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I work in the School of East Asian Studies. My research focuses on post-development pathways within countries undergoing rapid demographic transitions; in particular the example of Japan as the world's first 'successfully' developed developing country, and the lessons of its ageing and depopulation for other societies about to encounter these transitions. I have developed the concept of a 'depopulation dividend' which turns population reduction on its head and, instead of assuming that it is a problem or crisis, that it might be an opportunity to rethink the growth-at-all-costs dynamic and make some socio-environmental gains. Here is a short summary of the research:
'Depopulation Dividend' for a Shrinking Japan - Matanle, P., AsiaGlobal Online, 2018: https://www.asiaglobalonline.hku.hk/depopulation-japan-aging-sustainability/

So, three readings for this:
1. Rostow, W.W. (1998) The Great Population Spike and After: Reflections on the 21st Century. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2. Bloom, D.E., Canning, D., and Sevilla, J. (2003) The Demographic Dividend: A New Perspective on the Economic Consequences of Population Change. Santa Monica: Rand Corporation.
3. Ghosh, Amitav. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.

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I am a lecturer at the Management School. My main area of interest is management, politics and social change, focusing in particular on whether and how management theory and practice can contribute to making organisations, institutions and societies more just, equitable and sustainable. Starting from this broad interest, my research focuses predominantly (but not exclusively) on the non-profit sector in the Global South, and on exploring how civil society organisations can contribute to social justice and emancipatory transformation.

I am also interested in research on qualitative and critical research methodologies and processes and strategies to decolonize research and knowledge.

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One of the books that have certainly shaped my understanding of alternative development / development alternatives is “Maldevelopment. Anatomy of a global failure” (1990) by Samir Amin - and more in general all Amin’s writings.

Looking more specifically at NGOs/CSOs - one of my key research interests -, a key text for me is  Silence in NGO Discourse: The Role and Future of NGOs in Africa (2007) , by Issa Shivji.

Finally, the combination of essays in "Feminism, Postmodernism and Development” (1995) - and their competing understandings of postmodernism and post-development - has helped me to engage with some key contradictions and dilemmas of ‘alternative', ‘anti-modern’ perspectives on development.

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1) My first encounter was at ODI 'doing development differently' e.g. Wild et al. (2015) Adapting Development: Improving Services to the Poor. ODI report. https://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/9437.pdf
2) In my PhD I have been exploring theoretical alternatives to 'West knows best' e.g. Connell, R. (2007). Southern theory: The global dynamics of knowledge in social science. Malden, MA: Polity.
3) I also found this interesting: Decoteau (2015) Hybrid Habitus: Toward a Post-Colonial Theory of Practice. In Postcolonial Sociology: 263-293.

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I am a PhD researcher in Geography looking at the practices of frontline (government) actors in Malawi's rural water sector. I previously worked in applied/policy research at the Overseas Development Institute. I see my PhD as an opportunity to question dominant narratives and approaches in the development sector, particularly with respect to water governance. I remain keen to work with policy-makers and practitioners.

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I'm a lecturer in the department of Urban Studies and Planning.
I'm generally interested in exploring how the material, the symbolic and the discursive interlock in the creation and contestation of hegemony, and more specifically, the generation and contestation of a consensus around a politics of growth and competitiveness.

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The following texts are on themes that reflect my research interests:
1.       Bob Jessop & Ngai-Ling Sum (2016) What is critical?, Critical Policy Studies, 10:1, 105-109
2.       Francesca Polletta & and James M. Jasper (2001) Collective Identity and Social Movements, Annual Review of Sociology, 2001. 27:283–305

3.       Nancy Fraser (2014) Can society be commodities all the way down? Post-Polanyian reflections on capitalist crisis, Economy and Society, 43:4, 541-558

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Three texts:
1) This one changed my life - Chambers, R., A. Pacey and L. A. Thrupp (eds.) (1989) Farmer First: Farmer innovation and agricultural research, London: ITP.
2) This one saved it - Pretty, J. N., I. Guijt, J. Thompson, et al. (1995) Participatory Learning and Action: A trainer's guide, London: IIED
3) I don't have any academic inspirations in this field...yet.

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I'm a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, but I used to be a development practitioner - a forester with some good and bad experiences of different models of development.

I'm generally interested in governance, in particular stakeholder and participatory processes, and why good ideas don't "stick". I'm just starting involvement in a project aiming to create Strategic Plans for twinned town+refugee camp settlements in Jordan. The 'alternatives' I'm interested in are about doing development differently - more politically, inclusively and (maybe) transformatively.

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1) I would like to propose one reading around alternatives to development and feminism: Pensar desde el feminismo: Críticas y alternativas al desarrollo (2011). In book: Más allá del desarrollo. Written by Abya Yala.
2) I would also like to include this book: Alternatives-in-a-World-of-Crisis (2018)

ISBN: 9789978198513
Link here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324970979_Alternatives-in-a-World-of-Crisis

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I'm a postdoc at the Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID).

My research explores how the discourse of innovation is incorporated into the development sector and the implications of a narrow understanding of innovation in the elaboration and implementation of innovation policy in the global South. I am exploring how we can reimagine how innovation is conceptualise by adopting the notion of Buen Vivir as the lenses from which to understand innovation.

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Here are three texts which have influenced my thinking on "Development Alternatives":
1) Escobar, A. (2017) Designs for the Pluriverse. Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds. Durham: Duke University Press.
2) Quijano, A. (2000) ‘Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America’, Nepantla: Views from South 1(3): 533-580.
3) Walsh, C. (2008) ‘Interculturalidad, plurinacionalidad y decolonialidad: las insurgencies politico-epistemicas de refundar el Estado’, Tabula Rasa 9: 131-152.

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I'm a Lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

I am interested in how the notion of "Buen Vivir/ Vivir Bien" entered into legal discourse in Bolivia and Ecuador. I am also interested in how "Buen Vivir/ Vivir Bien" is used by different stakeholders in cities, as urban policy and planning category as well as a basis for everyday struggles around the right to the city.