Development Geographies Research Group (RGS-IBG)

The @devgeogsrg.bsky.social ‬AGM will take place on Wednesday, 3rd September from 1.00 to 2.30pm on Zoom. Get in touch for further details! We hope to see you there. 😊

Dialogues in Human Geography - Volume 15, Number 2 Table of contents for Dialogues in Human Geography, 15, 2

The July 2025 Issue of Dialogues in Human Geography is now available.

Including three regular article forums and two book review forums.

Available here:

journals.sagepub.com/toc/DHG/curr...

Interesting PhD opportunity: karriere.uni-vechta.de/fileadmin_ka...

Screenshot of an abstract in Area by Jeremy Schmidt, Mary Lawhon, Jonathan Darling & Eli Lazarus (2025) entitled 'Areas of opportunity' Short Abstract This editorial introduces Area's new editorial team and offers a collective sense of why Area continues to be an important outlet for geographical scholarship.

📢New Editorial in Area📢

Our new editorial team, @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social, @jonnydarling.bsky.social, @envidynxlab.bsky.social & Mary Lawhon, have written their first editorial outlining their ambitions for the journal - have a read here⬇️

doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

The contribution of Social and Solidarity Economies to Just Sustainability Transformations in the North of England. at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The contribution of Social and Solidarity Economies to Just Sustainability Transformations in the North of England. at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Research Associate - London (Greater) (GB) job with KINGS COLLEGE LONDON | 393304 The Centre for the Study of Governance and Society (CSGS) in the Department of Political Economy (DPE) is seeking a one-year post-doctoral fellow ...

www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

Postdoctoral Fellow - Justice and Electricity Transmission - Sydney, Australia job with UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY | 396116 As such, we see the importance of recruiting talent aligned to these values and are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow ...

www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

SAP+D - Postdoctoral Researcher - Urban Heritage and Spatial Justice - Morocco (MA) job with MOHAMMED VI POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY | 395582 SAP+D invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher to contribute to a project exploring the intersection between urban heritage ...

www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

OnlineFirst - "The political ecology of new disease in Tema, Ghana" by Halie Kampman:

#politicalecologyofhealth #Ghana #newdiseases #chemicalfertilizer #hybridknowledges

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The Crisis of Development and Development Studies and Possibilities for Transformation By Sebeka Richard Plaatjie Development requires human persons to exist. On this basis it is reasonable to suggest that human life or the preservation thereof, is the foremost condition for developm…

Here, Sebeka Richard Plaatjie calls for a new paradigm of development and Development Studies altogether
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1767

In Defence of Development Studies: Why “Global Development” Falls Short By Alfredo Saad-Filho There is a growing debate in academic circles about the merits of shifting from traditional Development Studies to a broader concept of “Global Development”. While proponents …

Here, @alfredosaadfilho.bsky.social strongly argues for keeping the discipline of Development Studies focuse on the "specificity to the economic, social, and political structures in the Global South"
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2102

developmentgeographies.rgs(at)gmail.com

The @devgeogsrg.bsky.social ‬AGM will take place on Wednesday, 3rd September from 1.00 to 2.30pm on Zoom. Get in touch for further details! We hope to see you there. 😊

For a Critical Logistics of Eviction: Producing Property Through Mobility in Cape Town Understanding eviction as a positioning of bodies and loss in a property relation, I argue a critical logistical reading may offer a means of describing the capacity to evict within the economic, rac...

Great new paper from Alex Baker in Antipode

“For a Critical Logistics of Eviction: Producing Property Through Mobility in Cape Town”

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Screenshot of a commentary abstract in The Geographical Journal by Paul Griffin, John Clayton & Edith Adamson (2025) entitled 'Racialised violence: Riots, space and temporality' with a blue banner at the top. This short intervention offers a historical geography-informed approach to shape understandings of the events and racialised violence of summer 2024 in the United Kingdom. We draw upon Black British Cultural Studies to foreground the importance of temporality and spatial relations for understanding racialised violence. In doing so, we identify continuities across 100 years of racialised violence in Britain whilst also noting important differences. We revisit riotous events from 1919, 1981 and 2001 to illustrate the persistence of exclusionary racism within Britain, whilst also pointing towards the endurance of anti-racist resistance and alternative world views. Our argument points towards the immediacy of violence, in both mundane and spectacular forms, as well as the longer lasting realm of the everyday where racialised violence is (re)produced.

#OpenAccess in The GJ:

'Racialised violence: Riots, space and temporality' by @paulgriffin1.bsky.social et al.

This piece forms part of a collection of commentaries reflecting on the UK riots which followed last July's Southport attack.

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky

Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Senior Research Associate - Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage and Knowledge Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) is pleased to announce a Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) position as part of a Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Counterma...

Senior Research Associate Position on "Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage and Knowledge" - hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Professorship in Human Geography at TU Dresden University, Germany TU Dresden, a university of excellence, invites applications for a W3 Professorship in Human Geography. Join a world-class institution, lead impactful research, and contribute to interdisciplinary education in Germany.

Professorship in Human Geography at TU Dresden University, Germany

TU Dresden, a university of excellence, invites applications for a W3 Professorship in Human Geography. Join a world-class institution, lead impactful research, and contribute to interdisciplinary education in Germany.

New publication (open access) in Progress in Human Geography!

For a political economy of housing and health

(@proghumgeog.bsky.social)
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My department (Geography, Maynooth University) is looking to appoint an Assistant Lecturer in Human Geography for a 25-month contract starting Jan 2026. Apply by 17 August 2025. Details here: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

Nature and Space Vol. 8, No. 3 is now out and available online! It features articles on a number of topics, from sewage treatment and tribal sovereignty to pastoral mobility and contested land grabbing.

Link and ToC below:

journals.sagepub.com/toc/enea/8/3...

Scrabble tiles on a table that spell out CLIMATE. Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash

A review of National Citizens’ Climate Assemblies: learning from deliberative events 🤝 This article reviews the rapidly emerging literature on citizens’ assemblies and assesses their significance for understanding climate policy and governance: buff.ly/KCSUFgl

Still time to get in touch about joining the DevGRG Committee. We'd especially love to hear from anyone that might be able to support us in the communications coordinator role 😊

Still time to apply for this Postdoc opportunity at Newcastle Uni with a great team: jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

A rain garden staged at Cygnet Square, South Thamesmead - a landscaped green space between two buildings with sparsely planted trees in between other shrubs (some flowering) and rocks. Photo by Zuhri James.

#OpenAccess in Transactions

'Staged ecologies: Aesthetics, nature & infrastructure in the late-modern metropolis' by @zuhrijames.bsky.social

This paper examines the relationship between urban nature & landscape design within a £1.5 billion regeneration project in SE London.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Shaymaa Abulebda, an influential writer & scholar from Gaza, should soon be starting a PhD at the University of Edinburgh [part of which is an internship at Comma]. Instead she lives in a tent in al-Mawasi displacement camp in the ruins of southern Gaza.
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

📚 Danny Millum and Paul Gilbert have published Teaching with Tricontinental: A sourcebook for students working with radical periodicals which draws on staff and student work with the @britishlibrary.bsky.social for Development Studies Legacy Collection.
openpress.sussex.ac.uk/teachingwith...

OnlineFirst - "Developing methods for future-gazing economic geographies" by Guy Crawford, Jens Christiansen, and Fernanda Rojas-Marchini:

#futurestudies #environmentalmarkets #performativity #qualitativemethods #quantitativemethods

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Special forum in honour of pioneer development, feminist and participatory methods geographer, Janet Townsend, late of Durham University, for Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.

Call for Papers – Journal of Latin American Studies. Special Issue: What is Informality and What Could Be? Examples From the Latin American Region. Deadline for abstracts (1–2 pages + short bio): 30 Sept 2025. Submit to: presilient.dn@gmail.com
drive.google.com/drive/u/1/fo... #urban #sociology

We are delighted that our Special Issue on "The Politics of Growth, Stagnation and Upgrading in Peripheral Economies" coedited w/ @fbulfone.bsky.social & Aldo Madariaga is now out in Competition & Change @compchange.bsky.social, Vol. 29(3–4).
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1024...