Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre

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The Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre is a major interdisciplinary centre for research, teaching and partnership for global development based at the University of York. The Centre is led by the Departments of Politics, Environment and Geography, and History, and works with partners across and beyond the University to develop innovative interdisciplinary people-focused solutions to address the urgent and structural challenges of global development.

The Centre understands global development as the complex of practices, policies and possibilities that encompass worldwide socio-economic and environmental transformation. Its emphasis on global development stems from the growing interconnectedness across the world and the emergence of socio-economic, environmental and health problems that are shared across all societies. It recognises that understandings of positive transformation are contested, that different actors have competing interests and investments and that violence and expropriation have been perpetrated on occasion in the name of development.

The Centre is particularly interested in social and environmental transformation that redresses the (im)balance of power in favour of justice and equality for marginalised communities. Accordingly, it takes seriously such redressal of power balances at the interfaces between global, national and local scales, seeking to understand and address structures of marginalisation. This requires communities of rich countries to change as much as those of middle- and low-income countries. Development is thus understood as a truly global project rather than one focused only on countries labelled as “developing”.

The Centre recognises that global development is most effectively addressed by working across academic disciplines and through inclusive partnerships. Therefore, the Centre seeks to define and attain alternative modes of development that are inclusive and sustainable. In addition, it aims to produce research which improves the lives of future generations everywhere and transforms development policy. In doing so, it seeks to equip students and researchers to become responsible and engaged global citizens, and collaborates with its global partners and local communities to create a just and sustainable world.

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