LSE – June 2025
Event
What’s cooking? The future of food on the African continent
Saturday 21 June 2025 2.00pm to 3.00pm | In-person and online, MAR | Registration required
Food is family, food is fuel, nourishment, cultural and fundamental. Connections made through food are an effective way to change minds, shift narratives, and amend policies to guard against food deprivation seen in many parts of Africa today. As explored in Professor David Luke’s new book How Africa Eats, this diverse panel of tastemakers will explore the history of African cuisine; production and distribution, as well as considering the factors which may disrupt these; food security, food trade, and climate risks.
Publications
- Klingler-Vidra, Robyn, Chalmers, Adam William and Wade, Robert H. (2025) Who’s governing the market? Bringing the individual back into the study of the developmental state. World Development
- Lewis, David (2025) Towards a ‘Development Humanities’: widening the multi-disciplinary field of development studies. Oxford Development Studies
- Meagher, Kate (2025) Decolonizing development studies: rejecting or repurposing the master’s tools? The European Journal of Development Research
- Velez-Torres, Irene and Chiavaroli, Chiara (2025) Land, gender and labour in antinarcotic policies: voluntary substitution of illegalized coca crops and gender inequalities in rural Colombia. Journal of Peasant Studies.
- Boone, Catherine, Crespin-Boucaud, Juliette and Kyung Kim, Eun (2025) Sectoral interests and regional bloc voting in African countries. Studies in Comparative International Development.
News
- Professor Jean-Paul Faguet argues that we should expect identity politics to get even more intense and dangerous. He writes for a debate series by Institute of Arts & Ideas which askes: “Is the dominance of identity politics over?”.
- Professor Elliott Green responds to the recent Guardian article on negative effect of fishmeal exports on local livelihoods in Senegal, and argues that the situation is complex. Read the letter here.
- Dr Tine Hanrieder has now taken over the role of Doctoral Programme Director (DPD) in ID. This role oversees Ph.D. students and advises on integrating Ph.D. research into departmental strategy and liaising with the LSE administration. Tine will work closely with Monika K who administrates the programme. Please contact Tine or Monika on any aspects of PhDs from now on.
- A massive congratulations to Dr Greta Seibel, Dr BooKang Seol and Dr Jennifer Melvin for being awarded an LSESU Teaching Award in recognition of their very special contribution to teaching at LSE.
Blog
Professor David Lewis makes a case for a new field of Development Humanities (DH): the idea of widening the scope of development studies beyond just economics and the other social sciences to engage more with the arts and humanities. He argues that building new interdisciplinary bridges can be useful for research, teaching and practice. Read his article for DSA here.