Our Aims and Objectives
We are the UK association for all those who research, study and teach global development issues
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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.
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
By Dr Ilias Alami and Prof Adam D. Dixon
Equity, Evaluation, and International Cooperation
In Pursuit of Proximate Peers in an African City
By Gabriella Y. Carolini
Developmentalism
The Normative and Transformative within Capitalism
By Graham Harrison
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
The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus
By Ben Radley.
Three open access chapters. Full details.
Politics and the Urban Frontier
Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa
By Tom Goodfellow
Philanthropy and the Development of Modern India
In the Name of Nation
By Arun Kumar
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
Reconfiguring South-South Cooperation for Equitable Urban Development
By Gabriella Y. Carolini
This is available here.
The Prosperity Paradox
Fewer and More Vulnerable Farm Workers by Philip Martin.
This is available here.
Susceptibility in Development
Micropolitics of Local Development in India and Indonesia by Tanya Jakimow.
This is available here.
Going Nowhere Fast
Mobile Inequality in the Age of Translocality by Sabina Lawreniuk and Laurie Parsons
This is available here.
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
Deepened Financial Integration and Changing Vulnerabilities of the Global South by Yilmaz Akyüz
This is available here.
Taken for a Ride
Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis by Matteo Rizzo
This is available here.
Other publications
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
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.