A new study by IDS and OTT claims the fields concerned with the theories and practice of knowledge translation are highly fragmented, too focused on the global North and fail to engage adequately with Southern perspectives on structural power, equity and evidence use. It promotes the central...
In this Sussex Development Lecture, cultural activist Ganesh Devy, best known for the People's Linguistic Survey of India, will discuss three democratic popular movements in India, which have impacted Anthropology, Sociolinguistics and History over the last three decades.
Access to water and decent sanitation service is a human right. However, its realisation has always been fraught with challenges which are likely to be magnified as structural injustices intersect with the impacts of the climate crisis. We see this, for instance, with extreme weather events...
A conversation with Prof Dirk-Jan Koch on his new book Foreign Aid and its Unintended Consequences. Watch now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJW_h2cktNs This seminar will take the form of a public conversation with Dirk-Jan Koch about his new book Foreign Aid and its Unintended...
This episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast examines how the 'giving' industry of development can be an extractive industry as well, through the use of domestic workers and the lack of rights that these workers often have. The podcast features an interview with Dinah Hannaford,...
This seminar shares fieldwork conducted in the Pandemic Preparedness Project, presenting findings related to different meanings and practices of preparedness, and contemporary dynamics related to ‘rethinking’ preparedness. We will give a spotlight to fieldwork in Uganda, where the idea...
This event will use the mid-point of the Sustainable Development Goals to take stock of global collaboration on development. Watch now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08wKHOYrf9I Join us for this important online event, taking place one week ahead of the UN SDG Summit in New York. The...
In this Centre for Social Protection international conference we will discuss and debate the past, present and future roles of social protection as a development policy agenda, at a time of global uncertainty and multiple crises. Themes include social protection policy processes, social...
Join IDS and ARISE for a lunchtime seminar and exhibition of ‘ARISE Kenya Photovoice’ and find out more about our work on health, wellbeing and accountability in the urban informal settlements of Nairobi. The exhibition includes a selection of images produced using Photovoice, a method...
In this episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast, IDS Research Fellow Max Gallien, interviews Elliot D. Green about his book: Industrialization and Assimilation: Understanding Ethnic Change in the Modern World. Listen now The book and podcast explains how and why ethnicity changes...
North American archives and special collections preserve and create access to cultural heritage materials often perpetuating a colonial and imperialist style of record keeping that can dehumanize underrepresented and marginalized individuals. Today progressive librarians and archivists...
'Dalit Defenders' is a documentary by young German Filmmakers showing the issues of Dalits, the so-called untouchables, who are outside of the caste system. Dalit women are at the bottom of this hierarchy and in rural areas the widespread image of a Dalit woman is one of weakness. But there are...
