Fantastic to see us ranked 1st in the world for Development Studies again - for the 8th year in a row! What an achievement!

Many congratulations to Melissa Gatter on being awarded the 2023 Alixa Naff Prize for her book ‘Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Canp!

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Our special issue is out! Kaveri Medappa Mohammad Sajjad Hussain Gayatri Sussex Development🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Sussex Anthropology🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

Our intro to this forthcoming special issue is available open access! Kaveri Medappa Sussex Anthropology🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Sussex Development🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

What did the Covid-19 crisis reveal about labour rights and conditions for gig economy workers in India? New research from anthropologists Sussex Global🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 and University of Oxford in Journal of South Asian Development
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/5BZS2VZ… Geert De Neve

Here are some great pieces from the latest issue of the Journal of South Asian Development! ⁦Sage India⁩ ⁦⁦Sussex Development🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿⁩ journals.sagepub.com/toc/sad/18/2

Congratulations, Belen! Sussex Global🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Sussex Development🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Belen Martinez Anke Schwittay

Snapshots from our PhD social at Sussex Global🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿. Truly great to be among so many friends/colleagues. So lucky to have such an amazing doctoral community! Sussex IR🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Sussex Geography🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Sussex Anthropology🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Sussex Development🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Geert De Neve Julian Germann Alistair Markland Tanja Weis Maziar Tom Cowin

Some of you might find this Forum on Jonathan Parry’s ‘Classes of Labour’ of interest, in Dialectical Anthropology ⁦Springer Social Sciences⁩ #class #labour #India ⁦Sussex Global🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿⁩ ⁦Sussex Anthropology🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿⁩ ⁦Sussex Development🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿⁩ link.springer.com/journal/10624/…

Intro⁩ to upcoming special issue with ⁦Trent Brown⁩ : Skills, training and development: an introduction to the social life of skills in the global South. Open ⁦thirdworldq⁩ ⁦SussexGlobal⁩ ⁦Sussex Development🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿⁩ ⁦Sussex Anthropology🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿⁩ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

We're joined next Wednesday by Dr. Sanjeev Routray as he gives his talk on 'Who is a Construction Worker? Bureaucratic Arbitrariness, Entrepreneurial Unions, and Performances of Eligibility in Delhi'

Good piece! After Brexit, if Sunak really wants a ‘science superpower’, he must fix these three things | Devi Sridhar | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@DavidFarrugiaAU .Geert De Neve and I are putting the final touches on a special issue of Third World Quarterly on 'The Social Life of Skills' - several papers look into the question of the construction and contestation of skills. Some papers up already in 'online first' format.