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

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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

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Study Groups

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

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Publications

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Decolonising Development

The initiatives we are undertaking that work towards decolonising development studies

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Membership Directory

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DPU, UCL September 2024

DPU Working Paper – No. 216: Exploring Interlinkages – Impact of Energy Poverty on Students in Punjab, Pakistan

Emerging African towns are critical urban planning priorities: A research agenda for the sub-continent

The colonial face of ‘housing’ refugees: The construction of the racialised subject within a necropolitical infrastructure.

DPU colleagues have been commended for their paper in the Planning Perspectives Prize by the International Planning History Society. Their paper ‘The biogeopolitics of cities: a critical enquiry across Jerusalem, Phnom Penh, Toronto’ has been recognised for its quality and impactful insights in urban planning scholarship. Read the paper: https://lnkd.in/ev765yv5

The struggle for Jerusalem: Arena of nationalist conflict or crucible of cosmopolitan co-existence?

Jerusalem: from a ‘divided’ to a ‘contested’ city—and next to a neo-apartheid city?

Jerusalem’s Road 1: An inner city frontier?