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    DSA2026

    University College Dublin
    8 – 10 Jul 2026

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P01


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


6 paper proposals Propose
Decolonising development in Africa: Real shifts or new hierarchies?   
P03


5 paper proposals Propose
Climate justice and African futures: From adaptation to transformative change   
P04


8 paper proposals Propose
Digital rights, governance, and development futures in the global South    
P05


3 paper proposals Propose
Financing climate for a just transition: Governing climate funds and measuring impacts   
P06


3 paper proposals Propose
The new South in global development   
P07


11 paper proposals Propose
Who speaks for development? Decolonising knowledge and practice   
P08


8 paper proposals Propose
Skill gaps, aspirations and inequality in the brave new world   
P09


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


6 paper proposals Propose
Service delivery in crisis: Power, agency and contested futures   
P11


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


3 paper proposals Propose
Building digital technologies for firms in the global South: Capabilities, power, and pathways   
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6 paper proposals Propose
Rethinking urban governance in Africa: Navigating security, participation, and resilience to strengthen local agency   
P14


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


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


4 paper proposals Propose
Enhancing the agency of the locals for sustainable peace and development in conflict-prone communities   
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Power and agency in digital development: How digital citizenship and digital authoritarianism co-produce human development.   
P18


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


8 paper proposals Propose
Is development still possible? [Politics and Political Economy SG]   
P20


4 paper proposals Propose
The new cold war(s) in Africa: (Under)development redux?   
P21


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


2 paper proposals Propose
Financing peace and control: Evidence from aid, budgets, and agreements   
P23


4 paper proposals Propose
Reimagining accountability to children and young people in global development programming   
P24


1 paper proposal Propose
Rethinking Global South volunteerism and development: Solidarity, agency and development alternatives    
P25


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


15 paper proposals Propose
Epistemic ruptures in climate governance: Reimagining justice, knowledge, and authority   
P27


5 paper proposals Propose
Health debts and health financialisation in the majority world   
P28


10 paper proposals Propose
Feminist and decolonial visions of development [Gender and Development SG]    
P29


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


4 paper proposals Propose
Beyond financial systems’ access: Indigenous knowledge, financial justice & community agencies roles   
P31


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


2 paper proposals Propose
AI governance as epistemic contestation: A global South perspective   
P33


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


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


1 paper proposal Propose
Multipolar aid dynamics: Equity in emerging geopolitical alliances   
P36


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


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


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


5 paper proposals Propose
Materialities of infrastructure: Exploring how development is built, lived, and contested   
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Data, power, and survival: Digital transformations in smallholder climate adaptation   
P41


1 paper proposal Propose
Addressing the global challenge of promoting wellbeing to reimagine development and social justice   
P42


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


5 paper proposals Propose
Rethinking activism and academia in the global South   
P44


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


4 paper proposals Propose
Beyond resilience: Enabling systemic transformation amidst uncertainties associated with climate change    
P46


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


1 paper proposal Propose
The new era of techno-nationalist globalization   
P48


1 paper proposal Propose
Integrating diverse datasets for people-centred early warning systems: Bridging local and scientific knowledge, engaging knowledge hierarchies    
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Reimagining carbon governance: Power, agency, and justice under the carbon border adjustment mechanism   
P50


14 paper proposals Propose
Arts, culture, conflict and peacebuilding:Where next?   
P51


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


6 paper proposals Propose
New and emerging directions for gender based violence: Methods, findings and applications   
P53


4 paper proposals Propose
Transformative alternatives : Indigenous imaginaries to climate justice and planetary sustainability (ECCSG)    
P54


7 paper proposals Propose
Rethinking food futures: Gender, technology and inequality in a changing agrarian world    
P55


4 paper proposals Propose
Questions on the future of aid and development   
P56


2 paper proposals Propose
Youth mobilisations, informality, and urban futures in the global south   
P57


5 paper proposals Propose
Inclusion as governance: Power, mobility, and the uncertain futures of development   
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Governing AI: power, regulation, and struggles across the global South    
P59


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


3 paper proposals Propose
Urban informality, grassroots agency, and alternative visions of progress [Urbanisation SG]   
P61


3 paper proposals Propose
Climate-health futures: Power and exclusivity    
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Innovation under uncertainty: How innovation system actors cope with economic and policy volatility   
P63


4 paper proposals Propose
Development pasts and futures amid renewed great power competition   
P64


2 paper proposals Propose
Decolonising development: Challenging domination by the global North [DSA Scotland SG]   
P65


3 paper proposals Propose
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


3 paper proposals Propose
Agency from the margins: Non-state actors as architects of futures    
P67


2 paper proposals Propose
Lost in translation: Linguistic infrastructures of inclusion in the age of AI   
P68


4 paper proposals Propose
Children and youth in contexts of conflict and colonisation: Violence, agency and alternative futures   
P69


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


2 paper proposals Propose
Brokers, agency and power in a fragmenting world   
P71


4 paper proposals Propose
Reimagining higher education: African scholars and the decolonisation of knowledge   
P72


2 paper proposals Propose
An age of ‘Gen-Z’ revolutions?    
P73


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


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


1 paper proposal Propose
Contested pathways: Pluralizing the just transition discourse    
PE01


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


3 contribution proposals Propose
Fieldnotes from the uncertain: Reimagining the everyday through participatory methods   
PE04


1 contribution proposal Propose
Uncertain futures and young people: Exploring the polycrisis through ethnographic and longitudinal research   
PE05


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


1 contribution proposal Propose
Staging the unseen beyond the text: Staging power and agency in development research.   
PE07


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


1 contribution proposal Propose
‘Bad feelings’ in Development: Lessons in failure, loss, and despair    
PE09


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


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


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


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


1 contribution proposal Propose
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


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


1 contribution proposal Propose
Development's quiet backbone: Workers, ethics, idealism and everyday survival   
R05


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Bridging academia, policy, and practice in refugee research    
R06


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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


2 contribution proposals Propose
Bridging boundaries: Towards a compassionate and connected academy   
R13


2 contribution proposals Propose
International development: A profession for the priviledged?   
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