ODID Oxford September 2025 digest
Expert Comment: In an Expert Comment piece for the University of Oxford, Jörg Friedrichs explores how debates over multiculturalism in Britain and Europe reveal that cultural diversity and integration must go hand in hand.
New book series on Women Interpreting Islamic Law: Edinburgh University Press has launched a new book series, co-edited by Professor Masooda Bano, that will provide a home for new scholarship on women’s Islamic-juristic authority from the prophet’s era until today. Find out more
The Backstage of Democracy by Amogh Dhar Sharma longlisted for prize: The Backstage of Democracy: India’s Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them, by Amogh Dhar Sharma (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow), has been longlisted for The New India Foundation’s 2025 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize. Find out more about the prize and longlist.
MSc student prize winners for 2025 announced! ODID are delighted to announce this year’s prize winners for the master’s courses Economics for Development, Global Governance and Diplomacy, Migration Studies, and Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. Find out more
UN DESA Voice features Sabina Alkire: Sabina Alkire, Director of OPHI, features in the latest edition of UN DESA voice and explains why looking at multiple intersecting factors like health, education, nutrition & housing makes a difference in efforts to end poverty. Read more
Publications
- Ruben Andersson (2025) ‘Rethinking the border in times of crisis’. In Thomas M Wilson (ed.) Border Studies: A multidisciplinary approach, Edward Elgar.
- Corneliu Bjola and Raluca Csernatoni (2025) ‘Tech Diplomacy and the Digital International Order: The Case of the EU–U.S. Trade and Technology Council’, Global Policy, doi: 10.1111/1758-5899.70041.
- Lauren Landau, Noora Lori and Anne McNevin (2025) ‘Zombies, Miracles, and Memory: Towards a Research Agenda on Mobility, Temporality, and Political Possibility’, Geopolitics, doi: 10.1080/14650045.2025.2535671.
- Amir Lebdioui and Thea Riofrancos (2025) Critical Minerals & Resource Nationalism 2.0: Why the Policy is more Critical than the Mineral, Working Paper 92, TIDE Centre, University of Oxford.
- Nikita Sud (2025) ‘Authority as a Spatial Hook for Renewables Capital: Frontierization, Zoning and Land Making in Asian Coal Economies’, Development and Change, doi: 10.1111/dech.70012
- Karolin Tuncel (2025) “It’s not about sex, it’s about Fıtrat”. Exploring Turkey’s politics of gender through a religious concept. In Viola Thimm and Ferdiansyah Thajib (eds) Embracing Faith and Desire, Routledge.
- Young Lives (2025) Beyond Age 5: Tracking Progress and Challenges in Hunger, Nutrition and Health (SDGs 2 & 3), Interactive Report.