Welcome to the Manchester Migration Lab!
On Monday 5th December the University Of Manchester hosted it’s first Manchester Migration Lab workshop to identify and discuss the range and depth of work on migration being carried out by colleagues across a range of schools and institutes.
Following an in-depth scanning of current university research on migration 50 members of the staff and 20 PhD students were identified and invited to this session with convenors
At the first ever workshop, four key concepts and ideas were selected for discussion:
- Borders
- Journeys
- Agency
- Home
‘The Infiltrator’ versus ‘The Refugee’
GDI Lecture Series: Bangladesh Confronts Climate Change with David Hulme, Manoj Roy and Joseph Hanlon
On Wednesday, 7 December, Global Development Institute Executive Director, Professor David Hulme, Dr Manoj Roy (Lancaster University) and Dr Joseph Hanlon (Open University) discussed their new book: Bangladesh Confronts Climate Change. You can find the video and podcast from the event below and the book is available to purchase here.
The power of the sewing machine: A masterclass in building alliances for workers’ rights and sustainability in global production networks
By Aarti Krishnan and Corinna Braun-Munzinger, PhD researchers at the Global Development Institute
The ESRC project on ‘Rising Powers, Labour Standards and the Governance of Global Production Networks’ and Global Production Networks, Trade and Labour research group at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, on 14 October 2016 hosted a talk by Karamat Ali, executive director of the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER).
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Strange but possible: Has increased equality in the US played a role in Trump’s win?
Professor David Hulme, Executive Director, Global Development Institute
Interesting and alarming food for thought? And, yes. You read correctly. Could equality (not inequality and alienation) be the true crux of the matter when it comes to understanding the election of a multi-billionaire, member of the global elite to the White House?
In a refreshing and very alternative argument to the election post mortems of recent weeks, Nora Lustig – an economics professor and Director of the Commitment to Equity Institute at Tulane University – has suggested that perhaps more equality in three key dimensions may be feeding a greater sense of unfairness, indignation, and impotence than the increase in income and wealth inequality in the US.
We’re hiring Research Associates
We’re looking for a number of research associates to join the Global Development Institute. We have big ambitions and to make them happen, we need the best research and teaching staff. If you have an outstanding track record and a commitment to social justice, then please come and join us.
Bina Agarwal at the Institute of Development Studies
Professor Bina Agarwal recently spoke at the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University. She discussed the themes from Gender Challenges a three volume publication of essays from over the past 30 years. Professor Agarwal was joined by Professor Melissa Leach, IDS Director to discuss the key and emerging challenges to women empowerment will be. You can watch the discussion in full below.
Completing the AIDS shift? Taming a killer illness
Listen | Is the Islamic State Islamic? An Analysis of its Magazine, Dabiq with Professor Tim Jacoby
The first issue of Dabiq appeared in July 2014, the week after the Islamic State (ad-Dawlah al-Islamiyah – or simply ad-Dawlah to its citizens (Weiss and Hassan, 2015: xi)) captured Syria’s largest oilfield, with the announcement it had re-established the khilafah with the intention of returning Muslims’ ‘dignity, might, rights, and leadership’ (page 7). Since then, 14 more editions have followed in Spanish, German, Russian as well as English, constituting a corpus of 942 pages and over 400,000 words. A number of analyses of its content have now appeared. Some commentators, such as Celine Marie Novenario (2016), have, for instance, compared Dabiq to other militant magazines, while Brandon Colas (forthcoming) and Haroro Ingram (forthcoming) have considered respectively how it fosters its various potential audiences and a sense of in-group identity. While its “religious” content has generally been noted in these (as well as in the burgeoning literature on ad-Dawlah generally (Alexander and Alexander 2015; Gerges (2016); Stern and Berger (2015) etc.)), there are currently no studies seeking to understand Dabiq’s particular approach to Islamic exegeses and how this might connect with wider debates over the relationship between faith and violence. I seek to address this by focusing on three areas of Dabiq’s content (1) its reading of the Qur’an (2) its use of classical scholarship and (3) its engagement with contemporary readings of Islam.
GDI Advent Calendar
Throughout the month of December we will be running a GDI Advent Calendar to highlight some of the great work carried out by our academics in 2016. Each day we will bring you a different journal article, working paper or book by our researchers.
At the Global Development Institute we have over 45 academics covering a vast array of research areas. Throughout December we will highlight research covering a range of topics including climate change, migration, institutions and the use of technology in development.
Keep an eye on our Facebook and Twitter accounts for the latest piece of research or check back here where we will be compiling them all.