SOAS DevTraC (SOAS Development for Transformation Centre) is located in the Department of Development Studies.

SOAS, University of London
Joined March 2023
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🚨Call for applications! 🚨 Young scholars, don’t miss the #INET-#YSI workshop at organised by @SOAS students: "Big Problems, New Solutions: Reimagining Economic Policy" With stellar line-up of experts: 🔹 @Jayati1609 (UMass Amherst) 🔹 Boitumelo Molete(Trade Unionist, South Africa) 🔹 @JoseA_Ocampo (Columbia University) 🔹 @DanielaGabor (SOAS Development Studies Department) 🔹 Luiz Vieira (Bretton Woods Project) 🗓️ Registration deadline: 22 September 2024 📲 Scan the QR code for details!
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📌 ‘New and additional’: why funding climate finance from aid budgets is a problem. Mike Jennings @mikejennings101 argues that donors have failed to provide the promised new and additional funding, which risks undermining action on climate and poverty. Read the full blog here⬇️ rb.gy/36eujv #ClimateFinance #PovertyAction #ClimateChange #DevelopmentStudies #AidFunding #GlobalDevelopment #SustainableFuture #SOAS
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📢 Exciting News! Sara Stevano's latest publication on the devaluation of essential work is now available! Don’t miss out on this excellent contribution to the ongoing discussion. Check it out⤵️ @SOASEconomics @SOAS #socialreproduction @ilo
Here is my assessment of the ILO 2023 report on 'The value of essential work': onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… The report centres the problem of devaluation of essential work and provides a wealth of useful data. Yet, it fails to recognise the contested nature of the essential work 1/2
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Interested in the future of energy in #Africa? Check out this insightful blog! It explores energy transition from a developmental and production-oriented perspective. #energytranstion #development #GreenEnergy
📌 SOAS Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation ( @csst_soas ) held its first bi-annual conference: “Powering Production: A Developmental Energy Transition for Africa.” 🌍 Read the blog ⬇️ tinyurl.com/2p7kc6n3
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📌 Check out Peter Mollinga and Andrea Rizzi’s recent research paper “Blooming activism in a drying land: Water justice movements along river Tigris in Iraq” Read full paper here⬇️ shorturl.at/pRD8d #WaterJustice #Water #GrassrootsMovements #Iraq #Kurdistan
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🎥Listen to our colleague @nomhossain expressing concerns regarding the reprisal attacks in the wake of the PM’s resignation: Bangladesh “cannot afford” to repeat authoritarian rule! @SOAS @SOAS_SAI @estariade @lhammondsoas @FeministOnMarx @sndeall @PoMoGandhi @tommytanner
Naomi Hossain, a professor of development studies at SOAS University of London, worries about reprisal attacks and a possible return to authoritarian rule in Bangladesh following the resignation of PM Sheikh Hasina.
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Bangladesh is seeing the deadliest crackdown by the government against protesters in the country. Sign the petition demanding the government of Bangladesh to end this repression now: amnesty.org/en/petition/bang… amnesty.org/en/petition/bang…
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Read @valenfrassa_'s feminist political economy analysis of 'Poor Things': "revolutionary in its fearless portrayal of unapologetic feminine sexual desire" even if it fails to challenge social norms, "personally and intellectually liberating" soas.ac.uk/about/blog/what-y…
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📣 @SOASDevelopment & @SOASEconomics conceived the theme for #DSA2024 and within that overall theme, the conference had three strands, incl. reproduction and production – highlighted by @Jimiadesina Read more here ⤵️ buff.ly/4bSn5g7
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📌 @SOAS Economist Dr Miguel Niño-Zarazúa explores the complex effects of clientelism on economic development, State capacity, and governance in the context of rising populism and autocracies. Read the blog ⬇️ tinyurl.com/554cdp8d
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Call for Kigali workshop papers - "Intergenerational Justice in Africa" - hosted by @UR_CASS @SOASPolitics & funded by @LeverhulmeTrust. 3 themes: conflict, care & climate. Hybrid workshop, 5-6 Sept 2024. Applications by 19 July. Some funding available. soas.ac.uk/about/news/call-w…
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Highlights from Thursday at #DSA2024 🌟 🇧🇩 Lively captivating talk by @nomhossain - captured in poetry by @koleDey! 💻 Delegates engaging from Brazil to Manchester! 📚 Sessions publishing in journals + @OUPEconomics book series 📖 Book launch by @BrisUniPress on Myanmar. – at Camden Town, London
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📌@FeministOnMarx, Reader in Global Development & Political Economy at @SOAS, co-convenes with @nomhossain, Jean Jenkins and Nikolaus Hammer on panel P05. ‘Manufacturing social justice and the politics of labour in and out the global garment shopfloor’, today and tomorrow.
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📌Today, #DSA2024 features @SOAS’ Yasmine H, @nomhossain, @tommytanner, @SaraStevano, @giusi_siciliano, @FeministOnMarx, @PoMoGandhi, @JasparsSusanne, Iris Lim, Katherine O, @VCDatSOAS, @fildzahusna, Fatima F Izzati, @sakhinitinanita @SurbhiKesar, @MiguelNinoZ and @lizzie_hull1!
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📌 Sarah Njeri, Lecturer in Humanitarianism and Development at @SOAS will convene panel P40 at the @devcomms #DSA2024 Conference on the 26th of June 14:30-16:00 in Room B305: "Towards a new eco-social contract: Gender and climate change". ♻️
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What do violence & development have to do w each other? Still time to apply to study our pioneering, exciting MSc Violence, Conflict & Development soas.ac.uk/study/find-course… aka VCD @SOASDevelopment - each yr we get truly passionate group of students for this inter-disciplinary prog
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Second panel on social reproduction, migration and racism at the Labour Transfer School, with Rutvica Andrijasevic, Máryuri Golzales, Romin Khan ✊🏼🔥@SOASDevelopment @RosaluxEuropa
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