Global Development Institute podcast
We’re the Global Development Institute at The University of Manchester: where critical thinking meets social justice. Each episode we will bring you the latest thinking, insights and debate in development studies.
Episodes
106 episodes
In Conversation: Joan Martínez-Alier on Environmentalism
In this episode, GDI's Armando Caroca and Rose Pritchard speak with Joan Martínez-Alier, an economist and emeritus professor of economics and senior researcher at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.Throughout his career, Joa...
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Dr Portia Roelofs & Anna Thurlbeck on Good Governance in Nigeria
In this episode, GDI PhD researcher Anna Thurlbeck speaks with Dr Portia Roelofs, lecturer in politics at Kings College London.Dr Roelofs provides an unmissable deep dive into th...
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Sustainable Forest Transitions: In conversation with Dr Pooja Choksi
In this episode, PhD researcher Mariana C. Hernandez-Montilla continues a new series of podcasts linked to the GDI's
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Lwanga Bwalya of Play it Forward Zambia speaks with One World Together
In this episode, One World Together's co-founder Nicola Banks and Community Space Development Lead Asma Bham speak with one of their community partners: Lwanga Bwalya of Play it Forward Zambia.Lwanga dives into the complexities of navig...
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Panel Discussion: Sustainable Forest Transitions Project Launch
Following the launch of the Sustainable Forest Transitions project at Manchester Museum on the 6th March 2024, we bring you a new episode featuring the event's opening remarks and the incredible panel discussion that took place.In this ...
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In Conversation: Kiya Gezahegne + Oliver Bakewell on Migration
Oliver Bakewell, Impact Director at GDI, discusses migration practices along the Ethiopia-Sudan border with Kiya Gezahegne, an ethnographic researcher from the University of Addis Ababa. Kiya and Oliver have worked togethe...
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Sustainable Forest Transitions: In conversation with Dr Sreeja Jaiswal
In this episode, PhD researcher Sandy Nofyanza kicks off a new series of podcasts linked to the GDI's Sustainable Fores...
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Cash Transfers for Poverty Reduction | Francisco V Ayala
In this episode, Francisco V. Ayala discusses his new book, Cash Transfers for Poverty Re...
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In Conversation: Jon Alexander with Nicola Banks and Chibwe Masabo Henry
Selim Iyidirli hosts a conversation around One World Together and its model for Global Citizenship with Jon Alexander, author of Citizens: How the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us, and Nicola Ban...
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Unpacking the ‘Developing’ Country Classification | Deborah Barros Leal Farias
The division of the world into ‘developing’ and ‘developed’ countries has grown increasingly problematic in the past decades. Nonetheless, it remains embedded in legal documents, foreign policy discourse, and colloquial use. In this lecture, Dr...
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What role can researchers play in driving urban reform?
This episode comes from the African Cities Research Centre, based at the Global Development Institute. Urban reform coalitions can play a critical role in building inclusive...
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Is Development Studies still relevant? A discussion with Sam Hickey, Heloise Weber and Winnie Mitullah
The latest episode of our podcast brings together Sam Hickey, President of the Development Studies Association UK, Heloise Weber, President of the Development Studies Association Australia and special guest Winnie Mitullah from IDS, University ...
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In Conversation: Kathy Dodworth + Elisa Gambino
In this episode Elisa Gambino is joined by Kathy Dodworth. They discuss Kathy’s new book, Legitimation as Political Practice<...
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South Sudan’s decades of displacement: Understanding return and questioning reintegration
People in South Sudan have experienced decades of forced displacement and cross-border mobility, resulting in families split across the country and neighbouring Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda. According to the United Nations as of 2021, more...
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In Conversation: Lisa Ann Richey + Tanja Müller
In this episode Tanja Müller talks to Lisa Ann Richey about her career and her recent book, Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development. Lisa Ann Richey is Professor of Globalisation and ...
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In Conversation: Tom Goodfellow + Pritish Behuria
In this episode Tom Goodfellow and Pritish Behuria discuss Tom's career and his new book, Politics and the Urban Frontier: Tra...
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Building inclusive urban reform coalitions | Diana Mitlin
This episode comes from the African Cities Research Consortium podcast.Diana Mitlin talks to Ezana Haddis Weldeghebrael about her
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Community-led planning and transformation with Charity Mumbi and Jane Wairutu
This episode comes from the African Cities Research Consortium podcast. “It’s not our data as SDI, it’s not ACRC data, it’s not their data. It’s the community’s data. So you have to have...
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In Conversation: Amani Abou-Zeid
In the latest Global Development Institute podcast Amani Abou-Zeid, African Union Commissioner in charge of infrastructure, energy and ICT, talks to Set...
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In Conversation: Basma Albanna + Richard Heeks
Development studies often focuses on the negative: constraints, challenges, negative impacts, etc. But what if we could use new digital datasets to identify positive deviants: outlier individuals, households, districts and others that outperfor...
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In Conversation: Stefano Ponte
In this episode, Stefano Ponte talks to Aarti Krishnan about his research into sustainability, the wine and seafood value chains in South Africa and his recent book Business, Power and Sustainability in a World of Global Value Chains
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Shifting South: Horticulture regional value chains and decent work in Africa
In the second of our Shifting South series, Stephanie Barrientos talks to Margareet Visser and Maggie Opondo. They reflect on the project and their ...
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Shifting South: Regional garment value chains and decent work in Southern Africa
In the first of our Shifting South series, Stephanie Barrientos talks to Khalid Nadvi and Shane Godfrey. They reflect on the project and their resea...
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In Conversation: Stefan Dercon
In the latest episode of the GDI podcast, Professor Stefan Dercon talks to Dr Sophie van Huellen. ...
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Urban metabolism, water scarcity & seawater desalination in Chile | Maria Christina Fragkou
GDI’s Resources, Environment, and Development research group have recently organised a series of talks on ‘Red Talks: on the Politics of Resources, Environment and Development'The first event welcomed
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