Best MA student essays from the class of 2024

The latest An Exercise in Worldmaking 2023-2024 is released
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An Exercise in Worldmaking is a collection of best MA student essays written, selected and edited by the students

First published in 2006, each subsequent MA batch has produced an edition, reflecting the insights and perspectives gained by MA students at ISS during their 15 months of study.

The essays illustrate how a diverse student body, representing over fifty countries and a host of professional and educational backgrounds, can contest, construct and redefine the notion of development; thus maintaining the contemporary social, political and economic relevance of development theory and practice. Readers can also enjoy previous versions of An Exercise in Worldmaking, available through Issuu.

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