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Development Studies, and the field of development, is transforming rapidly as conventional understandings of development and geographical boundaries are challenged. In the International Development Research Group (IDRG) we use an empirically based, multidisciplinary approach to grapple with these changes in order to generate new understandings and explanations and advance critical development theory. The research group is rooted in the International Development Studies Program at Roskilde University that was established in 1985. It is the oldest and one of the largest programs of its kind in Scandinavia. IDRG scholars investigate development trends, challenges and achievements in relation to local, national and global inequalities. Emphasizing fieldwork, IDRG draws upon and develops contextual analysis and grounded theorization.

IDRG scholars have expertise in anthropology, area studies, cultural studies, development economics, gender studies, geography, history, international political economy, political science and sociology. Our research currently deals with issues ranging from resource contestations, to global aid flows and neo- and postcolonialism. Much of this work, while still drawing on local and national dynamics, is also concerned with global entanglements. This includes a focus on the proliferation of new actors and technologies in development and the manner in which they impact traditional power hierarchies and reconstitute North-South relations. Further, we prioritize understanding the agents and institutions that can challenge existing hegemonic norms and orders as well as deep-seated inequalities of power, ethnicity, race, gender and class. Projects involving IDRG researchers have been funded by, among others, the Danish Council for Independent Research, Danida, Horizon 2020, the Dutch Research Council, the Carlsberg Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Our current research foci are as follows:

Policies and practices of international aid flows
Natural resources, climate change, sustainable development, resource conflicts and environmental politics
Poverty, economic development and industrial policy
Dynamic local, national and transnational configurations of state, conflict and citizenship
Social movements, civil society and radicalism
Labor markets, informal worker organizations and social protection
Processes of economic redistribution and global flows
Human security and humanitarianism
The complex interrelationships between local actors and global discourses
Health and the politics of food and nutrition
Remapping gendered and racial identities
Impacts of migration and diasporas on the political, economic, social and cultural dynamics of both sending and receiving societies
Policies and practices in rural and urban development, informality and illegal trade
South-South development and new actors in development

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Profiler

Tirza Julianne van Bruggen

tirzab@ruc.dk

Institut for Samfundsvidenskab og Erhverv - Gæsteforsker
International Development Research Group - Gæsteforsker

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Johan Fischer

johanf@ruc.dk

Institut for Samfundsvidenskab og Erhverv - Lektor
Global Political Sociology - Lektor
International Development Research Group - Lektor
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Daniel Fleming

fleming@ruc.dk

Institut for Samfundsvidenskab og Erhverv - Lektor Emeritus
Global Political Sociology - Lektor Emeritus
International Development Research Group - Lektor Emeritus

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Publikationer

171 Tidsskriftartikel
136 Bidrag til bog/antologi
42 Udgivelser på nettet - Net-publikation
38 Paper
216 Mere

A Postcolonial Critique of EU-Middle East Relations

Sen, S., 2021, (Accepteret/In press) Routledge Handbook of EU-Middle East Relations. Bouris, D., Huber, D. & Pace, M. (red.). Routledge

Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › peer review

Collateral Language: From 9/11 to Endless War

Collins, J. (red.) & Sen, S. (red.), aug. 2021, (Accepteret/In press) University of Georgia Press.

Publikation: Bog/antologi/afhandling/rapport › Antologi › Forskning › peer review

Walls

Sen, S., aug. 2021, (Accepteret/In press) Collateral Language: From 9/11 to Endless War. Collins, J. & Sen, S. (red.). University of Georgia Press

Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › peer review

Projekter

2 Ikke startet
11 Igangværende
15 Afsluttet

EthApparel: Decent Work and GVC-based Industrialization in Ethiopia

Whitfield, L.

01/02/2020 → 31/12/2025

Projekter: Projekt › Forskning

The emergence of the environmental state under authoritarianism (China, Vietnam and beyond)

Gverdtsiteli, G.

16/01/2020 → 15/01/2023

Projekter: Projekt › Forskning

EHTZ: Everyday Humanitarianism in Tanzania

Gissel, L. E., Kragelund, P., Richey, L. A., Bærendtsen, P., Hamudi, M., Justesen, M. K., Kweka, O., Mercer, C., Msoka, R., Mukangara, D., Mwamfupe, A. & Turner, S.

01/12/2019 → 01/12/2024

Projekter: Projekt › Forskning