The DSA aims to advance development studies as a field of scholarship, and to support members in sharing their work with new audiences. Publications include a book series, special issues from DSA or study group sponsored activities, DSA blogs and briefing papers.

The contemporary world is characterised by massive wealth alongside widespread poverty, inequality, and environmental destruction – all bound up through class, race and gender dynamics of inequality and oppression.

Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies is the official DSA book series published in collaboration with Oxford University Press and was established to contribute to critical thinking about local, national and global processes of structural transformation. The series publishes cutting-edge monographs that promote critical development studies as an interdisciplinary and applied field, and shape the theory, practice, and teaching of international development for a new generation of scholars, students, and practitioners.

The current editors are Andrew Fischer (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague), Naomi Hossain (American University), Briony Jones (University of Warwick), Alfredo Saad Filho (King’s College London), Benjamin Selwyn (University of Sussex) and Fiona Tregenna (University of Johannesburg). Adam Swallow is Commissioning Editor for the series at the OUP.  “We are always excited to see new proposals and hear about new ideas, so if you are involved in research that you think might be of interest do let us know. The series editors are really helpful with advice in developing book proposals and commenting and I’m keen to see the series continue to develop and grow over the coming months and years.”

As the series evolves, we wish to publish a diverse and inclusive range of authors whose work engages in critical, multidisciplinary, decolonial, and methodologically plural development studies. If you have an idea for a book proposal, contact the OUP Commissioning Editor, Adam Swallow: [email protected]

• Find out more about how to make a proposal for the DSA-OUP book series

Special Issues

• ‘North-South Partnerships and the Politics of Development Knowledge’, a Commentary Section of European Journal of Development Research, June 2020
• This is a joint output from the 2018/9 North-South interdisciplinary research workshop series and a DSA conference panel (2019).

Briefing Papers

• Towards more equitable interdisciplinary development research

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