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SOAS Development for Transformation Centre
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SOAS Development for Transformation Centre
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SOAS DevTraC (SOAS Development for Transformation Centre) is located in the Department of Development Studies.
SOAS, University of London Katılım Mart 2023
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🚨Call for applications! 🚨
Young scholars, don’t miss the #INET-#YSI workshop at organised by @SOAS students:
"Big Problems, New Solutions: Reimagining Economic Policy"
With stellar line-up of experts:
🔹 @Jayati1609 (UMass Amherst)
🔹 Boitumelo Molete(Trade Unionist, South Africa)
🔹 @JoseA_Ocampo (Columbia University)
🔹 @DanielaGabor (SOAS Development Studies Department)
🔹 Luiz Vieira (Bretton Woods Project)
🗓️ Registration deadline: 22 September 2024
📲 Scan the QR code for details!
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📌 ‘New and additional’: why funding climate finance from aid budgets is a problem. Mike Jennings @mikejennings101 argues that donors have failed to provide the promised new and additional funding, which risks undermining action on climate and poverty.
Read the full blog here⬇️
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#ClimateFinance #PovertyAction #ClimateChange #DevelopmentStudies #AidFunding #GlobalDevelopment #SustainableFuture #SOAS
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📢 Exciting News! Sara Stevano's latest publication on the devaluation of essential work is now available! Don’t miss out on this excellent contribution to the ongoing discussion.
Check it out⤵️
@SOASEconomics @SOAS #socialreproduction @ilo
Sara Stevano@SaraStevano
Here is my assessment of the ILO 2023 report on 'The value of essential work': onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/de… The report centres the problem of devaluation of essential work and provides a wealth of useful data. Yet, it fails to recognise the contested nature of the essential work 1/2
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Interested in the future of energy in #Africa? Check out this insightful blog!
It explores energy transition from a developmental and production-oriented perspective.
#energytranstion #development #GreenEnergy
SOAS Economics@SOASEconomics
📌 SOAS Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation ( @csst_soas ) held its first bi-annual conference: “Powering Production: A Developmental Energy Transition for Africa.” 🌍 Read the blog ⬇️ tinyurl.com/2p7kc6n3
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Read this fantastic article featuring our colleague @TobiasFranz_ !
⬇️@SOAS @SOASEconomics @tommytanner @nomhossain @YannisDafermos
LIDC@LIDC_UK
The "finance-extraction-transitions nexus" examines the #GreenTransition & its impact on #Capitalism. It shows how resource extraction & finance uncover power dynamics & guides sustainable energy policies. (via @EADI ft. Tobias Franz @SOASEconomics) ow.ly/ioJu50SSOPF
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📌 Check out Peter Mollinga and Andrea Rizzi’s recent research paper “Blooming activism in a drying land: Water justice movements along river Tigris in Iraq”
Read full paper here⬇️ shorturl.at/pRD8d
#WaterJustice #Water #GrassrootsMovements #Iraq #Kurdistan
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Check out excellent articles on the new special issue:
“Social Reproduction of Agrarian Change: Feminist Political Economy and Rural Transformations in the Global South”
Read all articles here⬇️
@SOAS @estariade @nomhossain @hannahbargawi @FeministOnMarx @SaraStevano @DzodziTsikata
Alessandra Mezzadri@FeministOnMarx
Thrilled our SI on the Social Reproduction of @AgrarianChange, edited with @SaraStevano @lyn_ossome, @hannahbargawi is out! Our intro here & all amazing articles below (🧵1/12) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo… @SOASDevelopment @SOASEconomics @IAFFE
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🎥Listen to our colleague @nomhossain expressing concerns regarding the reprisal attacks in the wake of the PM’s resignation:
Bangladesh “cannot afford” to repeat authoritarian rule!
@SOAS @SOAS_SAI @estariade @lhammondsoas @FeministOnMarx @sndeall @PoMoGandhi @tommytanner
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Naomi Hossain, a professor of development studies at SOAS University of London, worries about reprisal attacks and a possible return to authoritarian rule in Bangladesh following the resignation of PM Sheikh Hasina.
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"Pick your weapon: Reflections on the radical black woman and the black liberation struggle"
Excellent blog by @SOAS Student @megaamorgan, selected as one of the top entries in the Feminist Political Economy of Development course👉soas.ac.uk/study/find-cou…
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@DzodziTsikata
SOAS Development Studies@SOASDevelopment
Megan Morgan asks: "How will I embody the Black radical woman? What weapon will I pick up to join the ongoing armed resistance? Will it be the pen or will I exercise the power of the tongue?" 1/ Read more: soas.ac.uk/about/blog/pic… @Tilley101 @FeministOnMarx @soasdevtrac @SOAS
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Bangladesh is seeing the deadliest crackdown by the government against protesters in the country. Sign the petition demanding the government of Bangladesh to end this repression now: amnesty.org/en/petition/ba… amnesty.org/en/petition/ba…
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ICYMI - Watch @SOASDevelopment's @nomhossain sharing her perspective on 🇧🇩's ongoing crisis, with the @BBCNews !
🎥 link⬇️
SOAS Press Office@SOASpress
Bangladesh: student protests in the capital Dhaka and elsewhere turned deadly against demonstrators - Naomi Hossain speaks to the @BBCNews @nomhossain @SOASDevelopment youtube.com/watch?si=jicoL…
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Read @valenfrassa_'s feminist political economy analysis of 'Poor Things': "revolutionary in its fearless portrayal of unapologetic feminine sexual desire" even if it fails to challenge social norms, "personally and intellectually liberating" soas.ac.uk/about/blog/wha…
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📣 @SOASDevelopment & @SOASEconomics conceived the theme for #DSA2024 and within that overall theme, the conference had three strands, incl. reproduction and production – highlighted by @Jimiadesina
Read more here ⤵️
buff.ly/4bSn5g7
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📌 @SOAS Economist Dr Miguel Niño-Zarazúa explores the complex effects of clientelism on economic development, State capacity, and governance in the context of rising populism and autocracies.
Read the blog ⬇️
tinyurl.com/554cdp8d
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Call for Kigali workshop papers - "Intergenerational Justice in Africa" - hosted by @UR_CASS @SOASPolitics & funded by @LeverhulmeTrust. 3 themes: conflict, care & climate. Hybrid workshop, 5-6 Sept 2024. Applications by 19 July. Some funding available. soas.ac.uk/about/news/cal…
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Congrats @DzodziTsikata and collaborators on @FemAfrica’s latest issue:
📌“Africa’s 21st Century Feminist Struggles: Terrains, Formations and Politics”
Read full journal⬇️
shorturl.at/BIpI2
@SOAS @FeministOnMarx @SaraStevano @estariade @nomhossain @ShirinMRai @SOASDevTraC
Dzodzi Tsikata@DzodziTsikata
Pleased and proud that Feminist Africa 5:1 is now published. Congratulations to all the contributors. Please share widely.@adomakoampofo @adwoa_gyapong @FemAfrica @SouthFeministas @SOASDevelopment @GETSPA_IAS @BernardineEvari @Essenbi @NJOAgyemang feministafrica.net/latest-issue/
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@SOAS is delighted to have hosted #DSA2024 last week. It is an enormous privilege, allowing us to develop the theme around which the presentations, lectures and discussions revolve. Thank all who helped make this event a success!
Read the news story⬇️
shorturl.at/QFjmk
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🌍Althea Rivas joins fellow colleagues @SOASDevelopment Angela Haynes & @HelinaShebeshe to co-convene panel PE04 today from 11:00-12:30 in Room B305. Don't miss this insightful discussion!
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Day 3 of #DSA2024 starts off w/ @CramerChristoph introducing Jimi Adesina, keynote speaker.
And an amazing lineup of @SOAS speakers: Althea-Maria Rivas, Helina Shebeshe, Angela Haynes, @FeministOnMarx @nomhossain Fathimah Fildzah Izzati, Hannah Bennet @RAxelby @_Emma_Crewe!
Alessandra Mezzadri@FeministOnMarx
Jimi Adesina from University of South Africa gives the third keynote #DSA2024 @SOAS on Re-reading the right to development 🔥@SOASDevelopment @SOASEconomics
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