Scaling up participation: conference
Professor Diana Mitlin, Professor of Global Urbanism, Global Development Institute How can participation be scaled up to make an impact that has relevance at the scale required? What are the challenges that must be tackled in terms of exclusion of those who have the...
From the Classroom to Cape Town, HRD’s Fieldwork Visits to South Africa
Dr Rory Stanton, Programme Co-Director, MSc in Human Resource Development (International Development) “Welcome to the Mother City” is the slogan that greets you as you make your way through Cape Town International Airport upon arrival. For those of us who have been...
International development’s had its time
Dr Rory Horner, Senior Lecturer in Globalisation and Political Economy and ESRC Future Research Leader, Global Development Institute Often associated with a North-South binary, the term ‘international development’ seems increasingly inappropriate for encompassing the...
GDI Lecture: Agrarian crises, institutional innovation and gender with Bina Agarwal
Listen or watch Professor Bina Agarwal, Global Development Institute, discuss Agrarian crises, institutional innovation and gender: Can group farming provide an answer? You can subscribe to the podcast on: Spotify iTunes Stitcher Soundcloud Castbox RSS tunein Pocket...
Debating the new geographies of development: the 2019 Development and Change Forum Issue
Dr Rory Horner and Professor David Hulme Since 1990 the global map of development has shifted from one of “divergence, big time” to “converging divergence”. This involves some converging in development indicators between North and South in aggregate, alongside...
BAPA+40: Learning from the Global South
One word to describe the current state of multilateralism is “contested”. Within existing international institutions, like the United Nations, debates on global governance reform have been politicised to a point of gridlock. New multilateral institutions, like the...
Fieldwork in Cape Town South Africa: our experience Development Informatics group 2019
Jody-kay Jackson (ICTs for Development MSc) & Raghav Mutneja (Management and Information Systems: Change and Development MSc) Fieldwork is an essential part of the Management and Information Systems: Change and Development and ICTs for Development master’s...
GDI Lecture: Property, institutions, and social stratification in Africa with Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Listen or watch Associate Professor Franklin Obeng-Odoom, University of Helsinki, discuss his upcoming book on property, institutions, and social stratification in Africa. Listen or watch to the lecture in full below. You can subscribe to the podcast on: Spotify...