Mandela was commonly revered as a father of the post-apartheid South African nation and his death on 5th December was felt across the world. Dan Hammett asks ‘What might the future hold for a post-Mandela nation?’

Tom Goodfellow, Lecturer in the Development and Urban Studies at the University of Sheffield

The International Development agenda needs to be reclaimed as a struggle for global justice, argues SIID Director Jean Grugel

SIID Research Associate Lorenza Fontana maps the hypotheses and debates on the 20% ‘decrease’ of the population self-identifying as indigenous in the latest census.

With less than 850 days to go until the 2015 development watershed, accountability mechanisms should be regarded as the most important part of the puzzle. Guest post by Savio Carvalho.

Dr Maite Conde of Brazil Institute, Kings College London and Dr Tariq Jazeel, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, blog for SIID. This blog was originally posted at Social Text