Our Aims and Objectives
We are the UK association for all those who research, study and teach global development issues
Find Out MoreAdvancing development studies as a field of scholarship
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.
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]
Hear the perspectives from authors from the book series:
By Dr Ilias Alami and Prof Adam D. Dixon
In Pursuit of Proximate Peers in an African City
By Gabriella Y. Carolini
The Normative and Transformative within Capitalism
By Graham Harrison
Why State Ownership Matters for Resource Governance
By Jewellord T. Nem Singh
Available on the OUP website.
The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus
By Ben Radley.
Three open access chapters. Full details.
Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa
By Tom Goodfellow
In the Name of Nation
By Arun Kumar
Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria
By Daniel Agbiboa
This is now available here.
Reconfiguring South-South Cooperation for Equitable Urban Development
By Gabriella Y. Carolini
This is available here.
Fewer and More Vulnerable Farm Workers by Philip Martin.
This is available here.
Micropolitics of Local Development in India and Indonesia by Tanya Jakimow.
This is available here.
Mobile Inequality in the Age of Translocality by Sabina Lawreniuk and Laurie Parsons
This is available here.
Labour-intensive Development, Decent Work, and Surplus Labour in Southern Africa by Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings
This is available here.
Deepened Financial Integration and Changing Vulnerabilities of the Global South by Yilmaz Akyüz
This is available here.
Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis by Matteo Rizzo
This is available here.
Special Issues
Briefing Papers
DSA has negotiated a member discount with Routledge Publishers
Contact us at [email protected] to get your discount code