This study begins with an overview of illustrative scenarios that historically have resulted in
imbalances of economic well‐being, growth and stability which demarcate the Global South …

The COVID‐19 pandemic motivated calls for the field of development studies to be recast.
This article analyses two prominent, future‐gazing 'pandemic papers' to illustrate salient …

Recent calls to shift from an “international” to a “global” development paradigm have sought
to challenge global North–South binaries. This has provoked lively debate, with criticisms …

This article asks how the concept of resilience has been used in development studies. Set
amidst the rise of resilience in sustainable development, it offers insights for scholars and …

The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed significant variation in the scale and form of
decommodification across the capitalist world economy. To explore these uneven …

The growing emphasis on the societal impact of sustainability research has implications for
how we understand, measure, and support research excellence. This shift is particularly …

Islands have come to be seen as a distinct object of disaster risk and climate change policy
and research. This is reflected in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 …

Recent years have seen proliferating media references to 'deglobalization', frequently
drawing historical analogies with periods of crisis and dislocation, such as the 1930s. At the …

How might decolonising development discourse and practice support a move beyond the
'dead-ends' of critical research—so good in identifying problems but not solutions—and …

This special issue asks what happens to international research and collaboration when the
research community becomes temporarily immobilized. The COVID-19 global pandemic …