International Development and Social Justice Research Cluster

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The International Development and Social Justice Research Cluster connects with two of the college's five research themes, social justice and sustainability. The cluster's research investigates the dynamics between social justice and international development. The cluster is interested in the contradictory, uneven and unequal impacts of economic development on society and culture. The Cluster asks how people resist, leverage and engage with the changes that development produces at various scales from the village to the global city. In what ways does development produce new forms of mobility, socially and spatially? How does development re-shape social structures like gender, race, generation and class? How can academic research engage with activism and solidarity to further social justice? Funded projects include work on networks of care for refugees and asylum seekers in London and on livelihoods in Brazil's informal economy.

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Birkbeck, University of London
London