The Disciplinary Roots of Disagreement in Development Studies: Findings from a Global Survey of Scholars

By Ryan Briggs and Andy Sumner Development Studies is institutionally well established. The QS rankings identify over 150 universities with postgraduate Development Studies programmes across approximately 40 countries. Journals, institutes and scholarly associations have proliferated since the 1960s. Yet the field has long been characterised by unresolved tensions over what development is for,…