DSA2025: Navigating crisis: dangers and opportunities in development

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Evolving dynamics of conflict transformation in the 21st Century: The role of mercenaries and their emerging legitimacy within the development nexus

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Resilient futures: African innovations in polycrisis management and sustainable development

P03

Participatory methods in times of crisis - between performative tokenism and decolonial approaches

P04

Re(centring) dignity in development

P05

Governing the crisis: narratives of Covid-19 in India

P06

The polycrisis and gendered health inequities

P07

Reversing the gaze: Global south perspectives on knowledge, power, and positionality

P08

The role of culture and heritage in shaping solutions for development

P09

The dynamics and impacts of Chinese space infrastructure projects in Africa

P10

Challenging authoritarian developmentalism and crisis from below: Perspectives from India

P11

Inequality, polycrises and young people in the global South

P12

1 proposals Propose

Youth and protests in Africa

P13

Whose progress? Rethinking development through the lens of women's safety

P14

Reimagining human security and the humanitarian-development-peace nexus in an age of polycrisis

P15

Adaptive governance and community empowerment: Effective strategies for (re)shaping development pathways in the twenty-first century

P16

Power plays: Navigating justice in the energy transition

P17

2 proposals Propose

Protecting the poor and marginalized: State (in)capacity, healthcare disparities and socio-economic inequalities in LMICs

P18

Academic Activism – Rethinking boundaries of knowledge, method, and discipline

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Reimagining and fostering rural development in an era of polycrisis across the tropics

P20

The role of non-state actors in political crises

P21

The Arab Spring ten years on: women and well-being in the MENA countries

P22

The geography of women’s labour force participation

P23

Power, land and clean energy: Navigating Africa's green development paradox

P24

Coal, land, labour: A liminal transition?

P25

Extreme weather, health and wellbeing among vulnerable populations in the urban global South

P26

Social protection and climate change: from theory and evidence to better practice

P27

Wellbeing in crisis and ‘ordinary’ times: Exploring the Bath Wellbeing in Developing Countries (WeD) legacy in development studies and beyond

P28

Linking development with futures studies: contested social science perspectives on anticipation

P29

Navigating crisis: Dangers and opportunities in a just energy transition for sustainable development in Africa

P30

State power and the struggle for ecological and social regeneration: limits and possibilities in the Global South

P31

Navigating Exclusive Spaces & Novel Methods: Responding to Development’s Private Sector Turn

P32

Advocacy for global justice in a changing world: strategies and constraints

P33

Rethinking evaluation in times of crisis: empowerment, accountability and transformation in the Global North and South

P34

Urban Informality and the Polycrisis

P35

Resiliently responding to the polycrisis: Absorbing, adapting to and transforming crisis situations in an uncertain world.

P36

Industrial animal agriculture, meatification, and development in the polycrisis era

P37

Centring Race and Colonialism to Questions of Agrarian Change

P38

1 proposals Propose

Justice in Crisis: Climate and Ecological Crisis and Justice (ENRCC SG)

P39

Regime change or institutional change? Protest movements, elites, and emerging visions of politics and development in the global South

P40

Third Sector’s Responses to Wars and Conflict: Solidarity, Antiracism and Decolonisation (NGOs in development study group at DSA UK)

P41

The Politics of Care: Gendered Impacts on Health and Food Security in Times of Crisis in the Global South

P42

Decolonising development aid for collective action on climate change: tackling the trust deficit [Decolonising Development SG]

P43

Between the Event and the Everyday: Is Crisis Management 'Just' enough for planetary health?

P44

Digital Agriculture in Crisis

P45

Visualizing Crisis: Narratives and Imagery in Navigating Development Challenges

P46

Crisis and Identity: Navigating Democratic Polarisation in the Global South

P47

Using care to rewriting the son-centred intergenerational contract in urban Asia

P48

Challenging the crisis of migration – rethinking the interface between development and migration

P49

Navigating Structural Transformation in Africa in an Age of Ecological Crisis

P50

Poverty Dynamics amidst Recurrent Crises: Reflections, Responses and Revivals Panel proposal organised by the DSA study group on Poverty Dynamics and Multidimensional Poverty

P51

Making an impact: ethnographic approaches to producing “good data”

P52

Artificial Intelligence Opportunities for Developing Transformative Positive Change in Future Food Systems

P53

Implications of Climate Change on Women’s Work in South Asia

P54

Platform Economy, precarious work and future of gig workers' rights: Discussing the development with the lens of ‘decent work’

P55

Navigating difficult deaths and their aftermath during conflict and crisis

P56

‘Our house is on fire’: radical responses to the polycrisis and the challenges to development.

P57

Reimagining urban futures: Addressing urban informalities, conflicts, exclusion, and displacement through reform coalitions in the south

PE01

Inclusive narratives in crisis: Freedom of expression as a tool for development

PE02

Thriving together: Resilience and wellbeing in resource-dependent communities

PE03

Young scholars Initiative experimental panel @DSA2025: Interdisciplinary workshop on institutions and development

PE04

‘Pluriversal living and dreaming: relational, more-than-human and decolonial sustainability futures’

PE05

Plural renewals: exploring diverse meanings of ‘development’ in our shared polycrisis

PE06

Community-Led Crisis Response as Development Practice: Reimagining Humanitarian Action from the Global South

PE07

Youth in urban social movements: new solidarities and intergenerational collaborations.

PE08

Navigating Gaza Higher Education Crisis: Understanding aspirations and opportunities

PE09

1 proposals Propose

Re-reading “stories-so-far”: Reflexivity and the Crisis of Postcolonial Development

PE10

Researching and doing development while Black

R01

Decolonizing journals of development studies

R02

Development studies in the turbulent 2020s: Reflecting on the past, looking to the future EADI 50th anniversary roundtable & launch of special issue of EJDR

R03

Investing in frontline capacities for social protection in deepening crises

R04

Reintegration of refugees in host community: Leveraging community resilience and innovative strategies for sustainable development

R05

Building bridges: Synergies between feminist economics and development studies in times of crisis

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Intersections and disconnects between labour, social protection and livelihoods analysis

R07

Framing water as a global common good: Risks, opportunities, and implications

R08

Towards a Meaningful Practice of Reparative Development: Bridging Crises and Reimagining Opportunities for Decolonisation

R09

Strength in the margins: Rrural responses to crisis and change

R10

Arts-based methods for religions and development research

R11

Agri-food Supply Chains in the era of the environmental polycrisis: what are the possible futures for the Brazilian soy chain?

R12

Breaking the mould: seeking equity through reforging mechanisms for 'North-South' research collaborations

R13

A field built on narratives of crisis, now in crisis: Opportunities at the intersections of development praxis and interventions to combat modern slavery and human trafficking.

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