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Leave no-one behind: Building sustainable inclusion
This lecture is part of the Sussex Development Lecture series: Achieving the SDGs: Synergies and Tensions. Since 2012 researchers from...
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How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and Development Economics
How lives and livelihoods change over time and the forces behind those changes is key to understanding Development Economics and...
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3 October 2018
New podcast series: ‘between the lines’ – Exploring books for a better world
IDS is excited to announce the launch of a new podcast series called ‘between the lines’ – exploring books for a better...
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On Babies and Bathwater: Decolonising International Development Studies
In this Sussex Development Lecture, Dr. Rutazibwa offers a conversation between personal experiences, reflections and decolonial scholarship to reflect on the fundamental, practical, institutional and epistemological implications of recognising the coloniality in the international development project.
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Misunderstanding Modernity: The Social Scientific Neglect of Colonialism
Professor Gurminder K Bhambra will address our commonly held misunderstandings of modernity and discuss how an adequate address of colonialism would require us to rethink our standard assumptions of the modern world and disciplinary responses to it.
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Shami Chakrabarti: On Liberty
On 11 September 2001, our world changed. The West's response to 9/11 has morphed into a period of exception. Governments have decided that the rule of law and human rights are often too costly.
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Inequality – What can be done?
The Lecture proposes ambitious new policies in a range of areas: technology, employment, social security, the sharing of capital, and taxation. It seeks to defend these proposals against the common arguments: that intervention will shrink the economy, that globalization makes action impossible, and that new policies cannot be afforded.
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Beyond the traditional humanitarian aid model
In this Sussex Development Lecture Thea Hilhorst will discuss these paradigms and the different images they evoke about crises, local institutions and the recipients of aid.
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Humanitarianism under stress – meeting the challenge, strengthening the architecture and reviving the rules
The international humanitarian system plays a critical role in development – but the system is operating under unprecedented stress. Armed conflict, climate risk, and insecurity have contributed to record levels of displacement.
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The Humanitarian Border: Aid and Development as tools to prevent migration
In recent years crisis thinking associated with international migration has motivated a political re-evaluation of well supported elements of the relationship between migration and development.