Silence, Dust and Oblivion: Reflections on Extractive Legacies from the Atacama Desert
Remains of the Pampa Lina saltpetre offices (foreground) beside modern mining waste (background). Photo: Esteban Valle Riestra By Esteban Valle Riestra, Postgraduate researcher, GDI The Atacama Desert in Chile may appear to be a barren and unproductive land, where...
Call for Papers – ‘(Re-)establishing Political Economy in Development Studies’
An Early Career-led and focused workshop from the PhD ‘Political Economy of Development’ working group. Funded by the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) and the Development Studies Association (DSA), linked to the joint...
Being a migrant: embodied experiences and bodily strategies
by Tanja Bastia, Erika Busse, Verónica Montes, and Andrea Souto Garcia At the 25th IMISCOE conference, the largest migration conference in Europe, recently held in Paris, we (the authors) took the opportunity to meet and discuss our respective research experiences,...
“I’m a ‘privileged’ researcher from a Global North university”: When reflexivity becomes performative (and why that matters)
by Anuradha Ganapathy, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester “Development” as a concept and field of study is far from being free of its colonial, patriarchal, and hierarchical legacies. In this context, questions of who researches and who is being...