New Writing in Critical Development Studies

New Writing in Critical Development Studies brings together new critical and alternative development research by established and early career researchers from around the world. Foregrounding postdevelopment, decoloniality, economic alternatives, feminism, antiracism, pluriversality, and related concepts and approaches, the series provides a vehicle for emerging trends in critical development scholarship.

With many of its titles available open access from bloomsburycollections.com, the series is distinctive for its dedication to publishing new writers, particularly those based in the Global South, alongside more canonical voices. It is uniquely open to alternative forms of knowledge production, including photographs, drawings, figures, and other artwork. Books are academically rigorous, but also concise and readable, making them ideal for researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, as well as for students, practitioners, activists, and policymakers.

To propose a new book for the series, please contact Wendy Harcourt in the first instance at harcourt@iss.nl.


Published titles

Wendy Harcourt, Conundrums of Care: Feminist Entanglements in Critical Development Studies (Open access)


Forthcoming titles

Madeline Belfrage, Bodies in Dispute: Feminist Abortion Care and Global Reproductive Health Politics in Mexico (Open access)

Travor Murai, Civil Society and LGBTQ+ Rights in the Global South: Advocating for Men Who Have Sex with Men in Zimbabwe (Open access)

Agustina Solera, Decolonial Conversations in Andean Patagonia: Learning from Dwelling Otherwise

Matthew Wingfield, Mobilizing the Day Zero Drought in Cape Town: Crises and Climate Possibilities from Post-Apartheid South Africa (Open access)

Aisling Walsh, Healing as Justice: Radical Pedagogies from Guatemala (Open access)