AAG Development Geographies Specialty Group

DGSG Members: We are actively seeking nominations for Director (3 positions) and student rep (2 positions) roles on the incoming Board (2025-27) to be chaired by Dr. Pronoy Rai. Please email a 200-word nomination by Feb 7 to [email protected]

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Happy Pride! The AAG and Specialty groups support and encourage diverse scholarship on gender, sexuality, and queerness within geography. The AAG strives to promote the exchange of ideas and foster an inclusive environment committed to justice and solidarity.

We wish you a very happy, peaceful, & healthy New Year, and look forward to welcoming our members at the AAG annual meeting in Hawaii in a few months (in person & virtually)!

The Development Geographies Speciality Group (DGSG) is pleased to announce the first of a planned series of working paper presentations for 2023-24, with Dr. Dhiren Borisa presenting his paper "Holding some ground on a greasy dancefloor: Decoloniality, Caste and South Asian Q***r Diaspora." The workshop will take place via Zoom on December 4, 2023, at 10 am ET / 3 pm UTC. Those wishing to participate should fill out this (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rrPR7rDg1tIyh22JdLnjNQq2PVyYRDDrCe1sNMEBH3w/viewform?edit_requested=true) brief form no later than Monday, November 27. You will be provided with a secure Zoom link and a draft of the paper at that time. Please contact DGSG Chair Dr. Jamey Essex ([email protected]) with any questions.

As deadlines for registration and abstract and session submission for the American Association of Geographers' 2024 Annual Meeting approach this fall, please consider the Development Geographies Specialty Group (DGSG) as a sponsor for your organized sessions. The DGSG does not require you to request or apply for sponsorship if your organized session fits the mandate and spirit of the group's statement of purpose:

The purpose of the Development Geographies Specialty Group (DGSG) is to provide a forum for research, education, and practice related to development studies and to developing areas. Our members are located around the world and engage in theoretical, applied, and critical work within the field of international development.

So if you are organizing a session for the 2024 AAG, and it fits this broad mandate, please consider including DGSG as a sponsor. This helps in highlighting sessions when the conference begins and in ensuring that those interested in the geographies of development can more quickly and effectively find related and relevant sessions in the conference program. If you have any questions or are unsure if your session fits the DGSG mandate for sponsorship, please send an email at [email protected] to inquire.

Colleagues: Your newly elected Board is delighted to connect with you here! Please look out for announcements regarding exciting events here in the near future. In the meanwhile, we are still looking to fill a vacant student rep position. If you're a student member of DGSG interested in serving, please contact Dr. Essex ([email protected]) directly (faculty colleagues, kindly encourage your students to apply!) We wish you a peaceful, relaxing, and rejuvenating summer!

Chair: Jamey Essex, Professor, University of Windsor

Vice Chair: Pronoy Rai, Associate Professor, Portland State University

Treasurer: Jennifer Langill, McGill University

Directors:
Kwame Adovor Tsikudo, Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson University
Paul O’Keefe, Assistant Teaching Professor, Rutgers University
Ryan Centner, Associate Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science

Student reps:
Stefan Chavez-Norgaard, Columbia University
Vacant

Folks may be interested in the latest Progress Report in Political Ecology
https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/QB84U5FBR4YETDYKTQDV/full

There's been much talk of decolonizing development, so here's my just-published paper on the issue. It's a wide-ranging theoretical piece that takes on higher education, pedagogy, praxis, international development & social justice. The abstract is below. The paper was published in the journal Human Geography: https://hugeog.com/decolonizing-development-education-and-the-pursuit-of-social-justice/?fbclid=IwAR2N0r70jJEji6kEN6pTFmoYpZO1koOgX0Td6btM0cbfMd4VNja33maCn78

Economics Nobel prize won by academics for tackling poverty Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer ‘dramatically improved’ practical solutions

Two year fixed term position in Development Studies available at Massey University, New Zealand. NB Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in NZ usually equals someone at least 8 years post-PhD.

Do you know any highly experienced academics who'd like to join the IDS Massey team for the next 2 years? We're looking for a Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor... please spread the word :) https://masseyunicareers.nga.net.nz/cp/