The ODID blog

Drawing on case studies from Latin America, a new special issue of Oxford Development Studies seeks to better understand the relationships between inequality and environmental sustainability.

A recent ODID research roundtable focused on citizenship. While we may think of citizenship as a legal status, as the rights and duties and relationships that people have to the state, it’s conceived of much more broadly, for example encompassing lobbying, allocation of rights and resources, resistance, and transformation. 

Carlos Vargas-Silva looks at the use of music by Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny to highlight issues surrounding gentrification, corruption, and the forced emigration of local populations.

The latest issue of Forced Migration Review explores how displacement response is financed and the implications for forcibly displaced people and host communities.

A grant from the CoPoK fund enabled DPhil student Theodor Borrmann to co-organise a workshop on how local communities can collectively tackle the problem of commercial fishing in the Orosa River, Peru

Curated by ODID alumna Julie Taylor, Entangled is a thought-provoking art exhibition at Oxford’s Rhodes House, examining memorialisation, decolonisation and legacies of violence in Southern Africa.

In the latest video in our series exploring how the multiple crises facing the world, from the pandemic to climate change, are transforming the issues we work on, Alexander Betts, Leopold Muller Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs, discusses the impact on refugee studies.