DSA Bulletin Nov 2019 highlights global challenges research

No 35: November 2019
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DSA News
DSA2020 Conference: New Leadership for Global Challenges

Call for Panels is now closed. Call for Papers OPENS 29 November
The call for panels for the DSA2020 conference is now CLOSED. Decisions on which panels are
accepted will be made by 25th November. The Call for Papers will then open on 29th November
via the website. Keep an eye on the conference website for all rules, updates and guidelines.
Call for Nominations - DSA Dissertation Prize 2020

The call for nominations for MA or MSc dissertations in international development or related
subject programmes at DSA affiliated institutions in the UK is now OPEN. Nominations must be
made by the Heads of Department/Centre.
View our webpage for further information.
Call deadline: 16 December 2019
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Development Studies Association
The Professional Association for Development Research and Knowledge
New DSA Fund - PGR & ECR (PhD and Masters)

The DSA will be allocating a budget of GBP 7000 per year to support Post Graduate Researchers
including PhD Students and Early Career Researcher (PhD and Masters) in collective research
and/or networking opportunities.
View our webpage detailing all the criteria/eligibility.
Deadline: 15 January 2020
Announcement for Global South Members

There were deliberations during the DSA 2019 conference for the need to have global South
members of DSA who are also residents in global South as members of DSA Council. The reason
for this is to give adequate representation to members in the global South at the DSA Council.
In this regard, the Council acknowledged the importance of having representation of global
South members on Council, therefore it was agreed by the Council to have two representatives
of global South members in the Council. These persons will be chosen through an online election
which will be held amongst global South members.
It is therefore being announced for the information of members from global South who have the
interest, passion to serve and time to sacrifice to look out for the call for nominations on the
DSA website and present themselves for the election. We also encourage all global South
members to participate in the online election when the time is due.
Oyinlola Ogunpaimo and Felix Danso, DSA Africa Study Group
Robtel Pailey - DSA2019 Keynote paper - Open access

An expanded version of Robtel Pailey’s 2019 Development Studies Association conference
keynote was recently published in the journal Development and Change. In the spirit of 'opening
up development', it is open access for the next six months.
‘Meeting the Challenges’ workshop series

Our recent workshop series co-funded by ESRC aimed to understand better the opportunities for
and barriers to cross-disciplinary, international research, exploring global challenges such as
water, urban development, poverty and climate change. Videos and reports from the workshops
are available on the DSA website
The convenors of the seven workshops came together at the DSA Conference in a roundtable
event to discuss the findings. The five key messages from this workshop series is now reported in
a briefing paper which you can view via the webpages.

Seeking new book proposals for DSA-OUP series

The Development Studies Association edits a book series on Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research
and Practice in International Development Studies, which is published by Oxford University Press.
The series profiles research monographs that will shape the theory, practice, and teaching of
international development for a new generation of scholars, students, and practitioners. We are
seeking exciting proposals for new titles in the series. Recent titles in the series include Playing
with Fire: Deepened Financial Integration and Changing Vulnerabilities of the Global South by
Yilmaz Akyüz and Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public
Transport in an African Metropolis by Matteo Rizzo. The series editors can be contacted for
further information about the series or for discussing prospective book proposals through the
email address: dsabookseries(at)devstud.org.uk
DSA Study Group News
Gender, Policy & Practice Study Group

Opening for new study group convenor
Tina Wallace is no longer able to convene the Gender, Policy & Practice Study Group and so the
group is looking for a new convenor. If anyone is interested to take on the role as convenor,
please contact Tina on tinacwallace(at)icloud.com
DSA Premium Members

Premium membership enables your institution to lend strong support to the DSA's mission to
represent the discipline, while also gaining access to the full range of DSA services: conference,
website, Heads of Centres meetings, etc. If your institution is interested to join the list below,
please email: president(at)devstud.org.uk
● CIDT, University of Wolverhampton
● Department of Development Studies and the Department of Economics, SOAS
● Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London
● Development Policy and Practice, DPP, Open University
● Global Development Academy, University of Edinburgh
● IDS, University of Sussex
● International Development Department, University of Birmingham

● International Development Institute, King's College London
● Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford
● GDI, University of Manchester
● School of International Development, University of East Anglia (UEA)
● The Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID)
● Department of International Development, London School of Economics (LSE)
● Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich

Premium member news
Global Development Institute (GDI)

ESID Flagship conference highlights key findings of 8 year research
centre.
Professor Sam Hickey, Joint Director of Research, Effective States and Inclusive
Development (ESID) Research Centre,
In this 30minute podcast, Professor Hickey sat down with Duncan Green and summarised the
work of ESID and its findings after 8 years of research. Listen here to the full interview.
How the co-production of knowledge can help urban transformation

Diana Mitlin is the principle author on new research, funded by the Leverhulme Trust,
exploring the importance of participatory development.
Read the Working Paper.
New research focussing on spatial planning strategies

Seth Schindler along with J. Miguel Kanai, has published research in which they argue that
infrastructure-led development constitutes an emerging international development regime in
which the priority is “getting the territory right”.
FutureDAMS
Dr Barnaby Dye, a research associate within the FutureDAMS research and capacity development
partnership, appeared on a BBC World report to discuss ‘the challenge of dams’ and the critical
trade-offs involved in dam decision making.
GDI academics cited widely in major reports

Professor Richard Heeks was cited widely in UNCTAD’s Digital Economy Report 2019, which Dr.
Chris Foster also contributed towards.
GDI Blog: Foregone Digital Dividends

Using statistics on digital technologies in ten African countries, Dr Gindo Tampubolon explores
the concept of digital financial exclusion and what reducing this may mean for inclusive
development. Read the full blog post here.
Oxford Department of International Development

(ODID)
ODID has welcomed Professor Diego Sánchez-Ancochea, Professor of
the Political Economy of Development, as the new Head of
Department.

ODID has recently published its 2019 Annual Report, which highlights new research, publications,
events, honours and awards, student activities and more.
The Refugee Economies Programme at the Refugee Studies Centre has published four new
reports based on research in Ethiopia and Kenya.
The latest issue of Forced Migration Review, which includes a major feature on ‘Return:
voluntary, safe, dignified and durable?’ plus a mini-feature on ‘Towards understanding and
addressing the root causes of displacement’, is now online.
Cheryl Doss, Senior Departmental Lecturer and Associate Professor, has been named an Honorary
Fellow of the African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE).
Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College

London
DPU’s Prof. Adriana Allen joins team to produce UNEP’s Global Environment
Outlook Report for Cities
DPU's Prof Adriana Allen joins a team of international experts to produce UNEP’s Global
Environment Outlook (GEO) Report for Cities, and will act as a co-leader of the final chapter
that examines pathways for bold city action towards environmentally just urbanisation.
DPU's Catalina Ortiz participates at 2019 World Human Rights Cities Forum
Dr Catalina Ortiz was invited to the 2019 World Human Rights Cities Forum, held in the city of
Gwangju, Korea (Sept 30 – Oct 3), to be part of the Special Session on the Right to Housing in
Asia.
DPU collaborate with SDI and urbaMonde to launch a mobile phone photography competition
The competition, #ChangeOurPicture, is open to anyone who lives in an informal settlement in

Africa.
DPU staff participate at the RC21 conference in Delhi
The 2019 edition of the conference, held in Delhi, titled “In and Beyond the City: Emerging
Ontologies, Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures” featured contributions from DPU’s Dr
Catalina Ortiz and Prof. Camillo Boano as well as DPU PhD
‘Map-making by City-makers’: DPU research nominated for UCL’s #MadeAtUCL initiative
We are excited that the action-research conducted in Lima as part of ReMapRisk and cLIMA sin
Riesgo has been selected as “one of the top 100 stories of disruptive discoveries from UCL”.

Department of International Development,

London School of Economics (LSE)
PositiveNegatives and Ipas awarded Funding from KEISG
Professor Ernestina Coast has been awarded £96,000 by the LSE’s Knowledge Exchange & Impact
Strategy Group (KEISG) to work with PositiveNegatives and Ipas to create contextually-relevant
stories, likely with a social media focus – to reach and engage adolescents aged 10-19 years in
Ethiopia, Malawi and Zambia about abortion, contraception, and abortion-related care.
Update from our Head of Department, Professor Ken Shadlen

Professor Shadlen presented the keynote lecture at a seminar in Buenos Aires on Argentina's
possible accession to the Patent Cooperation Treaty. The event took place in the Bolsa de
Comercio de Buenos Aires (the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange) on Wednesday 28 August. Professor
Shadlen also presented a paper "TRIPS, Patents, and Drugs in India," co-authored with Margaret
Kyle (ParisMines) and Bhaven Sampat (Columbia) at the annual meeting of EPIP (European Policy
for Intellectual Property), 11-13 September, in Zurich.
Dr Kar and Dr Sequeria on this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Dr Sohini Kar and Dr Sandra Sequeria we interviewed by sciencemag.com for their opinions about
this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Whilst Dr Sequeria congratulates the
winners, Dr Kar encourages caution when using randomized controlled trials in the fight against
poverty. You can read the full article here.
One Year Anniversary for the CRP Blog

The CRP Blog turned one on Thursday 3 October. Over the past year, the blog has published
insightful and thought provoking articles on Syria, Iraq, DRC and Somalia, covering an array of
topics. You can check out the CRP blog here.
Conflict Research Programme – LSE

The Conflict Research Programme Blog celebrates its 1 year
anniversary this month! The platform showcases the ongoing research from across our five focus
countries covering a range of different themes, including the political marketplace, civicness
and identity politics.
Read some of our latest blogs from our 2018 Conflict Research Fellows:
Recycling as bricolage: Training the Police Nationale Congolaise by Michel Thill
Protest movements in Iraq in the age of a ‘new civil society’ by Zahra Ali
The opportunity for local peacebuilding interventions: The case of Kirkuk, Iraq by Dylan
O’Driscoll
Today’s Refugees are Tomorrow’s Activists: Transnational civil society and diaspora activism in
Iraqi Kurdistan, Somaliland and South Sudan by Yaniv Voller

Department of Development Studies and the Department

of Economics, SOAS
Adam Hanieh’s book Money, Markets, Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation
Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East (CUP) has been awarded the
2019 British International Studies Association International Political Economy Group Book Prize.
Jens Lerche was selected as Panel Speaker on 'labour market inequality and policy' at the 61st
Annual Conference of the ISLE ( India Society of Labour Economists ) in Patiala, India, December
7 to 9, 2019.
Subir Sinha delivered the lecture The Prawn That Flew to the Waldorf Astoria: On Commodities
and Frontiers on the Margins of Britain's Indian Colonies at the University of Michigan - Ann
Arbor on October 11.
CIDT, University of Wolverhampton

Civil society from emerging nations share their views on forests in
danger and EU policies – CIDT
Fern, with help from other EU NGOs, regularly facilitates policy dialogues between Southern
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), EU government and industry stakeholders. This year provided
an opportunity to discuss the formidable public momentum behind protecting forests and the
climate, and to share hopes and concerns about the proposed European Green Deal and
Commission Communication to protect and restore the world’s forests.
Intensive workshop supports planning of large projects for 4 million refugees in Turkey – CIDT
Following a needs assessment exercise, Philip Dearden (Head of CIDT) conducted a workshop in
Results Based Management (RBM) and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) for ILO staff in order to
help improve the quality and results focus of ILO projects. The intensive workshop which was
held in Ankara, Turkey, was attended by 31 ILO staff, all of whom had successfully completed
CIDT’s RBM online course prior to the training.
IDS, University of Sussex

IDS releases its Annual Review 2019
Accountability Amidst Fragility, Conflict, and Violence: Learning from Recent Cases
Cash Transfer Programming: Trends and Patterns Among Irish Aid’s Partners
DFID funds programme on Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture
Call for Expressions of Interest: experiences of integrating Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB)
in development and/or humanitarian programmes

DPP, The Open University

SAGE Learning hubs offer second chance for girls denied a
basic education - Girls from some of the poorest districts in
Zimbabwe are beginning an accelerated learning programme directed and co-ordinated by the
OU’s International Development Office. Read more…
Supporting community organisations’ agroecological innovation for sustainable, socially

equitable development - Les Levidow leads a new £181,000 AHRC-funded research partnership
for an agroecology-based solidarity economy in Latin America. Read more…
Teamwork is key to educating the world’s children - Transforming the Education Workforce is
launched at the UN General Assembly. Primary research for the report was carried out by Freda
Wolfenden. Read more…
We must incorporate ‘gerontechnology’ into urban development policy - Hannah R. Marston

from the OU’s Digital Health and Wellbeing Special Interest Group is co-author of a paper
recommending a key update to the WHO’s Global Age-Friendly Cities Guide. Read more…
China in Africa research translated into free course - The research project led by Giles Mohan
has concluded with a course on how Chinese investment in African oil is playing out. Read more…
Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich

NRI’s multi-stage impact evaluation of the Better Cotton Initiative for
smallholder cotton producers in India, led by Ravi Kumar, has been
awarded a runner-up prize in the biennial Evaluation for
Transformational Change Award given by the World Bank, IFAD and the
International Development Evaluation Association. For more detail of the award see here and for
the final report see here.
Institutional member News
Humanitarian Academy for Development, HAD

Talk on Research Careers in the Development and Aid Sector
The Humanitarian Academy for Development (HAD) maintains
strong relationships with universities, with a view to bridge the gap between academics and
practitioners working on international development and aid. As part of this work, our Head of
Research, Dr Jennifer Philippa Eggert, was invited to give a talk to students in the Department of
Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes University. The talk, which was very well received, focused on
how to build a research career in the international development and humanitarian aid sector.
The subsequent Q&A session provided the students with an opportunity to ask questions about
working in the sector.

Courses
School of International Development, University of

East Anglia
Free online course on Environmental Justice
5 week course & 4 hours per week
See all the details.

The University of Manchester’s University College for Interdisciplinary
Learning has a new course on SDGs. The course is open to all
University of Manchester students, is free and assigns credits. Contributors have included Nicola
Banks (SDG 8) Edward Ampratwum and Matthew Walsham (SDG 1) with inputs from David Hulme,
Diana Mitlin, Stephanie Barrientos, Richard Heeks and Kunal Sen.
CIDT, University of Wolverhampton

Civil Society: Representation, Activism and Influence
A new training programme for organisations promoting change in the forest sector. This training
aims to critically explore the role of civil society actors in promoting good governance; the
challenges and tensions inherent in that role; and practical strategies and skills for influencing
change.
Brighton & Sussex Medical School

Global Health Msc/PGDip/PGCert
Our Global Health will help you understand the
complex determinants of health and ill-health
in a globalised world and their potential solutions in order to help you contribute to the
improvement of health and the achievement of health equity and social justice worldwide.
Graduates from this course will have the skills to work as global health practitioners, policy
makers, consultants or researchers within NGOs, governments and international health and
development agencies. For more information visit the website.
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Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC), University of York

The Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC) at the
University of York has launched a new study programme in Global
Development:
BA in Global Development (with or without a year in industry) - recruiting Autumn 2019 to start
September 2021

We offer a wide range of postgraduate degrees and professional
development courses on critical development issues. Details here.
IDS Training Courses

Contribution Analysis for Impact Evaluation
13 to 17 January 2020
Using Participatory Action Research to Improve Development Practice

20 to 24 January 2020
STEPS Summer School on Pathways to Sustainability 2020

11 to 22 May 2020
International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University

Two MOOCs on offer at ISS:
an ‘Introduction to Economic Theories’ and ‘Local Economic Development’
Events
United Nations University UNU-WIDER

WIDER SEMINAR SERIES
Several talks throughout November & December

London
Eternal Forest film screening
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, 27 November 2019
LG11, Bentham House, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, London, WC1H 0EG

Calle K - Film Screening and Launch

6pm To 8pm, 31 January 2020
Lecture Theatre 106, Roberts Building, Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7JE

The Return of the Policy That Shall Not Be Named: industrial policy
and the IMF in global economic governance
Tuesday 19 November 2019 | 6:30pm - 8pm | Sumeet Valrani Theatre, Centre Building, LSE
Speakers: Reda Cherif, Fuad Hasanov, Robert Wade and Jostein Hauge
Chair: Natalya Naqvi
How Nations Learn

Thursday 21 November 2019 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm | Staff Common Room, Floor 5, Old Building, LSE
Speakers: Arkebe Oqubay (Minister and Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy
Ahmed)
Chair: Professor rober Wade
Anticipation saves lives: How data and innovative financing can help improve the world’s
response to humanitarian crises
Monday 2 December 2019 | 12.30pm-2pm | Venue Shaw Library, Old Building, LSE
Speakers: Mark Lowcock ( Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency
Relief Coordinator)
Chair: Dr Stuart Gordon
School of International Development, University of

East Anglia
One-day Workshop - Epistemological Issues in International Development
Saturday 23 November 2019, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m | Norwich

of Economics, SOAS
Resisting Religious Nationalism from Below: Gender and Caste, Borders and
Boundaries
Professor Navtej Purewal (SOAS University of London) & Professor Virinder Kalra (University of
Warwick)
19 November | 5-7 PM | Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS Main Building

Marginal Development: States, Markets and Violence in Drug-affected Borderlands

Professor Jonathan Goodhand (SOAS University of London), Dr Jasmine Bhatia (SOAS University of
London), Dr Patrick Meehan (SOAS University of London) & Dr Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín (National
University of Colombia)
26 November | 5-7 PM | Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS Main Building
From Microcredit Evangelism to Digital Utopianism: The Unstoppable Rise of the Global
Microcredit Industry
Dr Milford Bateman (Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia) & Dr Richard Kozul-Wright
(UNCTAD)
3 December | 5-7 PM | Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS Main Building

Future generations: a serious democratic deficit
21 November 2019
Advancing the frontiers of transparency and accountability in the extractives sector

28 November 2019
Conferences
EADI
EADI ISS Conference 2020: Solidarity, Peace and Social Justice
29 June - 2 July 2020
Call for papers is open until 15 December 2019
See all the details here.
Publications
Oxford Department of International Development

(ODID)
Sud, Nikita (2019) 'The Unfixed State of Unfixed Land', Development
and Change.
Pailey, Robtel Neajai (2019) 'De-centring the "White Gaze" of Development', Development and
Change.
Scott-Smith, Tom (2019) 'Beyond the boxes: Refugee shelter and the humanitarian politics of
life', American Ethnologist.


London
DPU News Issue 66
On The Development Planning Unit record on Urban Housing: 1971-2018
Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality KNOW is delighted to share in the KNOW issue 2
Digital media
Podcast
DPU Breakfast - Alexandra Panman
Social and Spatial Justice: The Home as a Contact Zone in Israel - Palestine

Lebdioui, Amir (2019) Chile's export diversification since 1960: A
free market miracle or mirage? Development and Change.
Meagher, Kate (2019) Working in chains: African informal workers and global value chains.
Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 8 (1-2). pp. 64-92.
Shadlen, Kenneth C., Sampat, Bhaven N. and Kapczynski, Amy (2019) Patents, trade, and
medicines: past, present, and future. Review of International Political Economy
Gjonça, Arjan and Thornton, Arland (2019) The spread of ideas related to the developmental
idealism model in Albania. Sociology of Development, 5 (3). pp. 265-285.
Naritomi, Joana (2019) Consumers as tax auditors. American Economic Review.
Kirk, Tom (2019) Kenya’s Identity Ecosystem. Caribou Digital.
Working paper:
Madon, Shirin (2019) Can Digital Platforms Help Decentralise Social Assistance Programmes?
Learning from the Aadhaar-enabled Fertiliser Distribution System.
Conflict Research Programme – LSE

Building everyday peace in Kirkuk, Iraq: The potential of locally
focused interventions by Dylan O’Driscoll
Introducing the Transnational Conflict in Africa Dataset by Allard Duursma, Noel Twagiramungu,
Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe and Alex de Waal


of Economics, SOAS
Sara Stevano (who will join SOAS Economics Department in January 2020 as a
Lecturer in the Economics of Africa) wrote 'The randomistas won the 2019
Nobel Prize for Economics. Will they also win the debate on development economics?' on the
SOAS blog.
Ravi Raman, 'Can the Dalit Woman Speak? How ‘Intersectionality’ Helps Advance Postcolonial
Organization Studies', Organization, forthcoming.
Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich

Bennett, B., & Rich, K. M. (2019). Using preferential trade access to
promote global development goals: the case of beef and market access
to Norway from Namibia and Botswana. Agrekon, 1-18.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03031853.2019.1636669
Chancellor, T. C., Priebe, J. S., & Mkenda, P. A. (2019). Crowdsourcing field observations from
smallholder farmers in Tanzania using interactive voice response. Outlooks on Pest Management,
30(3), 104-110. https://doi.org/10.1564/v30_jun_02
Gatto, A. & Busato, B. (2019) Energy vulnerability around the world: The global energy
vulnerability index (GEVI). Journal of Cleaner Production.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118691
Turvey, C. G., Shee, A., & Marr, A. (2019). Addressing fractional dimensionality in the
application of weather index insurance and climate risk financing in agricultural development: A
dynamic triggering approach. Weather, Climate, and Society. https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-
19-0014.1

Podcast
Refugee Tales – Emma Parsons
IDD, University of Birmingham

Cheeseman, N. and J. Fisher. 2019. Authoritarian Africa: Repression,
Resistance, and the Power of Ideas, Oxford University Press, Cary, NC,
USA.
Boydell & Bower

Boydell & Bower offer Development Studies Association members a 25% discount on all African
Studies titles that we publish. The code to use is: BB700

Practical Action Publishing

Development in Latin America
By Maristella Svampa
How does the neoextractivism of natural resources

impact communities in Latin America, and what is its
environmental, ecological, and social impact?
Maristella Svampa explores capitalist development and resistance in her new
book.
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Women’s Economic Empowerment

Edited by Linda Jones and Adam Bramm
‘Clear evidence from statistics and fieldwork on why addressing women’s
economic empowerment is fundamentally important to reducing poverty
and achieving the SDGs.’ Alexandra Miehlbradt, Director, Miehlbradt
Consulting Ltd
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Oxford University Press (OUP)
The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa

Sam Hickey, Tom Lavers, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, and Jeremy Seekings
(editors) 9780198850342
WIDER Studies in Development Economics

• An in-depth analysis of the context of social protection in sub-
Saharan Africa
• Includes original and in-depth case-study research
• Challenges existing accounts of how social protection has
spread in Africa, providing clearer and more credible insights into this
important phenomenon

• Includes a concise overview chapter that sets out the work in context and details the
main comparative findings and implications
• An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence
The Economics of the Middle East: A Comparative Approach

James E. Rauch 9780190879198
"The book provides students from economics, political science, and

public policy with an accessible overview of economic theory, allowing
them to better understand the subsequent chapters which explain why
the Arab region lags behind other middle income countries in
economic and human development. I highly recommend this volume
for graduate survey courses on Middle East Politics and political
economy of development." - Lindsay J. Benstead, Associate Professor
of Political Science, Portland State University
Civil Action and the Dynamics of Violence

Deborah Avant, Marie Berry, Erica Chenoweth, Rachel Epstein, Cullen
Hendrix, Oliver Kaplan, and Timothy Sisk (editors) 9780190056902
"One of the most important recent findings is that civil action can be a
surprisingly effective way for citizens to keep their governments in line
while avoiding violence. If you want to know how citizens can do this-even
in an era of democratic decline -- read this book. It couldn't come at a
better time." - Barbara F. Walter, Professor of Political Science, University
of California, San Diego
Women's Activism, Feminism, and Social Justice

Margaret A. McLaren 9780190947699
"Women's Activism, Feminism and Social Justice theorizes global

feminism(s) as intersectional and interdependent by engaging with both
Western and Indian feminists. It argues for a responsive and responsible
framework of feminist agency that addresses socio-economic
oppression in culturally specific contexts. McLaren's pioneering
explorations on decolonizing feminism promise to inform and enrich
endeavors of transnational solidarities integrating theory and activism."
- Kanchana Mahadevan, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University
of Mumbai

Jobs

Research Associate for Transnational Lived Citizenship Project
Post-doctoral position
Closes: 25 November 2019
IDD University of Birmingham

IDD seeks a Research Associate (Grade 6) with expertise in statistical
research methods and knowledge of geographic information systems
for the research project ‘The Political Economy of Power-Sharing’. A 1-
year research post for recent postgraduates who wish to gain research experience before
beginning their PhD study.
Deadline: 15th November
Natural Resources Institute, University of

Greenwich
NRI is recruiting a Senior Fellow in Economics of Fish in Food
Systems, and a Senior Fellow in Fish and Food Systems (Nutritional
Outcomes), both in collaboration with WorldFish. For more information, please see the
University of Greenwich website (for Economics) and (Nutritional Outcomes).
Deadline: 30th November 2019
Funding opportunities

Scholarship Opportunity - one fully funded joint award scholarship
A jointly awarded/dual PhD program between the University of
Manchester (UK) and the University of Melbourne (Australia), is calling for applicants to conduct
research on strategies of ‘fortification, accommodation and retreat’ in response to sea-level rise
and coastal change in small island states.
Further information about the scholarships is available here.

London
Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality KNOW Small Grants Fund
Deadline: 18th November

Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC)

University of York
Funded interdisciplinary PhD opportunity (UK/EU students)
DEADLINE: 30/03/2020
A four year interdisciplinary PhD opportunity, fully-funded by the Leverhulme Centre for
Anthropocene Biodiversity, is now available. The PhD project will investigate the impact of
human activities on biodiversity change associated with novel export crops such as soy or palm
oil. The successful student will draw on social science and biological concepts and perspectives,
be supervised jointly by leading experts in Politics, Environment and Geography and Biology and
join a dynamic cohort of PhD students based in the new Leverhulme Centre at York.
Further information about the PhD can be found here.
Other news
EADI
EADI has recently published its 2018 Annual Report which also highlights some
plans for the coming year. These include EADI's new Blog, “Debating
Development Research”, which features cutting edge articles written by EADI
members. The blog will introduce the topics of the next EADI General Conference to be held in
The Hague from 29 June to 02 July 2020. The call for papers is open until 15 December. EADI
also offers a webinar series, which offers participants the opportunity to engage with critical
thinkers and innovative new research findings.
Your chance to make an impact in Research Communications

Interested in Research Communications? The European Association of Development Research and
Training Institutes (of which DPP is a member) is looking for academic members for its newly
formed Research Communications working group. Read more…
EADI student membership is now free to all students.

See here for all the details and how to become an EADI member.

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No 35: November 2019

DSA2020 Conference: New Leadership for Global Challenges

Call for Nominations - DSA Dissertation Prize 2020

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New DSA Fund - PGR & ECR (PhD and Masters)

Announcement for Global South Members

Oyinlola Ogunpaimo and Felix Danso, DSA Africa Study Group

Robtel Pailey - DSA2019 Keynote paper - Open access

‘Meeting the Challenges’ workshop series

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Seeking new book proposals for DSA-OUP series

DSA Study Group News

Gender, Policy & Practice Study Group

DSA Premium Members

● CIDT, University of Wolverhampton

● Department of Development Studies and the Department of Economics, SOAS

● Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London

● Development Policy and Practice, DPP, Open University

● Global Development Academy, University of Edinburgh

● IDS, University of Sussex

● International Development Department, University of Birmingham

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● International Development Institute, King's College London

● Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford

● GDI, University of Manchester

● School of International Development, University of East Anglia (UEA)

● The Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID)

● Department of International Development, London School of Economics (LSE)

● Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich

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Premium member news

Global Development Institute (GDI)

How the co-production of knowledge can help urban transformation

New research focussing on spatial planning strategies

GDI academics cited widely in major reports

GDI Blog: Foregone Digital Dividends

Oxford Department of International Development

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Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College

The competition, #ChangeOurPicture, is open to anyone who lives in an informal settlement in

DPU staff participate at the RC21 conference in Delhi

‘Map-making by City-makers’: DPU research nominated for UCL’s #MadeAtUCL initiative

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Department of International Development,

Update from our Head of Department, Professor Ken Shadlen

One Year Anniversary for the CRP Blog

Conflict Research Programme – LSE

Recycling as bricolage: Training the Police Nationale Congolaise by Michel Thill

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Department of Development Studies and the Department

CIDT, University of Wolverhampton

IDS, University of Sussex

DFID funds programme on Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture

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DPP, The Open University

Supporting community organisations’ agroecological innovation for sustainable, socially

We must incorporate ‘gerontechnology’ into urban development policy - Hannah R. Marston

Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich

Institutional member News

Humanitarian Academy for Development, HAD

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