DSA2026 – Reimagining Development: Power, Agency, and Futures in an Uncertain World

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 10Jul

https://www.devstud.org.uk/conference/conference-2026/

Our 2026 conference will take place as a hybrid conference organised and hosted by University College Dublin. The DSA2026 conference explores ways on how shifting power relations and emerging forms of agency are reshaping the field. What does it mean to reimagine development in light of contested futures, decolonial struggles, and systemic challenges?

Hybrid in 2026

In 2026, our annual conference will be hybrid in format (in-person and online combined) to ensure the highest levels of inclusion, flexibility and engagement. We will have a range of panel formats to choose from to achieve maximum participation.

 

Conference Theme: Reimagining Development: Power, Agency, and Futures in an Uncertain World

In a time of deepening global uncertainty – from climate crisis to digital disruption – development is being redefined. This theme invites critical reflections on how shifting power relations and emerging forms of agency are reshaping the field. What does it mean to reimagine development in light of contested futures, decolonial struggles, and systemic challenges?

At DSA2026, we welcome contributions on issues such as:

  • Decolonising development and redistributing power
  • AI, digital technologies, and new forms of inequality
  • Climate justice and transformative futures
  • Geopolitical shifts and the future of aid
  • Grassroots agency, solidarity, and alternative visions of progress.

The conference also invites panels that extend beyond the central theme, addressing key concerns in development studies.

About us

https://www.devstud.org.uk/about/our-aims-and-objectives/

The UK association for all those who research, teach and study global development issues.

The Development Studies Association promotes and advances international development as a field of study, research and action. We aim to deepen understanding of how global poverty, inequalities, conflict and environmental destruction are produced, sustained and may be overcome, and how a better future may be advanced.

The DSA is a membership organisation, with both individual and institutional members, and is wholly funded through its membership premiums and activities.

 

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