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Theory and practice in development research

  • Date18 September 2018

The keynote lecture, Development(alism) is dead! Long live development(alism)?

Prof David Simon FAcSS, Professor of Development Geography, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London delivered at the opening of the Swedish Development Research conference 2018 at the end of August 2018.

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