P01


G(local) political economy of green transition: Actors, institutions, and power shifts   
P02


Decolonising development in Africa: Real shifts or new hierarchies?   
P03


Climate justice and African futures: From adaptation to transformative change   
P04


Digital rights, governance, and development futures in the global South    
P05


Financing climate for a just transition: Governing climate funds and measuring impacts   
P06


The new South in global development   
P07


Who speaks for development? Decolonising knowledge and practice   
P08


Skill gaps, aspirations and inequality in the brave new world   
P09


Reproductive justice or population control? Decolonising sexual and reproductive health in the global South   
P10


Service delivery in crisis: Power, agency and contested futures   
P11


Tension? Competing Visions for Digital Agriculture and Rural Development: Smallholder Agency vs profitable business models at scale.    
P12


Building digital technologies for firms in the global South: Capabilities, power, and pathways   
P13


Rethinking urban governance in Africa: Navigating security, participation, and resilience to strengthen local agency   
P14


Grassroots agency and power: Reimagine solidarity and decolonisation [NGO in the Development SG]   
P15


Power, agency, and knowledge: Reclaiming African women’s philosophies in development discourse   
P16


Enhancing the agency of the locals for sustainable peace and development in conflict-prone communities   
P17


Power and agency in digital development: How digital citizenship and digital authoritarianism co-produce human development.   
P18


Economics under siege: Development, survival, and agency in Gaza - organised by the GDI students for Palestine   
P19


Is development still possible? [Politics and Political Economy SG]   
P20


The new cold war(s) in Africa: (Under)development redux?   
P21


The post-aid retrenchment era and equitable partnerships in development: Reclaiming southern power and agency   
P22


Financing peace and control: Evidence from aid, budgets, and agreements   
P23


Reimagining accountability to children and young people in global development programming   
P24


Rethinking Global South volunteerism and development: Solidarity, agency and development alternatives    
P25


Beyond aid: South-South cooperation and the reimagining of development in a multipolar world   
P26


Epistemic ruptures in climate governance: Reimagining justice, knowledge, and authority   
P27


Health debts and health financialisation in the majority world   
P28


Feminist and decolonial visions of development [Gender and Development SG]    
P29


Reimagining public health: Power, inequality, and empowerment in uncertain futures in the global South   
P30


Beyond financial systems’ access: Indigenous knowledge, financial justice & community agencies roles   
P31


The role(s) of social capital in resilience in fragile and conflict-affected contexts   
P32


AI governance as epistemic contestation: A global South perspective   
P33


Shifting landscapes of welfare and mutuality: Reimagining local and transnational aid amid limited state support and declining international assistance   
P34


The political economy of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and development [Digital Technologies, Data and Development SG]   
P35


Multipolar aid dynamics: Equity in emerging geopolitical alliances   
P36


Gender, collective action and climate justice Theme: Climate justice and transformative futures and grassroots agency, solidarity, and alternative visions of progress    
P37


Algorithmic justice or digital control? AI, predictive policing, and the future of security governance   
P38


Reimagining learning futures: Exploring how the intersection of AI and open educational resources shapes the quest for equitable education   
P39


Materialities of infrastructure: Exploring how development is built, lived, and contested   
P40


Data, power, and survival: Digital transformations in smallholder climate adaptation   
P41


Addressing the global challenge of promoting wellbeing to reimagine development and social justice   
P42


Elite actors, technocracy and social stratification in the global South: Navigating the hierarchies of “depoliticised” knowledge for development   
P43


Rethinking activism and academia in the global South   
P44


Cosmopolitan imaginaries from the global South in the context of global citizenship, education and international migration   
P45


Beyond resilience: Enabling systemic transformation amidst uncertainties associated with climate change    
P46


What do we know about anti-poverty interventions and their impact on empowerment and what’s next? [Multidimensional poverty and poverty dynamics SG]   
P47


The new era of techno-nationalist globalization   
P48


Integrating diverse datasets for people-centred early warning systems: Bridging local and scientific knowledge, engaging knowledge hierarchies    
P49


Reimagining carbon governance: Power, agency, and justice under the carbon border adjustment mechanism   
P50


Arts, culture, conflict and peacebuilding:Where next?   
P51


Geopolitics and the middle-income trap: Industrial policy and value chains in a fragmenting world   
P52


New and emerging directions for gender based violence: Methods, findings and applications   
P53


Transformative alternatives : Indigenous imaginaries to climate justice and planetary sustainability (ECCSG)    
P54


Rethinking food futures: Gender, technology and inequality in a changing agrarian world    
P55


Questions on the future of aid and development   
P56


Youth mobilisations, informality, and urban futures in the global south   
P57


Inclusion as governance: Power, mobility, and the uncertain futures of development   
P58


Governing AI: power, regulation, and struggles across the global South    
P59


Making sense of protests in south Asia and beyond: implications for democratic participation and accountability   
P60


Urban informality, grassroots agency, and alternative visions of progress [Urbanisation SG]   
P61


Climate-health futures: Power and exclusivity    
P62


Innovation under uncertainty: How innovation system actors cope with economic and policy volatility   
P63


Development pasts and futures amid renewed great power competition   
P64


Decolonising development: Challenging domination by the global North [DSA Scotland SG]   
P65


Harnessing the Power of Education in Lifting Half the Sky: Securing Access and Unleashing Potential for Women and Girls in an era of Global Uncertainty   
P66


Agency from the margins: Non-state actors as architects of futures    
P67


Lost in translation: Linguistic infrastructures of inclusion in the age of AI   
P68


Children and youth in contexts of conflict and colonisation: Violence, agency and alternative futures   
P69


Crisis, recognition, and the politics of vulnerability: negotiating power and agency in global development   
P70


Brokers, agency and power in a fragmenting world   
P71


Reimagining higher education: African scholars and the decolonisation of knowledge   
P72


An age of ‘Gen-Z’ revolutions?    
P73


Resistance economies: struggling against domination and pursuing alternatives to "development" within – and through – production, exchange and distribution   
P74


Contested futures in the global South: curricular power, epistemic limitation, and institutional agency in development studies and allied disciplines   
P75


Contested pathways: Pluralizing the just transition discourse    
PE01


YSI experimental panel @DSA2026: Interdisciplinary workshop on international political economy and development   
PE03


Fieldnotes from the uncertain: Reimagining the everyday through participatory methods   
PE04


Uncertain futures and young people: Exploring the polycrisis through ethnographic and longitudinal research   
PE05


What does not count: Cultural production and counter-metrics of development success   
PE06


Staging the unseen beyond the text: Staging power and agency in development research.   
PE07


From tokenism to transformation: Rethinking women’s political leadership for peacebuilding and inclusive development in Africa and Middle East   
PE08


‘Bad feelings’ in Development: Lessons in failure, loss, and despair    
PE09


Key moments shaping religions and development research, policy and practice: Critical junctures of a discipline [Religions and Development SG]    
PE10


Decolonising development and redistributing power: Is it time to reject traditional humanitarian and development siloes and support more cohesive, equitable, locally driven responses?   
PE11


Agency, disruption and intersections: Feminist, transdisciplinary and creative methodologies for 'sensitive' research   
PE12


Re-imagining higher education in Gaza through solidarity and partnership: A conversation    
R01


A wider horizon: Decolonisation and the global majority   
R02


Voices of the people: To what extent are the views and sense of agency of citizens in the UK and Ireland shaping the future of global development?   
R03


Beyond digitalization: Rethinking AI and the possibilities of technological justice   
R04


Development's quiet backbone: Workers, ethics, idealism and everyday survival   
R05


Bridging academia, policy, and practice in refugee research    
R06


Ethics of research on Gaza: Knowledge, power, and responsibility during and after genocide   
R07


Slop, surveillance, and silencing: Academic publishing in the age of AI   
R08


The future of development: Dialogues at the interface of practice, policy & research   
R09


Shifting geopolitical sands: How global instability is shaping the public’s understanding of and approach to overseas development aid, and what this means for communicating development.   
R10


Can development be a meaningful framework for justice and transformation in a rapidly changing world?   
R11


Large-grant funded research centres and the political economy of research   
R12


Bridging boundaries: Towards a compassionate and connected academy   
R13


International development: A profession for the priviledged?   
 
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