IDS researchers are out in force this year presenting at this years Development Studies Association (DSA) conference – the biggest of its kind in Europe – and which takes place at SOAS, London from the 26 to 28 June. The theme of the conference this year is Social justice and development in a polarising world: Rights and representation; redistribution and restoration; reproduction and production.
Underpinning all global development discourses, practice and policy – sometimes explicitly, often implicitly – is the issue of social justice. Whether framed within formal discourses of:
- human rights, representation or redistribution;
- intended or unintended outcome of development policy and interventions;
- a contested idea around which debates on equality, equity, fairness and responsibility are framed and debated
DSA2024 provides an opportunity for development practitioners to reflect on issues, structures and processes of power, justice and equity within global development and demand new ways of thinking about, and perhaps even re-setting, thinking and practice around social justice and development.
IDS researchers at DSA2024
Over twenty IDS researchers are presenting this year on a wide variety of panels and roundtables. They will be presenting cutting-edge research covering topics such as gender justice; governance and food security; the politics of land and social protection – all topics that IDS and our partners has led the field in.
Below is a full list of the sessions IDS is involved in.
Wednesday 26 June
Popular contestations and mobilization in times of democratic backsliding
Niranjan Nampoothiri, Marjoke Oosterom and Patta Scott-Villiers
Thursday 27 June
Gender justice in troubled times
Harshita Kumari
Politics of land and dispossession in the global South
Lyla Mehta
Seeking gender justice and rights amidst backlash: Challenges and responses by women’s struggles
Samreen Mushtaq, Deepta Chopra, Priya Raghavan, and Sohela Nazneen
Politics, governance and food security across the global North-South divide
Jody Harris and Nick Nisbett
Cash transfers and the promise of social justice?
Kate Pruce
Friday 28 June
Non-state social welfare and public goods provision: Development, inequality, and redistribution beyond the state
Max Gallien, Giulia Mascagni and Christopher Ward, PhD
Basic income and socioecological transformations
Giel Ton
Feminist foreign policy vs. development: which way to social and gender justice?
Sohela Nazneen
Scratching beyond the surface: examining the intersectionality between social protection, gender vulnerabilities, and climate resilience
Lars Otto Naess and Jeremy Lind
How to attend
The #DSA2024 conference takes place from the 26 to 28 June and will be organised and hosted by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
For details on how to attend, click here.
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