Before many of us leave for a short summer break, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all participants of the EADI/ISS #Solidarity2021 conference earlier this month for the many interesting perspectives and engaged discussions! It was great for us to see how well the online format worked, and how it attracted so much active engagement from researchers from the Global South. To offer a glimpse on some of the aspects dicussed, we have three new blogposts in the Solidarity2021 series which is going to be continued. And if you didn't have the chance to watch our public pre-conference Dudley Seers Lecture, you can now watch it online. And, apart from reading recommendations from our member community, we've got quite a few job opportunities further below.
#Solidarity2021 Blog Series
Questioning Development: What lies ahead
Development Studies requires “an epistemological and ontological change” write Elisabetta Basile and Isa Baud in the introduction to the recent EADI volume “Building Development Studies for a New Millennium”. The planned sequel of the book will take this analysis one step further and explore viable ways to build on both the critique of development as such, as well as the growing demand to decolonize knowledge production. The plenary session on “Questioning Development – Towards Solidarity, Decoloniality, Conviviality” hosted a discussion by four contributors to the book, who were asked to discuss their own practices towards challenging the classical “development” paradigm, and possible ways forward. Read the post
For the redistribution of water, framing matters!
In the face of increasing pressure on global water resources, a degree of inventiveness in finding just and sustainable ways to ensure access to water is required. The redistribution of water is one possible way in which this could be done. But ongoing research on elite responses to a recent water scarcity crisis in South Africa shows that the redistribution of water resources will not go uncontested by water elites and that existing narratives on the sharing of water are not creating the extent of solidarity needed. We need to frame this action differently, writes Lize Swartz. Read the post
Changing research practices in times of Covid – Insights from an international fishbowl
The closing plenary of the 2021 EADI ISS conference opened the floor to all participants, encouraging them to reflect on their changing research practices in times of Covid through a virtual fishbowl format. How has the pandemic changed our research practice? How do losses and gains balance out? What are the specific challenges faced by researchers in the Global South? Here is what our participants thought: Read the post
Dudley Seers Lecture Now Available to Watch Online
In this public pre-conference lecture, Rohini Pande from Yale University explored how power structures - within households, communities, and countries – are determined by informal and formal institutions and analyses, how inequality of power and economic inequality interact within these institutions.Since 2008, the Dudley Seers Lecture has been an inherent part of the EADI General Conferences. Watch the lecture
New Master's Programme EADI/IAC Accredited
We are happy to announce that the Sustainable Development Management M.A. Programme at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, one of our German premium members, is now officially EADI/IAC accredited! The accreditation commission praised in particular the programme’s integration of theory and practice: " The combination of deep theoretical knowledge and hands-on skills can only be found here in Kleve” said head of the programme Dr. Oliver Serfling. Read more
Featured EADI Member: CeSPI, Italy
The "Centro Studie die Politica Internazionale (CeSPI)" in Rome is an independent and non-profit Think Tank performing research and policy-oriented analysis studies, providing advice, evaluations and training on many subjects relevant to international relations. It has published three new papers with a focus on the Middle East:
Climate, biodiversity, inequalities… how to steer the SDGs back on track: This paper by the Agence Française de Développement puts forward several exploratory avenues to steer the SDGs back on track: restore greater legitimacy and readability to the environmental goals by defining indicators that integrate the commitments made at COP21 and, eventually, those that should be made to protect biodiversity; identify the synergies and tensions between the different goals so that better trade-offs can be made among priorities; build and model a sustainable development pathway for each country to track the effective progress and estimate the cost of financing these improved pathways. Read more
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