One such premise related to my PhD fieldwork research is that the water/development nexus can only be properly understood when situated in the broader (national and global) political economy.
21 November 2016
The maker movement in the UK, and globally, has grown rapidly over recent years. Hundreds of maker spaces have popped up in cities, towns and on university campuses, potentially promising new forms of re-distributed and community-based manufacturing.
21 November 2016
Climate change and politics have jostled for attention – in the media, in development thinking, and in my own mind – during a dramatic last fortnight.
21 November 2016
A new book is just out – Ordered Estates: Welfare, Power and Maternalism on Zimbabwe’s (Once White) Highveld – by Andrew Hartnack is based on research carried out over the last decade on a number of Highveld farms, as well as with farm worker welfare NGOs.
21 November 2016
To mark 2016's Transgender Day of Remembrance, IDS's Stephen Wood and partners at Transgender Europe highlight the intersections of discrimination faced by the transgender community post Brexit and Trump.
18 November 2016
The new ESRC-DFID funded ‘Unequal Voices’ project was launched at the International Seminar on Accountability for Health Equity in Maputo, aiming to explore how accountability can create better health services for citizens everywhere.
16 November 2016
The mass persecution of slum dwellers in the Nigerian city of Lagos throws into doubt any hope of the New Urban Agenda leading us to a safer world.
16 November 2016
The Chinese Communist Party last week held its annual plenum in Beijing at which details of the country's 13th Five Year Plan, from 2016 to 2020, were set out for the first time.
15 November 2016
India has now joined the global family of nations that will implement the COP 21 Paris Deal to combat climate change. What does it signify and how was it achieved?
14 November 2016
Last week, I offered an overview of our findings on changing livelihoods among former farm workers from three former large-scale farms near Mvurwi in Mazowe district, and focused on broad survey findings, but what about individual's life stories and perspectives?
14 November 2016
This year, Brexit and the US elections have dramatically challenged expectations about global politics. With an apparent shift towards nationalism and exclusion, what alternative kinds of transformations could be found?
11 November 2016
Donald Trump’s victory at the US elections shocked the world. But with poverty and socio-economic inequalities at the heart of people’s decision to elect right wing politicians, isn’t it time those of us in development pay more attention to pure politics?
10 November 2016
