The Berkeley DevEng Journal is a collection of stories from a development engineering lens and/or through the perspectives of a development engineer!
Call For Contributions
We invite contributions from Berkeley’s DevEng community!
This is a space to share experience, research, and critical insights from the DevEng program and beyond, grounded in learnings from DevEng literature. We hope this blog becomes a space for students, staff, faculty, and alumni working in this emerging interdisciplinary field to engage with theories, fieldwork, methods, landscapes, stories, and most importantly – people who embody Development Engineering. This space gives us an opportunity to tell the other story, counter the dominant narrative – to decolonize development.
GUIDELINES
Some topic ideas include:
- A DevEng project or research you worked on.
- A review of literature from a DevEng class you took or the influence a particular DevEng course had on you.
- A current issue that you look at through a DevEng lens (frameworks you were introduced to in a DevEng class, theory you read, research or projects you worked on).
- Re-imagining futures through a decolonial development lens.
We understand that telling the other story can take different creative forms.
While we prioritize written articles and op-eds, we are open to other modes of communication including photo essays, story maps, counter mapping and visual art.
Schedule time with the editor if you would like to discuss and brainstorm these ideas.
Word limit between 750 & 1500 words.
Please include links to your sources in your text, rather than using a research-paper format, as seen in this example.
We encourage the inclusion of visuals using these ethical photography guidelines.
Check out this advice on Op-ed writing from Blum Center administrative officer Sam Goldman.
Berkeley’s DevEng Blog welcomes pieces that have not been published anywhere else.
If you wish to submit your article to a different publication, please include, “First published in Berkeley’s DevEng Blog on [Date].”
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to
Sam Goldman [samuelgoldman@berkeley.edu]
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
– Angela Davis
Berkeley
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The views expressed in Berkeley’s DevEng Blog are solely those of the authors and do not represent the views of University of California, Berkeley or the Development Engineering program.
