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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · 6d

✨Coca Talks: Futuro Coca in London
Join us for a dialogue on the alternative uses of coca leaves with activists, scholars & experts.

📅 17 Oct 2025, 18:00–20:30
📍KLT, SOAS

➡️ Register: shorturl.at/3AWXF
@carlosoya.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social

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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · 6d

📌What does it mean to ‘return’?

Join the SOAS Centre for Migration & Diaspora Studies for a two-day workshop on the concept and practices of return.

📅 17 Oct, 5:30pm, DLT, SOAS
📅 18 Oct, 1pm, SOAS Bar

🔗 Details & registration: shorturl.at/ScRNW
@naomihossain.bsky.social @terminalias.bsky.social

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Naomi Hossain @naomihossain.bsky.social · Jul 29

open.substack.com/pub/naomihos...

The Bangladesh we never see: Ismail Ferdous's Sea Beach

July 2025

open.substack.com

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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · 29d

Unexploded bombs harm the environment, and climate change makes it worse. Great new piece by @sndeall.bsky.social & Christina Greene in @uk.theconversation.com

Read here➡️shorturl.at/CUhbr
@naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social

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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · Aug 12

📢 @soasdevelopment.bsky.social publications news:

🚗 Matteo Rizzo on ride-hail drivers’ views of work: doi.org/10.1111/dech...

📉 Christopher Cramer on revisiting the Lewis Model: doi.org/10.25501/SOA...

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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · Aug 29

"Five lessons the UK can learn from Italy’s asylum accommodation crisis"@terminalias.bsky.social
draws on his extensive research to explain why.

Read the full blog➡️: shorturl.at/C9JbG
@naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @laurahammond.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social

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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · Jun 16

📸 Highlights from our “Violence, Conflict and Changing Global Orders” conference at @soasuni.bsky.social !

Huge thanks to the brilliant mix of students, scholars & practitioners who made it such a rich, cross-generational dialogue. Your insights brought the event to life!

Enjoy these snapshots!

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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · Jun 10

✨ Happening Tomorrow: Violence, Conflict and Changing Global Orders Conference!

🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏰ 2pm – 5pm
📍 BGLT, SOAS & Zoom
Don’t miss out. Register now! ➡️ shorturl.at/RKX3E

@possibilist.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social

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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · May 28

🔔Don’t miss out! Join us for a timely and important discussion at a critical moment for the field of #Violence, #Conflict & #Development. 11 June 🕒2pm – 5pm at BGLT, SOAS
Register now➡️: shorturl.at/RKX3E
@possibilist.bsky.social @crisisgroup.org @eadi.bsky.social @wfp.org @naomihossain.bsky.social

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · May 27

🕸️ Please share in your networks! @idos-research.bsky.social @ids.ac.uk @giga-hamburg.de @globaldevinst.bsky.social @soasdevelopment.bsky.social @isdcberlin.bsky.social @giesugent.bsky.social @diis.dk @bergenglobal.bsky.social @igdc.bsky.social @tninstitute.bsky.social @abi-freiburg.bsky.social

EADI @eadi.bsky.social · May 20

📣 The call for panels for our flagship event, the EADI/IOB general conference is out!

📅 Submit by 7 September 2025

www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

EADI/IOB 2026: Call for Panels: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local solutions?

29 June – 2 July 2026, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Deadline for submissions: 7 September 2025

www.eadi.org

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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · May 30

Violence, conflict and changing global orders: 25 years of the MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development at @soasdevelopment.bsky.social
📅 11 June
Online / In person event at SOAS with Christopher Cramer, ‪@laurahammond.bsky.social and others.
Register:
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

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Ale Mezzadri aka FeministOnMarx. @feministonmarx.bsky.social · Jun 2

My keynote for ILPC 2025 in Santiago is now published in an amended version in GLJ
👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour...
@soasdevelopment.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social

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Naomi Hossain @naomihossain.bsky.social · May 22

This is going to be a game-changer. If this had been on my undergrad reading list 35 years ago I may have never dropped economics... Pre-ordered! @surbhikesar.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social @soasdevelopment.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @soaseconomics.bsky.social

Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven @ingridhk.bsky.social · May 19

Link to order it here www.wiley.com/en-be/Decolo...

Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction

<p>Decolonization has long been debated across the social sciences, but the economics discipline has so far avoided such critical engagement. This book provides a much-needed intervention.<br /><br />...

www.wiley.com

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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · May 23

Latest news from @soasdevelopment.bsky.social 📣

Including, a recording of the talk on social reproduction with @feministonmarx.bsky.social
Shirin Rai
‪@sarastevano.bsky.social

Read more:
www.devstud.org.uk/2025/04/28/s...

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · May 20

📣 The call for panels for our flagship event, the EADI/IOB general conference is out!

📅 Submit by 7 September 2025

www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

EADI/IOB 2026: Call for Panels: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local solutions?

29 June – 2 July 2026, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Deadline for submissions: 7 September 2025

www.eadi.org

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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · May 28

🔔Don’t miss out! Join us for a timely and important discussion at a critical moment for the field of #Violence, #Conflict & #Development. 11 June 🕒2pm – 5pm at BGLT, SOAS
Register now➡️: shorturl.at/RKX3E
@possibilist.bsky.social @crisisgroup.org @eadi.bsky.social @wfp.org @naomihossain.bsky.social

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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · May 20

💧Latest SOAS Global Development Working Paper

Mollinga & Deekshit trace how water in Gujarat’s Sardar Sarovar Project became a tool of state power, far beyond farming and hydropower.

🔗 Read full paper ➡️: shorturl.at/SqKnO
@naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social

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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · Apr 7

ICYMI: The recording of the book launch discussions is now available here: 🎥shorturl.at/k6YO2

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SOAS Development Leadership Dialogue @soas-dld.bsky.social · May 16

📌 Join us with @soasdevelopment.bsky.social for a discussion with @soasuni.bsky.social DLD Director Professor Christopher Cramer, on the new MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development 🌍♻️

Info and registration 🔗 tinyurl.com/2sr3pt63

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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · May 15

🔎 Check out this brilliant piece in @theconversation.com by @lorena-lombardozzi.bsky.social -- "China is reshaping central Asia’s energy sector as Russian influence fades"
@soasdevelopment.bsky.social
Read full article here 👉 rb.gy/jszwli

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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · May 14

📌 "Violence, Conflict & Changing Orders"
Half-day conference exploring:
✅ Evolving global conflict patterns
✅ Emerging ideas & methods
✅ The future of the field

🎤@possibilist.bsky.social, Jonathan Goodhand, Zoe Marriage & more

🗓11 June @ 2–5pm
📍BGLT, SOAS
Register: shorturl.at/RKX3E

Violence, conflict and changing global orders: Marking 25 years of the MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development at SOAS

SOAS is convening a half day event to mark 25 years of the MSc Violence, Conflict and Development (VCD) to discuss these issues, and bringing together scholars, current students, alumni, and practitio...

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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · May 6

🎉 Congrats to @sndeall.bsky.social & Eka Ikpe on their award-winning piece on anti-vehicle mine clearance and long-term #peacebuilding & infrastructure in Angola.

🔗Read it here: shorturl.at/xmZpF

@naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

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SOAS Development Leadership Dialogue @soas-dld.bsky.social · Apr 30

📌 Join us with @soasdevelopment.bsky.social for a discussion with @soasuni.bsky.social DLD Director Professor Christopher Cramer, on the new MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development 🌍♻️

Info and registration 🔗 tinyurl.com/2sr3pt63

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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · May 2

🔍Check out @lorena-lombardozzi.bsky.social 's brilliant piece in the Conversation @theconversation.com "China is reshaping central Asia’s energy sector as Russian influence fades"
Read full article here 👉: rb.gy/jszwli

@naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social

China is reshaping central Asia’s energy sector as Russian influence fades

China is developing closer ties with countries in central Asia.

theconversation.com

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SOAS Development Leadership Dialogue @soas-dld.bsky.social · Apr 7

📌 Join us with @soasdevelopment.bsky.social for a discussion with @soasuni.bsky.social DLD Director Professor Christopher Cramer, on the new MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development 🌍♻️

Info and registration 🔗 tinyurl.com/2sr3pt63

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