Higher Education · North Holland
The Governance and Inclusive Development (GID) group is a research group within the Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Our vision is to critically engage with, rigorously examine and constructively challenge prevailing patterns and understandings of “development” (as a contested notion) and injustice through our research, teaching and outreach activities, in order to contribute to fostering a more fair, just and sustainable world. The global development context is continuously changing. Transformations in social, political, environmental, economic, financial, technological, educational and cultural landscapes contribute to persisting, and oftentimes deepening, socio-ecological injustices and inequalities between and within different population groups, from global to local scales. Since its inception in the 1990s, GID has continuously responded to such transformations through our staff expertise and capacities. We scrutinize the underlying assumptions and premises that drive these transformations from a diversified perspective, questioning whose knowledge counts and why, and how certain knowledges gain prominence while others are made invisible with implications for debates, policies and practices. Our work focuses on governance and inclusive development within and across the Global South and North, as well as dynamic North-South and South-South relations.