The Journal of Development Around the World (Vol. 1, 2024)
By presenting this knowledge in the form of accessible articles, students, researchers, and writers in this journal make a valuable contribution to debates and policymaking on many relevant development topics currently in the spotlight. Especially in these times of misinformation and fake news, knowledge of the local situations – and looking at reality from different perspectives – is of great importance. The various contributions – based on fieldwork in various parts of the world – help understand the link between an increasingly complex world and daily life – and the multiple perspectives that co-exist between regions and generations. This journal is an initiative taken at the International Development Studies (IDS) community of Utrecht University, which aims to continue to uphold those objectives of linking flows, transitions, and transformations in and between the local, regional, and global societies and generations that foster the development discourses.
The foundation was built over 15 years ago as a series of separate booklets and will now be published as an official open-access journal. Since the publication of the first booklet ‘Development Mosaics’ (2008), titles have varied from Exploring Development (2009) to Development Around the World (2010, 2011, 2013) and finally, Development in a Glance, a Journey through a Changing World (2014). It is an excellent moment to thank all the editors of earlier work, which have laid a firm foundation for the new journal: Vera Brok and Evianne Moret (2008)– Marloes van den Berg, Dennis van Buren, Lena Katzmarski, and Maarten van Schoten (2009); Ina Arnaoudova, Eileen Dyer, Elen Papaopoulou and Peter Verhagen (2010); Stephanie Anderson-Morales, Jolanda van Ginkel, Tim Daniel Krap and Renske van Milink (2011); Bregje van Stipdonk, Evans Kirigia and Murtah Read (2013); Lotte-Marie Brouwer, Sacha Handgraaf, Romy Santpoort and Margherita Scazza (2014).
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