Reconsidering Development, an open access, peer reviewed, and international e-journal published primarily by faculty and staff of the Comparative and International Development Education program in OLPD, has published a new issue. The journal aims to create an equitable space for dialogue concerning critical development issues as it relates to public health, economics, education, environmental studies, law, human rights and other fields.

The theme of the latest issue is “Self-knowledge and Advocacy.” Contributors engage with self-knowledge as a reflexive practice — as an approach to express their ‘embodied’ voices, and their diverse experiences by writing on policy, academic discourse, and their own shared memories. This issue also highlights the scholarship of students (who are often on the lower rungs of academic hierarchy) through their unique perspectives as contemporary scholars, in an attempt to recentre the self in the process of knowledge production:

• Dr. Emina Bužinkić—Stitching Memories: Collaborative (Re)search of Epistemic Wholeness
• Fouzia Sheikh, Michael Rich, Washington Galvão—Language of Instruction and Education Policies in Kenya
• Neela Nandyal—Schools, Land, and Power: Education and Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement
• Farah Baig—A ‘Gift’ of Neoliberalism: English as the Language of Instruction in the GCC

If you are interested in joining RDJ as an editor / editorial board member, please email editor@umn.edu.