“I’m a ‘privileged’ researcher from a Global North university”: When reflexivity becomes performative (and why that matters)
by Anuradha Ganapathy, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester “Development” as a concept and field of study is far from being free of its colonial, patriarchal, and hierarchical legacies. In this context, questions of who researches and who is being...
Participate in our upcoming communities of practice
This year, GDI’s Natalie Cunningham (Senior Lecturer in Leadership for Development) will be running a series of communities of practice (CoPs) designed to support development practitioners (and those interested in pursuing a career in development) in building...
Affordable Housing, Financialization and Urban Statecraft
A lecture by Tom Gillespie at Cornell AAP explores the scale of the 21st-century urban housing challenge. Abstract The 21st-century urban housing challenge has prompted state actors in both the Global North and South to adopt increasingly interventionist approaches to...