DSA2026: Reimagining development: power, agency, and futures in an uncertain world
DSA2026
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DSA2026
University College Dublin
8 – 10 Jul 2026
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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
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