In this episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast, IDS Fellow Amrita Saha interviews James Bacchus about his book: Trade Links: New Rules for a New World. James is a Distinguished University Professor of Global Affairs and Director of the Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity at the University of Central Florida.In the book and podcast, James argues that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) can survive and continue to succeed only if the trade links among WTO members are revitalised and reimagined. He explains how to bring the WTO into the twenty-first century, exploring the ways it can be utilised to combat future pandemics and climate change and advance sustainable development, all while continuing to foster free trade.About this podcastDiscussing the latest ideas shaping development.This podcast series explores books with ideas for positive social and environmental change. Each month we feature a book and an interview with its author. The discussions give an insight on the themes covered in the book, exploring the challenges and discoveries, and why the issues matter for progressive and sustainable development globally.Send your comments and episode suggestions to&nbsp;betweenthelines@ids.ac.uk

Trade Links: New Rules for a New World

In this episode of Between the Lines, IDS Director of Research, Peter Taylor interviews Anke Schwittay, Professor of Anthropology and Global Development at the University of Sussex. Anke is author of the book: Creative Universities: Reimagining Education for Global Challenges and Alternative Futures.In the book and podcast, Anke Schwittay argues that, in order to inspire and equip students to generate better responses to global challenges, we need a pedagogy that develops their imagination, creativity, emotional sensibilities and practical capabilities.Presenting concrete ideas for the reimagination of higher education, this podcast is an essential listen for both educators and students in any field studying global challenges.About the authorAnke Schwittay is Professor of Anthropology and Global Development at the University of Sussex. Further information about her work can be found at www.creativeuniversities.comAbout the interviewerPeter Taylor is Director of Research at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). Previously he was Director, Strategic Development, at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada where he was responsible for leading IDRC’s strategic planning processes.

Creative Universities: Reimagining education for global challenges and alternative futures

In this episode of Between the Lines, Priya Raghavan, Post-Doctoral Researcher in the IDS Governance Cluster, interviews Nicky Falkof, Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. Priya is part of the IDS project Sustaining Power for Women’s Rights, which works with women’s movements in South Asia to study and help develop strategies against backlash. 

Nicky is co-editor of the book: Intimacy and injury: In the wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa.

Through the lens of the #MeToo moment, this book and podcast tracks histories of feminist’s organising in both countries, while also revealing how newer strategies extended or limited these struggles. Intimacy and injury is a timely mapping of a shifting political field around gender-based violence in the global south. 
This book and podcast is essential reading and listening for all studying and researching gender issues, especially in relation to questions of gendered violence.

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Intimacy and injury: In the wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa

In this episode of Between the Lines, Michael Woolcock, Lead Social Scientist in the World Bank's Development Research Group, interviews Professor Mariz Tadros, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies.Mariz is editor of the book: What About Us? Global Perspectives on Redressing Religious Inequalities.Produced by the IDS-led&nbsp;Coalition Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID), the book&nbsp;explores how we can make religious equality a reality for those on the margins of society and politics.This book is about the individual and collective struggles of the religiously marginalised to be recognised and their inequalities, religious or otherwise, redressed. It is also about the efforts of civil society, governments, multilateral actors, and scholars to promote freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) whatever shape they take.This podcast is essential listening for all studying and researching religious inequalities.

What About Us? Global Perspectives on Redressing Religious Inequalities

Digital deception is the new face of information warfare. Social media has been weaponised by states and commercial entities alike, as bots and trolls proliferate and users are left to navigate an info-demic of fake news and disinformation. 

In this episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast, IDS Fellow Tony Roberts interviews Marc Jones, Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar. Marc is author of the book: ­­Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media. 

The book looks to unpick a global web of shadowy actors in the service of digital rights in the Middle East.


Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media

In this episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast, IDS Fellow Lars Otto Naess interviews Dr Neil McCulloch about his new book: Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies: The politics of saving the planet. 

In the podcast Neil discuss that fossil fuel subsidies are killing both people and the planet, because they encourage the excessive consumption of fossil fuels – which exacerbate pollution and climate change and waste huge sums that could be used far better.

Neil lays out a new agenda for action on fossil fuel subsidies, showing how a better understanding of the underlying political incentives can lead to more effective approaches to tackling this major global problem.

This podcast is essential listening for all studying and researching climate change, green transformations and climate justice.


Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies: The politics of saving the planet.

In this special episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast, Jigyasa Agarwal – a journalist, development practitioner and current master's student at IDS – interviews IDS Alumni Naimat Zafary. 

In this personal and powerful account, Naimat, talks about his journey to becoming a Master’s Student at IDS after he – along with his family – was evacuated from Kabul Airport on the 24 August 2021 when the Taliban took over.

Naimat talks about being offered a Chevening Scholarships to study at IDS, his journey to get out of Kabul Airport through chaotic scenes, and his time at IDS and his new home in the United Kingdom here in Sussex. 

Finally, Naimat talks about how education is key for Afghanistan and his hopes for the future.


From Afghanistan to studying development studies: A personal journey

In this special episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast, IDS Research Fellow Stephen Thompson and IDS Research Officer Mariah Cannon interview pioneering Researcher Robert Chambers.

For years, international development has traditionally been dominated by ‘experts’ in the global North telling ‘poor people’ in the global South how their lives could be improved. Robert’s writing and thinking, however revolutionised the discipline, inspiring both participatory processes and a more inclusive practice.

This podcast is released to coincide with publication of the recent archive collection of the&nbsp;IDS Bulletin&nbsp;which a celebration of Robert’s contribution to the journal over the last five decades.

In the interview Robert talks about the importance of workshops and talking to people to further research ideas; How his work has changed from focusing on rural development to more urban development. He also talks about his early time in Kenya in the late 1950’s and going back four years ago to see how much has changed with regards to technology and connectivity.

This interview is a fascinating insight into Robert’s career, his publishing legacy with the IDS Bulletin and a history lesson on how development research has evolved over the last 50 years.


Looking Back to Move Development Forward – with Robert Chambers

In this episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast Guardian environment correspondent Damien Gayle interviews IDS Research Fellows Lars Otto Naess and Amber Huff. In the interview Damien talks to Lars and Amber about their recent IDS Bulletin ‘Reframing Climate and Environmental Justice' which explores the ‘blind spots’ in dominant mainstream approaches to climate and environmental justice.

They argue that approaches share a tendency to place growth, not ecology, nor climate, and certainly not justice, at the heart of the international policy agenda.
This podcast is essential listening for all of those studying and working on environmental and climate concerns.


Reframing climate and environmental justice

Industrialisation and the growth of economies has been a long-standing research theme within development studies, but little is written about how industrialisation can transform ethnic groups within countries.

In this episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast, IDS Research Fellow Max Gallien, interviews Elliot D. Green about his book: Industrialisation and Assimilation: Understanding Ethnic Change in the Modern World.

This podcast explains how and why ethnicity changes across time, showing that, by altering the basis of economic production from land to labour and removing people from the rural life, industrialisation makes societies more ethnically homogenous.


Industrialization and Assimilation: Ethnic Change in the Modern World

Jeremy Allouche on BBC World 8/4/2015 - Recording of IDS Research Fellow on BBC World programme talking about global water scarcity

IDS researcher speaks on BBC World about global water scarcity

Interview at the launch of "Growth is Dead, Long Live Growth: the Quality of Economic Growth and Why It Matters" book launch with co-editors Hiroshi Kato, Vice President at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and NIcolas Meisel, Senior Economist at the Agence Française de Développement (AFD). The third co-editor, Lawrence Haddad, (former IDS Director and now at the International Food Policy Research Institute) was unable to interview.  The book was launched on 26 January 2015, at an event hosted by AFD. It is freely downloadable from: : https://www.ids.ac.uk/publication/growth-is-dead-long-live-growth-the-quality-of-economic-growth-and-why-it-matters

Hiroshi Kato (JICA) and Nicolas Meisel (AFD) on why quality of economic growth matters

Defining Challenges Accelerating Sustainability Seminar 15.07.2015

This seminar marks the launch of the Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice Edited Collection. Comprising 33 articles, photo essays, interviews and thought pieces with academics, activists and legal practitioners from over twenty countries in the world, the speakers will reflect on the complexity of the deceptively simple question posed by the Collection’s title: Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice: What’s Law Got to Do With It?

The increasing centrality of law and legal reform to the political strategies through which sexuality and gender justice are sought requires interrogation and careful scrutiny. As the contributions in this Collection show, the law is often an imperfect tool for achieving meaningful justice. Yet it is in these important and complex conversations that the scope for future action becomes tangible. In exploring different processes by which activists and other actors have worked for change, in interrogating what we mean when we talk about ‘solidarity’, and in questioning the usefulness and place of law, a picture of a complex but vibrant field of action for sexuality and gender justice begins to emerge.

From activists working with women in Assam’s tea gardens in India or youth lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender leaders in Vietnam, to lawyers fighting the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda or the criminalisation of cross-dressing in Malaysia, to academics carefully re-reading Islamic Sharia or scrutinizing the link between feminism and criminal Law in Latin America, or to researchers assessing HIV prevention programmes in South Africa, the Collection offers first-hand knowledge and experience of the complexities of gender, sexuality and social justice.

IDS Seminar: Gender and Sexuality - What’s law got to do with it?

Future of food: Burgers...or bugs event - Full panel discussion

How do we evaluate the impact of development funds? Is the impact of funders limited to the sum of the projects they fund? Or do they create important externalities?

Measuring the Impact of Development Funds – The Case of the Global Innovation 2nd June 2016

Professor James Ferguson from Stanford University delivers the inaugural IDS Annual Lecture titled 'Not Working: Rethinking Production and Distribution in the Jobless City'. It is a public lecture and all are welcome to attend.

For more details visit:
http://www.ids.ac.uk/events/ids-annual-lecture-with-james-ferguson  

IDS Annual Lecture 2016 with Professor James Ferguson, 5 July 2016

Precarious Lives : Food, Work and Care After the Global Food Crisis - Report Launch

Reducing inequalities is one of the biggest development challenges of our era, and a key focus of the current IDS strategy. The 2016 World Social Science Report on this theme, which IDS has co-led with the International  Social Science Council, was launched in September 2016, bringing together over 100 authors from around the world. 

This seminar share's the report's key findings and messages about the level of inequalities, their multiple and intersecting nature, their consequences and implications and what might be done about them - towards building pathways to a more equal world.

Challenging Inequalities: Pathways to a Just World

Thursday 19th January 2017, The Wellcome Collection, London

To introduce the event 'Unlocking investment in Africa's renewables: what are the binding constraints?', Dr. Ana Pueyo, Principal Invstigator summarised the project findings for 'Green Growth Diagnostics for Africa'.

Unlocking investment in Africa's renewables: what are the binding constraints? - Ana Pueyo

According to the World Bank, an estimated two billion people live in countries where development outcomes are affected by fragility, conflict, and violence. By 2030, the global share of people living in poverty in fragile or conflict-affected situations is estimated to reach 46 per cent.

Binational mobilization of the women's movement against war. Border Colombia-Ecuador. Credit: impermeableazul (Flickr)

This event took the launch of the special issue of Gender & Development, entitled Working on Gender Equality in Fragile Contexts, as a an opportunity to discuss and debate what a gendered lens onto fragility looks like.

Hosted by Mariz Tadros, IDS Research Fellow and co-leader of the Power and Popular Politics cluster, and will include the following speakers and contributors to the issue:

Dr Jo Rowlands, Senior Global Programme Adviser, Governance and Institutional Accountability, Oxfam GB

Dr Lyndsay McLean, Lecturer in Anthropology and International Development School of Global Studies, University of Sussex

Zarina Khan, Director, GAPS [Gender Action for Peace and Security]

Justina Demetriades, Gender, Conflict and Fragility Advisor, Oxfam GB

Working on Gender Equality in Fragile Contexts

Friday 31st March 2017, 12:00 to 13:00, IDS Convening Space

The Centre for Rising Powers in Development welcomed Osmany Porto de Oliveira, from the Federal University of São Paulo to discuss his new book, 'International Policy Diffusion and Participatory Budgeting' (recently published by Palgrave MacMillan).

John Gaventa, Director of Research here at IDS, participated as a discussant (towards the end of the recording) and Alex Shankland, Research Fellow, chaired the seminar.

You can find more information on the Centre for Rising Powers in Development on the IDS website (www.ids.ac.uk)

CRPD Seminar: Osmany Porto de Oliveira, International Policy Diffusion and Participatory Budgeting

Professor Jan Selby will deliver a Sussex Development Lecture to discuss claims that climate change was behind Syria's descent into war.

For proponents of the view that anthropogenic climate change will become a ‘threat multiplier’ for instability in the decades ahead, the Syrian civil war - now entering its seventh year - has become a recurring reference point, providing apparently compelling evidence that such conflict effects are already with us. According to this view, human-induced climatic change lay behind an extreme pre-civil war drought in Syria; this drought in turn caused large-scale migration; and this migration exacerbated the socio-economic stresses that underpinned Syria’s descent into war.

This lecture will interrogate these claims and offer a counter-interpretation - one with important implications both for understanding the conflict and security implications of climate change, and for the politics of development more broadly. 

About the Speaker
Jan Selby is Professor of International Relations, and Director of the Sussex Centre for Conflict and Security Research (SCSR). His research focuses on peace processes; environmental security; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; and International Relations theory.

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Did Climate Change Spark the Syrian Civil War?

Wednesday 21st June 2017, 10:00 to 11:15, IDS Room 221

The Centre for Rising Powers in Development welcomed Paulo Esteves, the Director of the BRICS Policy Center, and Geovana Zoccal, IDS Visiting Fellow and researcher at the BRICS Policy Center, for a discussion on 'The BRICS Effect: The Impact of South-South Cooperation in the Social Field of International Development Cooperation ' The seminar was chaired by Lidia Cabral, Research Fellow.

You can find more information on the Centre for Rising Powers in Development on the IDS website (www.ids.ac.uk)

CRPD Seminar: The BRICS Effect

In this seminar, the speakers will share their thinking on Participatory Accountability; how it connects to the surfacing and valuing other types of knowledge; and its potential as a more inclusive and transformative approach to monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals.

Speakers

    Chair: Jackie Shaw, IDS Fellow-Participation cluster whose expertise focuses on integrating visual methods into action research processes
    Jo Howard, IDS Fellow-Participation cluster working on social inclusion, citizenship building and processes of participation
    Joanna Wheeler, storycrafter, researcher, facilitator working for social justice 
    Erika Lopez Franco, IDS Research Officer-Participation cluster working on building networks of social change through participation and action research






Participatory Monitoring and Accountability

Three years since the launch of China's flagship outbound investment strategy, One Belt One Road (OBOR), many are left uncertain - what is OBOR and what exactly is China trying to achieve?

Based on study of trade-related potential for win-win development between China and Africa countries, Dr. Lauren Johnston will explain economic push factors underlying China's outbound investment agenda, and the attractiveness of selective 'Road' countries in Africa.

Arguing that the timeliness of OBOR investments for particular African economies could help underlie sustained economic development, she adds a call for Australia, the only OECD member of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA), to grasp related new challenges and opportunity.

What is China's Belt and Road Initiative, and Why is East Africa in Focus?

Advances in digital technology and artificial intelligence are transforming the future of work. Self-driving trucks are due to be tested on UK roads in 2018 and are already being piloted in the US where around 3 million people are employed as truck drivers, while in the Philippines 89 per cent of call centre jobs are now at risk from automation. Women are also likely to be disproportionately impacted by automation, and less likely to be shaping decisions in the tech sector where they are under-represented.

Technological advances represent significant opportunities both for the UK and the rest of world. With significant implications for the UK Government and the Global Goal to achieve decent work for all by 2030, this fringe meeting at the Labour Party Conference seeks to explore:

The opportunities and challenges that advances in digital technologies present for the work place and workers in the future, both at home and abroad?

How policies across UK government – industrial strategy, education and skills, international development and trade - can help promote prosperity across the UK as well as supporting economic development globally? 

Chair: Chi Onwurah MP

Speakers: Becky Faith, Digital and Technology Cluster, Institute of Development Studies; 

Jenni Lloyd, Purpose Lab. and Wired Sussex; 

Karen Cham, Academic Lead of the Brighton Digital Catapult Centre and Professor of Digital Transformation Design, University of Brighton.

Brighton and beyond - the future of decent work in a digital world

Most development thought is based upon the assumption that the uplifting of the world’s poor is to be carried out by elite actors (states, corporations, NGO’s) , rather than the poor themselves. This way of thinking, paradoxically, helps justify new ways of oppressing and exploiting the poor.

In this talk Professor Benjamin Selwyn from the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex, launches his book The Struggle for Development. He introduces the concept of labour-led development to illuminate, theoretically and empirically, ways in which the poor can be masters of their own development.

Book Launch: The Struggle for Development

Automation and digitisation are set to impact on many areas of work and livelihoods in developing countries and there is an urgent need for robust empirical work to address this issue. Participants at the 2017 Digital Development Summit, convened by IDS, called for research institutions to create cross-cutting partnerships across disciplines, geographies and sectors both to develop research and to play a brokering role in relation to solutions.

This seminar will be a space to discuss key issues and debates and explore the role IDS researchers might play in developing this research agenda. 



Automation, inequalities and the future of work

In this episode of Between the Lines, IDS Head of Knowledge, Impact and Policy, Kelly Shephard, talks to author and broadcaster, Helen Lewis about her book, Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights. 

In looking at the history of feminism and stories of rebel women, details are too often whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search for feel-good, inspirational heroines. In this book, Helen reclaims the history of feminism as a history of difficult women.


Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights - Helen Lewis

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