different ways of knowing and relating with the world. This is especially true for those who have something to say but are shy to use dominant forms of knowledge creation » Read more Thinking Beyond the Colonial Ecosystem »Imagining the efforts of decolonising to yield fruits in an ecosystem that is engineered and continues to reproduce colonial structures may be in someways paradoxical », writes Touseef Mir in our latest « Share your Decolonising Story » blog. A positive approach « should facilitate knowledges and praxis that dare to think and draw beyond Eurocentric imaginations, uphold the local/non-Eurocentric epistemologies as equally valid and appreciate the ability of such knowledges and praxis of producing solution(s) to their local problems ». He introduces a Kashmiri Online-Platform as a « baby step in the right direction » Read moreTo the blog overview Last Episode Current Podcast SeriesBlack Radical Politics and Pan-AfricanismWriter and researcher Kevin Ochieng Okoth joins us to discuss Pan-Africanism, black radical thought and politics in the making of and resistance to the global order. We talk about his critiques of Afropessimism and decolonial theory as well as his views on national liberation and Fanon. Read more and listenTo the podcast overview page News from the EJDROur journal, the European Journal of Development Research (EJDR), has a new list of its most cited papersas well as its most popular articles according to alternative metrics In addition, it’s got three new open access articles out:Decolonizing Development Studies: Rejecting or Repurposing the Master’s Tools?Rural Youth Aspirations in the Face of Environmental, Economic and Social Pressures: Transformation in the Vietnamese Mekong DeltaNo Development (Economics or Studies) Without Decolonisation Featured EADI Member: CSGD at The Open UniversityThe Centre for the Study of Global Development (CSGD) at The Open University, UK, works with scholars from different social science and geographic backgrounds to research problems of development to achieve progress for poor and marginalised groups in society. A recurrent theme throughout its recent work is how its partnerships and research pay particular attention to new ways to explore and understand what works to improve the lives of disadvantaged groups, and what to learn about resilience from their lived experiences. Read more in the Centre’s Annual ReportResearch Partnerships in FocusEvaluating the Quality of Global Research PartnershipsThis report provides recommendations for funding institutions to evaluate the quality of global research partnerships. These recommendations are applicable in the stage of project selection, proposal submission, and interviews (ex-ante), as well as for mid-term reviews and final project evaluations (ex-post). The report makes recommendations on what to evaluate and how to evaluate the quality of global research partnerships. Read more Highlight: International Organizations and the Cold WarIn seeking to understand the role that international organizations have played as sites of confrontation, this open access book edited by researchers from the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna also highlights their role as spaces for mediation and negotiation, particularly for middle-size powers and colonized or newly decolonized countries. Through multiple perspectives, based on a diverse array of historical sources, the authors collectively explore how international organizations were able to bridge and move beyond the Cold War divide by promoting common causes and shaping common scientific knowledge, communities and practices. Read more Thematic Focus: Work Indigenous migrant labourers and land: towards an exploration of indigenous’ socio-cultural reproduction in the Colombian Altillanura Agriculture and Human Values – Lorenza Arango – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) Labour Market Effects of India’s Termination from the United States’ GSP Chris Heitzig, Amrita Saha – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Exposed and exploited: climate change, migration and modern slavery in Bangladesh Ritu Bharadwaj, Devanshu Chakravarti, N. Karthikeyan et al. – International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) Report: Behind Bars: Invisible Farmers and Workers in the Cocoa Supply Chain Anna Laven & Martha Ataa-Asantewaa – INCLUDE Knowledge Platform Formalizing the Informal Waste Picker Economy for Sustainable Development in Nigeria Joseph Ochogwu Ph.D, Chikaodili Arinze Orakwue & Tonye Marclint Ebiede – INCLUDE Knowledge Platform The Effects of Imitative Capitalism on Integrating Women and Youth in Maghreb Labour Markets Dina Zabaneh – German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Premium Members Publication Picks Towards a progressive industrial policy for the Twin Transformation in the European Union Werner Raza – Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE) ‘Threatening Dystopias’: Taking an agrarian view of climate adaptation in the Sundarbans Society + Space – Nithya Natarajan – Department of International Development King’s College London (DID) Linking Up Degrowth in/From the South With Provincialised UPE: Mangrove and Groundwater Conservations in Semarang, Indonesia Asia Pacific Viewpoint – Bosman Batubara, Marie Belland, Michelle Kooy – IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (IHE Delft) Systemic exclusion from a South African social assistance transfer Kelle Howson, Siyanda Baduza, Thato Setambule, Thobani Khumalo – The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) The Welfare Effects of Trade Preferences Removal: Evidence for UK–India Trade Amrita Saha – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Strategic responses to autocratization in international democracy promotion Democratization – Julia Leininger, Karina Mross, Jonas Wolff – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Scaling up Global Gateway: Boosting coordination in development and export finance San Bilal, Andreas Klasen – European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) Displaced lives: rethinking survival, social reproduction, and (in)security with refugees International Feminist Journal of Politics – Raksha Gopal, Luisa Lupo – The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) Navigating “Promising Victimhood:” Discretionary Practices of UNHCR Caseworkers in Rwanda’s Refugee Resettlement Process Journal on Migration and Human Security – Kine Marie Bækkevold, Ingunn Bjørkhaug, Shai André Divon – Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric)Read more about EADI Members Policy Publication Picks by Members Path to zero deforestation? Mitigating cattle-driven deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Constanze vom Hoff, Thao Dao & Dominik Suri – Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung ZEF Decolonisation in the second space age Trine Rosengren Pejstrup & Ian Klinke – Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) Escaping Khartoum: Understanding forced displacement Samahir Elmubarak – Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI) Humanitarian Learning Resource Guide Brigitte Rohwerder – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) FfD4 as a Turning Point – Overcoming Challenges to Strengthen Sustainable Development Finance ETTG (European Think Tanks Group) – Damien Barchiche, Ben Katoka, Karim Karaki, Niels Keijzer, Iliana Olivié, María Santillán Household enterprises in Egypt: between survival and vulnerability Amirah El-Haddad, Chahir Zaki – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)Picks from International Partner Networks Call for applications and inputs: advancing gender equality in scientific organizations Deadline: 05 March 2025 – International Science Council ISC Preparing national research ecosystems for AI: strategies and progress International Science Council ISC Construyendo puentes entre disciplinas Discursos, identidades, fuentes A. Schrott (coord) – The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO Canción con todos Culturas populares, subalternidades y decolonialidades en América Latina P. Alabarces, L. Jordán González (coord) – The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO |
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| JobsLecturer in Gender and Social Development Deadline: 09 March 2025 – Department of International Development King’s College London (DID) Senior Research Specialist – Environment and Climate Justice Deadline: 09 March 2025 – United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Quantitative Researcher, Choosing Islamic Conservatism Deadline: 12 March 2025 – Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House (ODID) PhD scholarship Land degradation, environmental justice and socio-cultural dynamics in Africa Deadline: 15 March 2025 – Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung ZEF See more job offers on the EADI websiteOpinions .Trump’s Sudan Snub: Are we better off without him? Munzoul Assal – Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI) Policy for a rules-based multipolar world Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Axel Berger – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) US Economic Decline Has Been Greatly Exaggerated. Interview with Sean Starrs Jacobin – Department of International Development King’s College London (DID) Trump’s tariffs and labour-market effects Amrita Saha, Chris Heitzig – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Ten fashion trends to adapt to climate change after 2030 Luciana dos Santos Duarte, Tanishka Majukar – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) Kenya and Ghana’s visa reforms: Paving the way for free movement in Africa Amanda Bisong, Nancy Adossi – European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) The IMO’s mid-term measures: Navigating the impact on food security Marie Fricaudet – Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI) Walking the road to the Fourth Financing for Development Conference and beyond Pia Rattenhuber, Marie-France Boucher & Amina Ebrahim – United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)CallsCall for Papers: Social Cohesion in Displacement Contexts, Bonn, 23-25 September 2025 Deadline: 07 March 2025 – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Call for Abstracts: Resistance agriculture: Farmers, land and legal mobilisation in Palestine. Special Issue « Journal of Agrarian Change » and symposium in The Hague Deadline: 15 March 2025 – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) Call for papers: Special Issue on Mining and the Forest. Journal of Forest Economics Deadline: 30 June 2025 – Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique pour l’Étude de la Mondialisation et du Développement (GEMDEV) Revue internationale des études du développement (RIED) – Appel permanent – Dossiers thématiques No deadline – Sorbonne Development Studies Institute (IEDES) See more calls on the EADI WebsiteTrainingDisaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation Mainstreaming, Online, 02 – 06 June 2025 The Centre for Rural Development, Humboldt University, Berlin SLE Analyze and explore the issues involved in sharing the rent of an extractive project: 16 -20 June 2025 Application Deadline: 25 April 2025 – Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI) Renforcer les systèmes de santé et les politiques de lutte contre les maladies transmissibles et non transmissibles: 07 18 July 2025 Application Deadline: 07 May 2025 – Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI) Management of Development Projects, Online, 14 July 2025 – 18 July 2025 The Centre for Rural Development, Humboldt University, Berlin SLE See more courses and tranings on the EADI websiteopinion continued Southern African Garment endeavors and impressions’ – Part 1: The lives of managers – Southern African cross-border manufacturing operations in times of lockdowns Andries Bezuidenhout & Søren Jeppesen – Copenhagen Business School, Department of Management, Society and Communication (MSC) |
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