SOAS Development for Transformation Centre

SOAS DevTraC (SOAS Development for Transformation Centre) is located in the Department of Development Studies.

[SOAS Development for Transformation Centre @soasdevtrac]

📢 We are retiring our DevTraC account!
Thank you all for your support! For the updates on SOAS development events, publications, and outputs, please follow us on:
🔹 @SOASDevelopment
🔹 @SOASEconomics
See you there!

[SOAS Development Studies @SOASDevelopment]

🚨Call for applications! 🚨

Young scholars, don’t miss the #INET-#YSI workshop at organised by @SOAS students:

"Big Problems, New Solutions: Reimagining Economic Policy"

With stellar line-up of experts:
🔹 @Jayati1609 (UMass Amherst)
🔹 Boitumelo Molete(Trade Unionist, South Africa)
🔹 @JoseA_Ocampo (Columbia University)
🔹 @DanielaGabor (SOAS Development Studies Department)
🔹 Luiz Vieira (Bretton Woods Project)

🗓️ Registration deadline: 22 September 2024

📲 Scan the QR code for details!

[SOAS Development Studies @SOASDevelopment]

📌 ‘New and additional’: why funding climate finance from aid budgets is a problem. Mike Jennings @mikejennings101 argues that donors have failed to provide the promised new and additional funding, which risks undermining action on climate and poverty.

Read the full blog here⬇️
https://t.co/7TeUjlVRvJ

#ClimateFinance #PovertyAction #ClimateChange #DevelopmentStudies #AidFunding #GlobalDevelopment #SustainableFuture #SOAS

[SOAS Development Studies @SOASDevelopment]

📢 Exciting News! Sara Stevano's latest publication on the devaluation of essential work is now available! Don’t miss out on this excellent contribution to the ongoing discussion.
Check it out⤵️
@SOASEconomics @SOAS #socialreproduction @ilo

[SOAS Development Studies @SOASDevelopment]

Interested in the future of energy in #Africa? Check out this insightful blog!
It explores energy transition from a developmental and production-oriented perspective.
#energytranstion #development #GreenEnergy

[SOAS Development Studies @SOASDevelopment]

Read this fantastic article featuring our colleague @TobiasFranz_ !

⬇️@SOAS @SOASEconomics @tommytanner @nomhossain @YannisDafermos

[SOAS Development Studies @SOASDevelopment]

📌 Check out Peter Mollinga and Andrea Rizzi’s recent research paper “Blooming activism in a drying land: Water justice movements along river Tigris in Iraq”

Read full paper here⬇️ https://t.co/NqI2d92KXX

#WaterJustice #Water #GrassrootsMovements #Iraq #Kurdistan

[SOAS Development Studies @SOASDevelopment]

Check out excellent articles on the new special issue:

“Social Reproduction of Agrarian Change: Feminist Political Economy and Rural Transformations in the Global South”

Read all articles here⬇️
@SOAS @estariade @nomhossain @hannahbargawi @FeministOnMarx @SaraStevano @DzodziTsikata

[SOAS Development Studies @SOASDevelopment]

🎥Listen to our colleague @nomhossain expressing concerns regarding the reprisal attacks in the wake of the PM’s resignation:

Bangladesh “cannot afford” to repeat authoritarian rule!
@SOAS @SOAS_SAI @estariade @lhammondsoas @FeministOnMarx @sndeall @PoMoGandhi @tommytanner

[SOAS Development for Transformation Centre @soasdevtrac]

"Pick your weapon: Reflections on the radical black woman and the black liberation struggle"

Excellent blog by @SOAS Student @megaamorgan, selected as one of the top entries in the Feminist Political Economy of Development course👉https://t.co/kaFfUBspQh
Read⬇️
@DzodziTsikata

[SOAS Development Studies @SOASDevelopment]

Megan Morgan asks: "How will I embody the Black radical woman? What weapon will I pick up to join the ongoing armed resistance? Will it be the pen or will I exercise the power of the tongue?" 1/

Read more: https://t.co/Dn3ChnqluJ
@Tilley101
@FeministOnMarx
@soasdevtrac
@SOAS

[Naomi Hossain @nomhossain]

Bangladesh is seeing the deadliest crackdown by the government against protesters in the country. Sign the petition demanding the government of Bangladesh to end this repression now: https://t.co/TRlj0c72Rm https://t.co/TRlj0c72Rm

[SOAS Development for Transformation Centre @soasdevtrac]

ICYMI - Watch @SOASDevelopment's @nomhossain sharing her perspective on 🇧🇩's ongoing crisis, with the @BBCNews !
🎥 link⬇️

[SOAS Press Office @SOASpress]

Bangladesh: student protests in the capital Dhaka and elsewhere turned deadly against demonstrators - Naomi Hossain speaks to the @BBCNews

@nomhossain @SOASDevelopment
https://t.co/5unVMgc3HI

[SOAS Development Studies @SOASDevelopment]

Read @valenfrassa_'s feminist political economy analysis of 'Poor Things': "revolutionary in its fearless portrayal of unapologetic feminine sexual desire" even if it fails to challenge social norms, "personally and intellectually liberating" https://t.co/11OLsvVA1T

[Development Studies Association @devcomms]

📣 @SOASDevelopment & @SOASEconomics conceived the theme for #DSA2024 and within that overall theme, the conference had three strands, incl. reproduction and production – highlighted by @Jimiadesina

Read more here ⤵️
https://t.co/hpIabcPX6S

[SOAS Economics @SOASEconomics]

📌 @SOAS Economist Dr Miguel Niño-Zarazúa explores the complex effects of clientelism on economic development, State capacity, and governance in the context of rising populism and autocracies.

Read the blog ⬇️
https://t.co/mcQbJeAVeD

[Phil Clark @philclark79]

Call for Kigali workshop papers - "Intergenerational Justice in Africa" - hosted by @UR_CASS @SOASPolitics & funded by @LeverhulmeTrust. 3 themes: conflict, care & climate. Hybrid workshop, 5-6 Sept 2024. Applications by 19 July. Some funding available. https://t.co/rckYqysQkJ

[SOAS Development Studies @SOASDevelopment]

Congrats @DzodziTsikata and collaborators on @FemAfrica’s latest issue:

📌“Africa’s 21st Century Feminist Struggles: Terrains, Formations and Politics”

Read full journal⬇️
https://t.co/cAjGqmzgLN
@SOAS @FeministOnMarx @SaraStevano @estariade @nomhossain @ShirinMRai @SOASDevTraC

[SOAS Development for Transformation Centre @soasdevtrac]

@SOAS is delighted to have hosted #DSA2024 last week. It is an enormous privilege, allowing us to develop the theme around which the presentations, lectures and discussions revolve. Thank all who helped make this event a success!

Read the news story⬇️
https://t.co/DzUwev5LLj

[SOAS Development for Transformation Centre @soasdevtrac]

🌍Althea Rivas joins fellow colleagues @SOASDevelopment Angela Haynes & @HelinaShebeshe to co-convene panel PE04 today from 11:00-12:30 in Room B305. Don't miss this insightful discussion!

[SOAS Development for Transformation Centre @soasdevtrac]

Day 3 of #DSA2024 starts off w/ @CramerChristoph introducing Jimi Adesina, keynote speaker.
And an amazing lineup of @SOAS speakers: Althea-Maria Rivas, Helina Shebeshe, Angela Haynes, @FeministOnMarx @nomhossain Fathimah Fildzah Izzati, Hannah Bennet @RAxelby @_Emma_Crewe!

[Alessandra Mezzadri @FeministOnMarx]

Jimi Adesina from University of South Africa gives the third keynote #DSA2024 @SOAS on Re-reading the right to development 🔥@SOASDevelopment @SOASEconomics