by Global Development Institute | Dec 6, 2018 | Comment
Dr Constance Smith, Hallsworth Fellow in Social Anthropology, The University of Manchester ‘Those building materials are bad! See that steel, it is very small. The bricks are also weak, they could not build a tall building like this’. Standing amid the rubble of a...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 6, 2018 | Comment
GDI researcher Seth Schindler recently presented at The First General Assembly of the Alliance of Scientific Organizations (ANSO) in the Belt and Road Region, in Beijing, China. Created by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ANSO brings together researchers, policy...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 8, 2018 | Events, Uncategorized
Global Development Institute hosted a special screening of the Ugandan film Boda Boda Thieves at the Millennium Powerhouse in Moss Side, as part of the ESRC’s Festival of Social Sciences. A group of young people from Hulme and Moss Side, youth workers and those...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 1, 2018 | Comment
Professor Diana Mitlin, Managing Director, Global Development Institute After some years away from the water literature I’ve been struck by extent to which a language of neoliberalism has permeated the sector. There are significant costs to this use of language....
by Global Development Institute | Oct 30, 2018 | Comment, Events
Nicola Banks, Lecturer in Urban Development, Global Development Institute As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, we’ll be holding a film screening followed by a learning exchange and discussion with youth groups in Manchester to see what can be learnt across...
