FSDR@40 | #DevDays2026 Conference
Development in Ruins, Hope in the Cracks: A Time for Reckoning, Reclaiming, and Reawakening
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Working Group 1: Nurturing Hope and Resistance in the Ruins
Working Group 2: The Entanglement of Gen Z, Democracy and Geopolitics in the Global South
Working Group 3: Intergenerational Hope in Sparsely Populated Regions
Working Group 4: Sites of Ruins, Sites of Hope: (Re)Thinking Building Infrastructures in the Precarious Present
Working Group 5: Pedagogy of Resistance: Social Movements, Popular Education, and Transformative Learning
Working Group 6: Philosophical and Spiritual Practices for Sustainability Transformations: Cultivating Inner Wisdom, Embodying Change
Working Group 7: From Crises to Just Sustainable Futures: Reimagining the ‘Ecotopia’ in Socio-Ecological Systems
Working Group 8: Governing in the Ruins of Green Development: Neoliberal and/or Authoritarian Sustainability and the Cracks of Everyday Ecologies
Working Group 9: Extractivism, Recognition, and Responsibility: The Search for More Just Futures
Working Group 10: Planting Promises: Money, Myths, and the Realities of Global Tree Planting and Ecological Restoration
Working Group 11: Reawakening Consciousness: Pedagogies of Hope and Participatory Learning for Transformative Futures
Working Group 12: Methodology as a Tool for Resistance and Hope
Working Group 13: Supporting Environmental Defenders to Advance Environmental and Social Justice
Working Group 14: Re-imagining Futures from the Edges: Epistemologies and Experiences of Sustainability and Resistance Otherwise
Working Group 15: Shifting Foundations for Civic Space and Expanding Solidarity: Learning, Care, and Collective Agency Beyond Development
Working Group 16: Reimagining Political Participation in an Age of Geopolitics: Southern Experiences
Working Group 17: Reclaiming Metaphysical Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Ancestral Healing, and Regenerative Development in Southern Africa and the Global South
Working Group 18: Green-Digital Transition
Working Group 19: Student and Youth Solidarity Network
Working Group 20: DEVELOP2: The Academy Programme for Development Research
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