The Department seeks to appoint a Senior Lecturer in International Development. The successful applicant will be an outstanding social scientist whose research is interdisciplinary with a focus on racial, economic and social justice, including the question of reparations. We particularly welcome critical scholarship which examines the structural inequities, intersectionalities and path dependencies of the modern social and economic order. Closes 5 December.

Standing in the way of rigor? Economics’ meeting with the decolonization agenda. Ingrid Harvold Kvangravena and Surbhi Kesar’s new paper on decolonizing economics looks at the results of surveying 498 economists to evaluate possibilities and challenges associated with efforts to decolonize economics.

Latin America Bureau and King’s College London are proud to announce the debut work from the WRV collective, ‘Women Resisting Violence: Voices and Experiences from Latin America.’ The book is available to purchase from Practical Action Publishing.

KCL’s new Development Studies MA will encourage students to reflect directly on how questions of social justice should be connected to the theory and practice of development, and in relation to race, class, gender and other identities. This concept of social justice will be used to investigate the legitimacy of power relations that shape social, political, and economic inequalities between different regions, states, groups and individuals. Students will study the politics of development itself, and be empowered to find and advance alternative ways of using development practice to create a better and more just world. Find out more.