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  1. JHDC Special Issue Call for Papers

    …vels, to bring about change. Transformative change may empower but also disrupts norms, structures, disciplines and the status quo. Further to the work of Kulundu-Bolus et al. (2020) we are interested to learn ‘what it may mean to transgress the limits of a neoliberal world and its crisis times in our research and praxis, in the service of a decolonial [and more sustainable] future’ (p.112, italics in original). We make a call to educators, schola…

  2. UK Development Studies Association conference in Bath

    …o-liberal thrust valorises independence and generates increasing populations whose labour appears either surplus or highly insecure, and so rely on forms of social dependence to secure a basic livelihood. Alongside these non-inclusive growth processes new communication technologies have become an important means through which relationships are enacted, reconfiguring notions of nationality, community, neighbourhood, family and personal identity. Fo…

  3. Krushil Watene Awarded Rutherford Discovery Fellowship

    …onal justice: Obligations and decision-making. https://royalsociety.org.nz/news/2018-rutherford-discovery-fellowships-to-accelerate-research-careers-announced/ Dr. Watene, Ngāti Manu, Te Hikutu, Ngāti Whātua o Orākei Tonga, says that many of our long-held beliefs, such as the notion that the environment is a resource without limit, fail us under the weight of such things as global climate change and rapid technological advancements. “The impacts o…

  4. Call for Papers: Journal of Global Ethics Special Issue on Education and Migration

    …ci, but academic debate has largely neglected the matter of education in a world of transnational migration. Migration includes seasonal work, informal or undocumented migration, guest-worker migration, refugee accommodation, refugee resettlement and non-asylum immigration. Education that pertains to migration may be a concern that applies to migrants entering a nation and their children, but also to those adults and children who are already resid…

  5. Call for Papers: Conference on the effective implementation of disability rights in Africa

    …ovember 2015, Pretoria, South Africa http://www.up.ac.za/en/faculty-of-law/news/post_2100583-call-for-papers-conference-on-the-effective-implementation-of-disability-rights-in-africa Deadline (Abstracts): 17 July 2015 Authors will be notified by 31 July 2015 whether their abstract has been accepted. Deadline (Papers): 15 September 2015. Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be required to submit their full papers by 15 September 2015. Limited…

  6. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities

    …e interested in confronting the challenges of human development at global, national and local levels. The Journal publishes original research work of high quality in social sciences (i.e. philosophy, economics, international development, politics, sociology, among others) and interdisciplinary pieces as well. Articles shall offer an original and significant contribution in poverty, inequality, well-being analysis, agency, gender, development ethic…

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