GDI July 2025 digest
Event:
Settler Colonial Urbanism(s) and Infrastructural Changes in Palestine at 2pm, Monday, 15th September. Find out more and register
Publications:
Mindy Park, Chris Foster and Richard Heeks published “Conceptualising urban informality in the platform economy: regulation, legitimisation, value extraction and collective agency” in International Development Planning Review
Sophie van Huellen has an article upcoming in the Journal of Development Studies – ‘Skills Training, Corruption and Organisational Capabilities: An Analysis of Bangladesh’s Garment Industry’, co-authored with Mushtaq Khan and Sumaiya Kabir.
Forthcoming publications by Tanja Bastia:
- Diverse transnational care: ageing and migration in Bolivia, Policy Press, will be published 22nd July and is available for pre-order, with Claudia Calsina
- ‘Neglected Intersections: A view from the South’, Comparative Migration Studies, with Lorena Izaguirre, Matthew Walsham, Pedro Pablo Cortés, as part of cluster on Neglected Intersections in South-South, regional migrations, https://www.springeropen.com/collections/NISSRM
- ‘A Double Marginalization in Migration, Gender, and Sexuality in South-South Regional Migrations’, in Yurdakul, Beaman, Mügge, Scuzzarello, Sunanta (eds), Oxford Handbook on Intersectional Approaches to Migration, Gender, and Sexuality, with Pedro Pablo Cortés Villarreal
- ‘Unequal Knowledge Production and Circulation in Migration Studies: Feminist Perspectives’in Dahinden and Potts(eds) Reflexivities in Migration Studies: Pitfalls and Alternatives, Springer, with Elenore Kofman
Adam Aboobaker published ‘Cyclical patterns of employment, wage inequality and the functional distribution of income’ in Political Economy Quarterly
Recent blogs:
- Reflections on building resilience in the development sector
- Globalisation in Flux: What does the Transformation of Value Chains mean for the Governance of Decent Work? – by Louisa Hann
- New environments and fresh perspectives: Reflections from a visiting PGR – by Valquiria Almeida
- Convergence, Divergence, Flatlining or Plateau: What has happened to inequality between and within countries over the last decade? – by Saumik Paul and Andy Sumner