25 February 2025
DID News February
Latest updates from the Department of International Development
Welcome to this month's roundup of news, events, and publications from DID.
Recent publications
Depleted by Debt: 'Green' Microfinance, Over-Indebtedness, and Social Reproduction in Climate-Vulnerable Cambodia Guermond, V., Brickell, K., Natarajan, N., Parsons, L., Faye, G., Iskander, D., Ly Vouch, L., Michiels, S., Picchioni, F. & Green, N., 6 Feb 2025, In: Antipode: a radical journal of geography. 57, 2, p. 471-493
No Development (Economics or Studies) Without Decolonisation Dutt, D., 1 Feb 2025, In: European Journal of Development Research. 103186.
Jobs
Lecturer in Gender and Social Development Closing date: 09 March 2025.
Upcoming Events
Book Talk on "The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India" with Alpa Shah 12 March 2025
Book Talk on “Disrupted Development in the Congo” with Ben Radley 19 March 2025
Recent Events
Cities as Nodes of Ideas: The Spread of Neoliberal Cultures in the Arab World 13 February 2025
Book Talk: "Spectre of State Capitalism" with Dr Ilias Alami 12 February 2025
Blogs & Media
What Challenges for Global Development Research are Posed by a More Decolonial Approach? – Debating Development Research
by Laura Camfield, 4 February 2025
US Economic Decline Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
An interview in Jacobin with Sean Starrs 21 February 2025
Podcasts & Videos
DeepSeek, TikTok, Temu: How China is taking the lead in tech - BBC World Service featuring an interview with Dr Yundan Gong
WORLD: we got this:
S6E6 A deep dive into DeepSeek with Dr Sean Starrs and Dr Juan Grigera
Hierarchies of Development:
S3E4 Black radical politics and Pan-Africanism
S3E3 The Tricontinental and the arts
News
Award nomination for gender attitudes research in China19 February 2025