EADI, the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes, is the leading European network in the field of Development Studies: With more than 100 institutional members in more than 25 countries we organise activities and provide platforms for international networking and exchange with a strong interdisciplinary focus. #Development #DevelopmentStudies #Sustainability
"Indigenous communities have played a significant role in tourism ventures. However, this “role” does not necessarily imply that they have control over these ventures, that their values guide them, or even that they benefit from them."
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https://www.developmentresearch.eu/?p=2514
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"Decolonising Development Studies should not be understood as a call for inclusion alone. It is not simply about adding marginalised perspectives to an otherwise unchanged field. Rather, it is about transforming the field’s core assumptions and confronting the power relations that underpin them."
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https://www.developmentresearch.eu/?p=2509
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The authors of our latest blog argue that the just transition in the South envisioned by COP30 is jeopardised "if the new green economy is governed in the same top-down way as the old one"
https://www.developmentresearch.eu/?p=2499
📽️If you haven't had the chance to attend Tuesday's online roundtable about narratives of development and sustainability, you can rewatch it now!
https://youtu.be/z5ysm9LrDOQ?si=V8jOLJylbIvYAwxK
🔎 Read our very first newsletter of the year! Featuring UNRISD's Feminist Foreign and Development Policies and more news from us and our community
https://mailchi.mp/eadi/nl1january26
"If we want to move the needle on stagnating poverty rates, we need anti-poverty policies that break rather than reinforce the cycle of blame and shame. For this, we need empathy."
Our first blog of the year provides a lot of scientific evidence for trust-based social protection measures
https://www.developmentresearch.eu/?p=2492
"I consider my story as reflecting a scholarly transition from an empirical, positivist and Eurocentric framework to an advocacy for alternative knowledges, pluriversality, and decoloniality"
This text wraps up our decolonising stories project:
https://www.developmentresearch.eu/?p=2480
"The implications of the dissertations findings cannot be overstated. They suggest nothing less than radically rethinking how societies are organised ecologically, politically, economically, and technologically.
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🔎 Our latest blog explores how community forestry can achieve its environmental aims even in very unfavourable conditions.
🤔 Imagine what could happen if the conditions were stable and they had institutional support!
✅ This is a story of hope!
https://www.developmentresearch.eu/?p=2468
EADI eNewsletter #12/1 | The Uncertain Future of Development Cooperation & More
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Our latest blog posts suggests three ideal types for possible future development cooperation - while "an ideal type does not aim to reflect reality, but rather to highlight a referential model for analysis."
https://www.developmentresearch.eu/?p=2409
Clover in South Africa: where workers’ rights met Palestine solidarity: When dairy workers made common cause with Palestine solidarity activists, the result was radical love in the public square https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/clover-in-south-africa-where-workers-rights-met-palestine-solidarity/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS
"While engagement with sustainability and the environment may seem like a neutral way to describe relationships between humans and nature, the roots of sustainable development are in reality deeply shaped by the legacies of colonisation and coloniality."
In our latest blog @Lylamehta delves into the colonial history of environmental protection, suggests pathways towards decolonising Development Studies and calls out remaining challenges.
https://www.developmentresearch.eu/?p=2402
"Governments, parliaments, and non-state actors — who support what until recently was a broad global consensus on sustainable development need to find ways to counter the destructive influence of the Trump administration on established forums such as the G7 and G20". The authors of our latest blog argue that the G7 Development Ministers’ Chair’s Summary sounds like "the G7 intends to reshape how development cooperation is organised, coordinated and justified"
https://www.developmentresearch.eu/?p=2398
"Although the short-term impacts of US policy changes are severe, a long-term vision for a shared, progressive future remains essential."
Our latest blog outlines 4 possible pathways towards more constructive global development cooperation:
Our latest blog post argues thatsocial science fiction can be more than "an opportunity to cultivate empathy, but also as a robust methodological tool for development research."
https://www.developmentresearch.eu/?p=2387
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