Our Aims and Objectives

We are the UK association for all those who research, study and teach global development issues

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What is Development Studies

What is development studies and decolonising development.

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Our Members

We have around 1,000 members, made up of individuals and around 40 institutions

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Governance

Find out about our constitution, how we are run and meet our Council

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People

Meet our Council members and other staff who support the running of DSA

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About

The DSA Conference is an annual event which brings together the development studies community

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DSA2025

Our conference this year is themed "Navigating crisis: dangers and opportunities in development"

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Past Conferences

Find out about our previous conferences

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Study Groups

Our Study Groups offer a chance to connect with others who share your areas of interest

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Students and ECRs

Students and early career researchers are an important part of our community

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Publications

Our book series with OUP and our relationship with other publishers

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Decolonising Development

The initiatives we are undertaking that work towards decolonising development studies

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Membership Directory

Find out who our members are, where they are based and the issues they work on

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Publications

Advancing development studies as a field of scholarship

 

About our publications

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.

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Nick Wolterman from Bloomsbury Publishing talks to delegates at DSA2024 at SOAS

DSA-OUP book series

Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies

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]

 

What does it take to be a DSA-OUP book author?

Hear the perspectives from authors from the book series:

  • Ben Radley: Author of Disrupted Development, The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus
  • Naomi Hossain: Author of the Aid Lab: Understanding Bangladesh’s Unexpected Success
  • Arun Kumar: Author of Philanthropy and the Development of Modern India: In the Name of Nation
  • Daniel Agbiboa: Author of They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria
 

Books in the series

The Spectre of State Capitalism
The Spectre of State Capitalism

By Dr Ilias Alami and Prof Adam D. Dixon

Available on the OUP website. 

Equity, Evaluation, and International Cooperation
Equity, Evaluation, and International Cooperation

In Pursuit of Proximate Peers in an African City

By Gabriella Y. Carolini

Available on the OUP website. 

Developmentalism
Developmentalism

The Normative and Transformative within Capitalism

By Graham Harrison

Available on the OUP website

Business of the State
Business of the State

Why State Ownership Matters for Resource Governance

By Jewellord T. Nem Singh

Available on the OUP website.

Disrupted Development in the Congo
Disrupted Development in the Congo

The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus

By Ben Radley.

Three open access chapters. Full details.

Politics and the Urban Frontier
Politics and the Urban Frontier

Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa

By Tom Goodfellow

Available on the OUP website.

The Many Faces of Socioeconomic Change
The Many Faces of Socioeconomic Change

By John Toye

Available on the OUP website.

Philanthropy and the Development of Modern India
Philanthropy and the Development of Modern India

In the Name of Nation

By Arun Kumar

Available on the OUP website

They Eat Our Sweat
They Eat Our Sweat

Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria

By Daniel Agbiboa

This is now available here.

The Power of Proximate Peers
The Power of Proximate Peers

Reconfiguring South-South Cooperation for Equitable Urban Development

By Gabriella Y. Carolini

This is available here.

The Prosperity Paradox
The Prosperity Paradox

Fewer and More Vulnerable Farm Workers by Philip Martin.

This is available here.

Susceptibility in Development
Susceptibility in Development

Micropolitics of Local Development in India and Indonesia by Tanya Jakimow.

This is available here.

Going Nowhere Fast
Going Nowhere Fast

Mobile Inequality in the Age of Translocality by Sabina Lawreniuk and Laurie Parsons

This is available here.

Inclusive Dualism
Inclusive Dualism

Labour-intensive Development, Decent Work, and Surplus Labour in Southern Africa by Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings

This is available here.

Playing with Fire
Playing with Fire

Deepened Financial Integration and Changing Vulnerabilities of the Global South by Yilmaz Akyüz

This is available here.

Taken for a Ride
Taken for a Ride

Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis by Matteo Rizzo

This is available here.

The Aid Lab
The Aid Lab

Understanding Bangladesh’s Unexpected Success by Naomi Hossain

This is available here.

Other publications

Special Issues

Briefing Papers

 

Other publishers

We are pleased to have the long-standing support of Practical Action Publishing, the specialist publishing arm of global change-making organisation Practical Action. To find out more about their titles visit their website.