The aim of the department is to challenge classical and mainstream approaches to ‘development’ and to produce new transdisciplinary perspectives, theoretical concepts and methodological approaches to ‘development’ and global inequalities that go beyond disciplinary boundaries and a simple North-South divide. The complex subject ‘development’ is approached by integrating political, historical, economic, social, feminist and cultural perspectives that allow the analysis of inequalities, multifaceted processes of social change and transformation, and power relations on a global, regional and local level.

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Univie Teaching Award Sozialwissenschaften 2025

Die Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften schreibt 2025 erstmals den Teaching Award Sozialwissenschaften aus. Damit wird das Engagement in der Lehre...
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Leitfaden für Studienanfänger*innen SoSe 2025

+ Informationsveranstaltung - Vor Ort

 
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Ausschreibung /Job Call 1 PraeDoc/PhD

Open Position: 1 PraeDoc/PhD, 50% FTE, 12 months at the Department of Development Studies

Application Deadline: March 14, 2025

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Erasmus+ Hauptvergabephase 2025/26

Erasmus+ Start Hauptvergabephase 2025/26
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Veranstaltung mit der UN-Sonderbeauftragten Francesca Albanese an der Uni Wien

Kurzbericht von Helmut Krieger
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 Events

24.05.2024
 

Recordings of lectures on the war on Gaza

Recordings of the public lectures as part of the seminar "Palestine: Occupation, War, and Development Policy" (summer term 2024)
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07.02.2025
 

Programm IE Talks Sommersemester 2025
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12.03.2025
 

IE Talk 12.3.2025

Believing Globally: Islamist Internationalism Between the Cold War and Decolonization

Timothy Nunan (University of Regensburg)
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