Journals, News

Call for a Viewpoint Editor: International Development Planning Review

International Development Planning Review (IDPR), a peer-reviewed journal which provides an interdisciplinary platform for the critical study of development related practices, planning and policy in the global South, invites applications for the position of Viewpoint Editor.

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Featured in International Development Planning Review 45.1: Between the village and the city: the in-betweenness of rural young people in East Indonesia

The editors of International Development Planning Review (IDPR) have selected the following paper as the Featured Article in IDPR 45.1. This paper will be free to access for a limited time: 'Between the village and the city: the in-betweenness of rural young people in East Indonesia' by Jessica Clendenning.

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Featured in International Development Planning Review 44.4: Uncovering the individual/collective divide in planning responses to informal settlements as a structural cause of tenure insecurity in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

“The current pressures on Phnom Penh’s urban environment caused by neoliberalism and the rise of China as a global and economic political actor create an environment of dispossession and displacement for the urban poor where land title is not sufficient to guarantee tenure security.”- Johanna Brugman on her article 'Uncovering the individual/collective divide in planning responses to informal settlements as a structural cause of tenure insecurity in Phnom Penh, Cambodia', the latest Featured Article from IDPR. Available to read for free via Open Access.

Journals, Modern Languages

Introducing ‘Language and Education in the Lusophone Countries: Theory and Practice’: A Bilingual Modern Languages Open Special Collection

This month sees the launch of a new special collection on Modern Languages Open that brings together both academics and practitioners working on language and education in the Lusophone world and is bilingual in English and Portuguese, thus maximising opportunities for dissemination and impact and challenging the anglocentricity of academic scholarship. Here, editor Nicola Bermingham explains the research context and thinking that informs this collection of essays.