In this episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast we look at an ‘accompanied’ approach to sustaining poverty reduction through long-term research. It focuses on work undertaken by the IDS-hosted Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN) in Zambia, and draws on insights from the project’s funder – the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and partners from the World Bank and researchers in Zambia.

Leading the podcast is Vidya Diwakar, Deputy Director of the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network. In the podcast she talks to:

• Joseph Simbaya, a Research Fellow and Director of the Institute of Economic and Social Research at the University of Zambia who talks about the project research findings and what was the problem this piece of research was trying to solve.
• Makda Abebe, Senior social protection specialist at the World Bank about her earlier work with FCDO especially in Ethiopia and Zambia. Makda talks on what makes this type of long-term collaboration around poverty reduction evidence and policy engagement worth it and how can it best be replicated, if it is sufficiently valuable?
• Leah Gaffney, Social Development Advisor, FCDO. Leah talks on what she values most in this research and how can this knowledge about poverty dynamics be used to shape development thinking?

The three speakers all offer a different slant on the benefits of being with a project for a long period of time, speaking from their point of view as either a researcher, project partner or funder. This podcast is essential listening on how we can learn from long-term research funding for creating a more sustainable and equitable world.

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In this episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast IDS Research Officer Catherine Grant from the IDS-led Pandemic Preparedness project talks to Paul Richards an anthropologist with over forty-five years' experience of living and working in West Africa and author of the book Ebola: How a People’s Science Helped End an Epidemic. 

In the podcast and drawing on extensive first-hand experiences in Sierra Leone, Paul and Catherine discuss that the international community’s panicky response failed to take account of local expertise and common sense.

Crucially, they discuss that the humanitarian response to the disease was most effective in those areas where it supported these initiatives and that it hampered recovery when it ignored or disregarded local knowledge.

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In this special episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast, IDS Research Fellow Stephen Thompson and IDS Research Officer Mariah Cannon interview pioneering Researcher Robert Chambers.

For years, international development has traditionally been dominated by ‘experts’ in the global North telling ‘poor people’ in the global South how their lives could be improved. Robert’s writing and thinking, however revolutionised the discipline, inspiring both participatory processes and a more inclusive practice.

This podcast is released to coincide with publication of the recent archive collection of the IDS Bulletin which a celebration of Robert’s contribution to the journal over the last five decades.

In the interview Robert talks about the importance of workshops and talking to people to further research ideas; How his work has changed from focusing on rural development to more urban development. He also talks about his early time in Kenya in the late 1950’s and going back four years ago to see how much has changed with regards to technology and connectivity.

This interview is a fascinating insight into Robert’s career, his publishing legacy with the IDS Bulletin and a history lesson on how development research has evolved over the last 50 years.

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In this special episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast, Jigyasa Agarwal – a journalist, development practitioner and current master's student at IDS – interviews IDS Alumni Naimat Zafary.

In this personal and powerful account, Naimat, talks about his journey to becoming a Master’s Student at IDS after he – along with his family – was evacuated from Kabul Airport on the 24 August 2021 when the Taliban took over.

Naimat talks about being offered a Chevening Scholarships to study at IDS, his journey to get out of Kabul Airport through chaotic scenes, and his time at IDS and his new home in the United Kingdom here in Sussex.

Finally, Naimat talks about how education is key for Afghanistan and his hopes for the future.

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In this episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast, IDS Fellow Lars Otto Naess interviews Dr Neil McCulloch about his new book: Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies: The politics of saving the planet.

In the podcast Neil discuss that fossil fuel subsidies are killing both people and the planet, because they encourage the excessive consumption of fossil fuels – which exacerbate pollution and climate change and waste huge sums that could be used far better.

Neil lays out a new agenda for action on fossil fuel subsidies, showing how a better understanding of the underlying political incentives can lead to more effective approaches to tackling this major global problem.

This podcast is essential listening for all studying and researching climate change, green transformations and climate justice.

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Digital deception is the new face of information warfare. Social media has been weaponised by states and commercial entities alike, as bots and trolls proliferate and users are left to navigate an info-demic of fake news and disinformation.

In this episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast, IDS Fellow Tony Roberts interviews Marc Jones, Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar. Marc is author of the book: ­­Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media.

The book looks to unpick a global web of shadowy actors in the service of digital rights in the Middle East.

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In this episode of Between the Lines, Priya Raghavan, Post-Doctoral Researcher in the IDS Governance Cluster, interviews Nicky Falkof, Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. Priya is part of the IDS project Sustaining Power for Women’s Rights, which works with women’s movements in South Asia to study and help develop strategies against backlash.

Nicky is co-editor of the book: Intimacy and injury: In the wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa.

Through the lens of the #MeToo moment, this book and podcast tracks histories of feminist’s organising in both countries, while also revealing how newer strategies extended or limited these struggles. Intimacy and injury is a timely mapping of a shifting political field around gender-based violence in the global south.

This book and podcast is essential reading and listening for all studying and researching gender issues, especially in relation to questions of gendered violence.

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In this episode of Between the Lines, IDS Fellows, Dominic Glover and Lidia Cabral interview Glenn Davies Stone, Research Professor of Environmental Science at Sweet Briar College, Virginia.

Glenn is author of the book: The Agricultural Dilemma: How Not to Feed the World.

In the book and podcast, the author questions everything we think we know about the current state of agriculture and how to, or perhaps more importantly how not to, feed a world with a growing population.

This podcast and book is essential listening for all studying and researching food production and agriculture.

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In this episode of IDS Between the Lines, IDS Director Melissa Leach interviews leading development policy analyst and IDS Emeritus Fellow Raphael Kaplinsky, author of the book Sustainable Futures: An Agenda for Action.

The book explores the determinants and character of the ongoing environmental, economic, social and political crises and seeks to identify a roadmap for building a more sustainable world.

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In this special episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast, Andy Sumner, Professor of International Development at Kings College London and President of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) interviews Professor Melissa Leach who leaves IDS after 33 years. This includes the last decade of her being the Director of IDS.

In the conversation Melissa talks about:

•  What her main research and policy contributions have been and how have these evolved over the years
• How has development studies changed over her time at IDS?
• And what does she see as the main opportunities and challenges for the future in an uncertain world?

This podcast is a must-listen for people interested in how development studies has changed over the last 30 years and how we re-cast development studies for future generations.

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In this episode of IDS Between the Lines, BBC Journalist Sana Safi interviews Max Gallien, Research Fellow, at the Institute of Development Studies and Florian Weigand, co-director at the Centre for the Study of Armed Groups at ODI and research associate at LSE.

Max and Florian are editors of the recently published book: The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling. The book – which has just been made open access – offers a comprehensive survey of interdisciplinary research related to smuggling, reflecting on key themes, and charting current and future trends.

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In this episode of the IDS podcast Between the Lines, Ian Scoones and Andrea Cornwall, editors of the book Revolutionizing Development: Reflections on the work of Robert Chambers interview Robert Chambers about his work and legacy.

The book – which has just been made open access - with a new foreword from IDS Director Melissa Leach – tells the story of development studies in practice over the last 50 years, with contributions from authors who have been intimately involved as collaborators, critics and colleagues of Robert Chambers.

In the interview, Ian and Andrea ask Robert amongst other questions; what have been your influences and what does development studies mean today.

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In this episode of Between the Lines, IDS Research Fellow John Gaventa interviews Ben Jackson and Harriet Lamb, authors of the book From Anger to Action: Inside the Global Movements for Social Justice, Peace, and a Sustainable Planet.

Drawing on candid insights from citizens, activists, and innovators, and their own experiences as leaders of internationally recognized advocacy organizations, the authors give an insider account of the battle for change and how it can be won – as well as trenchant criticism of where traditional civil society has lost its way and needs renewal.

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In this episode of the IDS podcast Between the Lines, IDS Research Fellow Tony Roberts interviews Eve Hayes de Kalaf, author of the book Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic: From Citizen to Foreigner.

The author discusses amongst other things; What motivated them to write the book? And what stories of lived experiences were important in developing this book?

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About the author

Eve Hayes de Kalaf is a research associate based at the School of Histories, Languages and Cultures, University of Liverpool and a fellow of the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London.

About the interviewer

Dr. Tony Roberts is a Research Fellow in the Digital and Technology cluster at the Institute of Development Studies. He has been working at the intersection of digital technologies, international development and social justice since 1988 as a volunteer, lecturer, practitioner, trustee and researcher.

About the book

Over the next ten years, states are carrying out large-scale registrations in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs aim to provide more than one billion people around the world with evidentiary proof of their legal and, increasingly, digital existence by 2030.

This book identifies a connection between the role of international actors, such as the World Bank and the United Nations, in promulgating the universal provision of legal identity and links these with arbitrary measures to restrict access to citizenship paperwork from migrant-descended populations.

The book provides the definitive analysis of the events leading up to the controversial 2013 Constitutional Tribunal ruling that rendered the Dominican plaintiff Juliana Deguis Pierre stateless. Hayes de Kalaf illustrates how measures that purposely blocked people of Haitian ancestry from accessing their legal identity not only affected undocumented and stateless populations – persons living at the fringes of citizenship – but also had a major impact on documented people; Dominicans already in possession of a state-issued birth certificate, national identity card and/or passport.

The book illustrates the complex and contradictory ways in which ID systems are experienced, thus challenging the assumption within current development policy that the provision of ID to everyone, everywhere will lead to the inclusion of all citizens.

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In this episode of Between the Lines, IDS Research Fellow Lyla Mehta interviews Luisa Cortesi and K. J. Joy, editors of the book Split Waters: The Idea of Water Conflicts.

The authors discuss amongst other things; What motivated them to write the book? And what stories of lived experiences were important in developing this book?

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In this episode of Between the Lines, Researcher and Tax expert Jalia Kangave interviews Mick Moore, IDS Research Fellow and Senior Fellow of the International Centre for Tax and Development and Wilson Prichard Associate Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs, Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, and the CEO of the International Centre for Tax and Development.

Mick and Wilson along with Odd-Helge Fjeldstad are authors of the book: Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform and Development which offers a fascinating insight into the key issues facing policy makers, tax collectors, civil society activists and donors working to increase revenues to finance sustainable development in Africa.

The authors discuss amongst other things; What motivated them to write the book? And what stories of lived experiences were important in developing this book?

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In this episode of Between the Lines, IDS Fellow, John Gaventa interviews Fiona Anciano and Joanna Wheeler who edited the book: Political Values and Narratives of Resistance: Social Justice and the Fractured Promises of Post-colonial States.

The book brings together multidisciplinary perspectives to explore how political values and acts of resistance impact the delivery of social justice in post-colonial states such as South Africa and Zimbabwe. Examining important themes in political science, anthropology, sociology and urban geography, this book will appeal to scholars and students interested in political values, justice, social movements and resistance.

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In this episode of Between the Lines, IDS Director of Research, Peter Taylor interviews IDS Research Fellows; Danny Burns and Jo Howard, and Sonia M. Ospina, Professor of Public Management and Policy at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service who edited the recently published: SAGE Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry.

The Handbook presents contemporary, cutting-edge approaches to participatory research and inquiry with contributions from 137 authors in 71 chapters. It has been designed for the community of researchers, professionals and activists engaged in interventions and action for social transformation.

It offers an overview of different influences on participatory research, explores in detail how to address critical issues and design effective participatory research processes, and provides detailed accounts of how to use a wide range of participatory research methods. 

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India's urban slums exhibit dramatic variation in their access to local public goods and services - paved roads, piped water, trash removal, sewers, and streetlights. Why are some vulnerable communities able to demand and secure development from the state while others fail? Drawing on more than two years of fieldwork in the north Indian cities of Bhopal and Jaipur, Demanding Development accounts for the uneven success of India's slum residents in securing local public goods and services. Auerbach's theory centers on the political organization of slum settlements and the informal slum leaders who spearhead resident efforts to make claims on the state - in particular, those slum leaders who are party workers. He finds striking variation in the extent to which networks of party workers have spread across slum settlements. Demanding Development shows how this variation in the density and partisan distribution of party workers across settlements has powerful consequences for the ability of residents to politically mobilize to improve local conditions.

In this episode of Between the Lines, IDS Fellow Shandana Mohmand interviews Adam Auerbach, author of the book: Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India's Urban Slums.

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The world of development thinkers and practitioners is abuzz with a new lexicon: the idea of “the nexus” between water, food, and energy. It promises better integration of multiple sectoral elements, a better transition to greener economies, and sustainable development. However, there appears to be little agreement on its precise meaning, whether it only complements existing environmental governance approaches or how it can be enhanced in national contexts.

In this episode of Between the Lines, IDS Fellow Shilpi Srivastava interviews Jeremy Allouche, Dipak Gyawali and Carl Middleton the editors of the book: The Water–Food–Energy Nexus: Power, Politics, and Justice.

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• Between the Lines created by Sarah King
• Recorded, edited and narrated by Gary Edwards
• Music credit: Crypt of Insomnia/One Day in Africa (instrumental version)/Getty Images

The Water–Food–Energy Nexus Power: Politics, and Justice

Interviewer

Shilpi Srivastava is a Research Fellow with the Resource Politics Cluster. She is trained as a political scientist and she completed her PhD in Development Studies (Sussex) in 2015. Her doctoral research focused on the politics and practice of water regulation reform in India.

Book authors

Jeremy Allouche is a co-director of the Humanitarian Learning Centre and principle investigator of the GCRF-funded project Islands of Innovation in Protracted Crisis and the AHRC/DFID-funded project New Community-Informed Approaches to Humanitarian Protection and Restraint. He is a political sociologist trained in history and international relations with over 20 years research and advisory experience on resource politics (water, mining) in conflict and borderland areas and the difficulties of aid delivery in such contexts, as well as studying the idea of ‘islands of peace’.

Dipak Gyawali is a hydroelectric power engineer and a political economist who, during his time as Nepal’s Minister of Water Resources in 2002/2003, initiated reforms in the electricity and irrigation sectors focused on decentralization and promotion of rural participation in governance. He also initiated the first national review and comparison of Nepali laws with the guidelines of the World Commission on Dams.

Carl Middleton is an SEI Affiliated Researcher with SEI Asia Centre. His research interests orientate around the politics and policy of the environment in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on environmental justice and the political ecology of water and energy.

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Increasingly, finance dominates the way we live our lives. Despite seeing, in recent years, growth in economies globally, more and more people are struggling to make ends meet. Inequality gaps continue to grow, and the bulk of income is concentrated among a small group.

The term ‘Financialization’ has become the go-term for scholars grappling with the growth and changing face of finance and its consequences. Some explain it as the domination of financial markets and institutions over other sectors of the economy. It has been described by some as ‘wonky’. However it is understood, it is a term that is increasingly used across academic disciplines, presenting varying viewpoints and approaches, and a useful analytical lens on politics, technology, culture, society and the economy.

In this episode of Between the Lines, Dinah Rajak speaks with Phil Mader and Natascha van der Zwan, about their vital new book ‘The Routledge International Handbook of Financialization’, which brings together scholars to interrogate different understandings of financialization and its impacts.

With thanks to:

• Sarah King introduces the podcast.
• Sarah King produces and edits the podcast series and created the artwork.
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To build back better we must rein in Finacialization - Phil Mader

Making Sense of Finacialization - Natascha van der Zwan

Poverty Reduction of the Financialization of Poverty - Phil Mader

Financialisation and the Pension System: Lessons from the United States and the Netherlands - Natascha van der Zwan

Dinah Rajak a Reader in anthropology and development at the University of Sussex. Her current research explores, entrepreneurship, youth employment, 'bottom of the pyramid' approaches to development and concepts of inclusive markets. She is co-founder of the Centre for New Economies of Development, author of In Good Company: An Anatomy of Corporate Social Responsibility and co-editor of The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility (Berghahn 2016).

Philip Mader is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (Brighton, UK) and program convenor of the MA in Globalisation, Business and Development. His research focuses on development and the politics of markets. His PhD from the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and the University of Cologne was published as The Political Economy of Microfinance: Financializing Poverty (Palgrave, 2015) and was recognized with the Otto Hahn Medal and the German Thesis Award.

Natascha van der Zwan is Assistant Professor in Public Administration at Leiden University. She does comparative and historical research on financialization and pension systems, investment rules and regulations, and pension fund capitalism. Her article ``Making Sense of Financialization'' (Socio-Economic Review, 2014) has become a key article in scholarship on financialization and is widely used in university courses. Dr Van der Zwan holds a PhD in Political Science from the New School for Social Research.

Daniel Mertens is Professor of International Political Economy at the University of Osnabrück. Prior to that, he was an assistant professor at Goethe University Frankfurt and a visiting scholar at Northwestern University. He received his PhD from the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and the University of Cologne. His work ranges from the politics of credit markets and banking to analyses of the modern tax state and has been published in outlets such as the Journal of European Public Policy, New Political Economy and Competition & Change.

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As COVID-19 vaccine rollouts get underway across the world, many are resting their hopes on vaccines as a pathway out of the pandemic. However, an increasing number of people believe vaccines are unsafe or unnecessary. Vaccine hesitancy is nothing new, indeed it is as old as vaccination itself. So, what can we learn from previous vaccine programmes, about what people’s concerns are and how they can be addressed?

In the latest episode of Between the Lines, IDS Director Melissa Leach joins Anthropologist and Founding Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project, Heidi Larson, to discuss her new book Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start and Why They Don't Go Away. 

They explore the social and emotional factors that contribute to vaccine hesitancy, the role of misinformation, and they look at considerations for more holistic public engagement.

Related content:

·        Stuck: How Vaccine Rumours Start – and Why They Don’t Go Away 

·        Vaccine Anxieties: Global Science, Child Health and Society 

·        The Vaccine Confidence Project 

·        Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform 

·        Rapid Review: Vaccine Hesitancy and Building Confidence in COVID-19 Vaccination 

·        A call to arms: helping family, friends and communities navigate the COVID-19 infodemic 

·        She Hunts Viral Rumors About Real Viruses 

·        Heidi Larson interview: How to stop covid-19 vaccine hesitancy 

·        Comment on ‘Covid-19 vaccine deployment: Behaviour, ethics, misinformation and policy strategies’ 

·        We need trust in our politics to overcome vaccine hesitancy  

·        Vaccine trials must engage with communities or risk failure, say social scientists 

·        Infographic: Going beyond misinformation to build vaccine confidence  

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• Kelly Shephard introduces the podcast.
• Sarah King produces and edits the podcast series and created the artwork.
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We live in a world of technologies that misdirect our attention, poison our political conversations, and jeopardize our democracies. In his book: ‘Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives’, through analysis of social media and public polling data, in-depth interviews with political consultants, bot writers, and journalists, Philip Howard: Professor of Internet Studies at the Oxford Internet Institute, offers ways to take these “lie machines” apart.

In this episode of Between the Lines, IDS Digital and Technology researcher, Tony Roberts, speaks with Philip about how digital technologies are used to produce, distribute and market political lies, how strategies differ in different countries, and how the disinformation landscape is evolving.

Philip Howard is the Director of the Computation Propaganda research project and author of over 120 academic articles and 8 books including The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, and the edited collection on Computational Propaganda.

With thanks to:

• Kelly Shephard introduces the podcast.
• Sarah King produces and edits the podcast series and created the artwork.
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How do marginalised voters living in conditions of intense socioeconomic inequality, engage in electoral politics and improve their material conditions? Grounding her research in the context of Pakistan, IDS researcher, Shandana Khan Mohmand, probes into this question by using original data collected across different villages and households in rural Pakistan.

In this episode of Between the Lines, Professor Adam Auerbach, from the American University in Washington DC, specialising in local governance, urban politics, and the political economy of development, with a regional focus on South Asia and India, speaks with Shandana about her book: Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters: Democracy Under Inequality in Rural Pakistan.

With thanks to:

• Kelly Shephard introduces the podcast.
• Adam Auerbach is the interviewer.
• Shandana Khan Mohmand is the author.
• Sarah King produces and edits the podcast series and created the artwork.
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How do we determine when our research has impact? If our aim is to produce research that contributes to making a positive difference in the world, how do we measure and track achievements?

In this episode of Between the Lines, IDS’ Director of Communications and Impact, James Georgalakis, speaks with James Gow and Henry Redwood from Kings College London, who co-authored the book: Impact in International Affairs: The Quest for World-Leading Research.

They explore the concept of impact and the characteristics found in ‘World-Leading’ Impact, as identified by the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF). They discuss the limitations of such frameworks, that treat change processes as linear and miss some of the more difficult to measure positive impacts.

With thanks to:

• Kelly Shephard introduces the podcast.
• James Georgalakis is the interviewer.
• James Gow speaks first and Henry Redwood speaks second.
• Sarah King produces and edits the podcast series and created the artwork.
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Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? From finance and technology to climate change, pandemics, migration and security, what the future holds feels increasingly uncertain and demands alternative approaches. If hopes of much-needed progressive transformations are to be realised, then current blinkered understandings of uncertainty need to be met with renewed democratic struggle.

In this episode of Between the Lines, co-authors Andy Stirling, Sobia Ahmad Kaker and Ian Scoones. discuss their book: The Politics of Uncertainty,

Links:

Sussex Development Lecture on the politics of uncertainty

STEPS Centre conference: The Politics of Uncertainty: Practical Challenges for Transformative Action

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Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, Whiteness and Decolonising the Academy, reveals the roots of structural racism that limit social mobility and equality within Britain for Black and ethnicised students and academics in its inherently white Higher Education institutions. It brings together both established and emerging scholars in the fields of Race and Education to explore what institutional racism in British Higher Education looks like in colour-blind ‘post-race’ times. It demonstrates how far we have come and yet how far we still have to go.

In this episode of Between the Lines, IDS Director of Teaching and Learning, Linda Waldman, speaks with the book editors, Jason Arday and Heidi Mirza.

References:

• Aiming Higher – Runnymede report

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An increasing number of countries around the world have been trialling a ‘basic income’ for their citizens, and the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for governments to reevalutate and strengthen social safety nets. The UN has called for a Temporary Basic Income, to provide a lifeline for the world’s poorest. Could something like a ‘Universal Basic Income’ help in Covid-19 recovery, and in the longer-term, help to address some of societies biggest challenges?

In this episode of Between the Lines, Phil Mader speaks with Guy Standing, a leading expert on the basic income concept, about his book, Battling Eight Giants: Basic Income Now.

• Basic Income Earth Network
• Other books by Guy Standing
• Massive Attack collaboration with Guy Standing

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In this episode of Between the Lines, IDS Head of Knowledge, Impact and Policy, Kelly Shephard, talks to author and broadcaster, Helen Lewis about her book, Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights.

In looking at the history of feminism and stories of rebel women, details are too often whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search for feel-good, inspirational heroines. In this book, Helen reclaims the history of feminism as a history of difficult women.

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Uprootedness, exile and forced displacement, be it due to conflict, natural disasters or even so-called 'development', affects the lives of millions of people across the globe. The numbers of people affected are increasing, as shocks and crises force people to flee their homes and find safe places to live.

In this episode of Between the Lines IDS researcher, Jaideep Gupte speaks with Lyla Mehta from IDS and Katarzyna Grabska from PRIO, Oslo and Institute of Ethnology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, about their co-edited book ‘Forced Displacement: Why Rights Matter’ - they reflect on their research and experiences from 2005 in Egypt and India, and how realising rights and amplifying voices of displaced people, matters even more today.

Book: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312067397_Forced_displacement_Why_rights_matter

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Uncertainties of all sorts – environmental, market-based and political – are on the rise, as the world faces climate and environmental change.

In this episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast, Rashmi Singh, interviews Professor Ian Scoones from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) whose book: Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Development – makes the case that recognising how pastoralists make productive use of variability and embrace uncertainty is central to understanding how pastoral systems in marginal dryland and montane systems work. 

They argue that learning lessons from pastoralists is therefore important for all of us, as well as ensuring that development efforts are more effective across the world’s rangelands, where millions of pastoralists live.

This podcast offers wider lessons for rethinking development policy and practice for today’s uncertain, turbulent world.

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One of the most-discussed digital financial inclusion projects, M-Pesa facilitates the transfer of money and access to formal financial services via the mobile phone infrastructure and has grown at a phenomenal rate since its launch in 2007.

In this episode of Between the Lines. Serena Natile discusses her book, The Exclusionary Politics of Digital Financial Inclusion, which critiques mobile money as part of a historical succession of finance solutions and puts forward a strategy for gender equality, arguing for a politics of redistribution to guide future digital financial inclusion projects.

Interviewing Serena is IDS Digital and Technology researcher. Tony Roberts  

Serena Natile is a Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies at Brunel Law School, Brunel University London     

Book: https://www.routledge.com/The-Exclusionary-Politics-of-Digital-Financial-Inclusion-Mobile-Money/Natile/p/book/9780367179588 

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At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has raised issues of welfare regimes higher up the global agenda, author Ferdinand Eibl discusses his book, Social Dictatorships: The Political Economy of the Welfare State in the Middle East and North Africa. Using mixed methods of study, the book presents an explanation as to why social spending in authoritarian regimes differ and presents case studies of the political origins of the Tunisian and Egyptian welfare state.

Interviewing Ferdinand is IDS Research Fellow, Max Gallien.

Ferdinand is Lecturer in Political Economy and programme director of the MA Politics and Economics of the Middle East at King’s College London.

Book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/social-dictatorships-9780198834274?q=eibl&lang=en&cc=gb

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The global pandemic Covid-19 is impacting people in many and varied ways. The effects on all our lives are immense and diverse, from rural and urban communities, young and old, from different geographic and economic groups. We are each living with different realities of a global crisis.

IDS' Melissa Leach, Hayley MacGregor,Annie Wilkinson and Ian Scoones discuss how we can learn from past epidemics and outbreaks and the need to understand social dynamics in order to respond to Covid-19.

Links:

• Book – ‘Avian Influenza: Science, Policy and Politics’, Ian Scoones
• Book – ‘Epidemics: Science, Governance and Social Justice’, Melissa Leach, Sarah Dry and Hayley MacGregor
• Blog - Covid-19 - a social phenomenon requiring diverse expertise
• Blog - Science, uncertainty and the Covid-19 response
• Pandemic Preparedness Programme

Twitter: @IDS_UK #IDSbetweenthelines

Discount code IDS50 offering 50% discount on the three titles listed below:

• Avian Influenza | Paperback | £33.99 £16.99
• Epidemics: Science, Governance and Social Justice | Paperback| £39.99 £19.99
• One Health: Science, politics and zoonotic disease in Africa | Paperback| £35.99 £17.99

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Water is crucial to sustain life, food, ecosystems, human health and wellbeing. Still, millions of poor and marginalised women and men around the world face challenges in accessing water due to a range of ecological, socio-political, institutional and economic reasons.

The focus of this month’s episode of Between the Lines is a new book called ‘Water for Food Security, Nutrition and Social Justice’ . IDS researcher, Lidia Cabral interviews two of its authors IDS Fellow, Lyla Mehta and Claudia Ringler, who is Deputy Director of Environment and Production Technology Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). They argue for the need to improve policy coherence across water, land and food and make the case for strengthening the relationship between the human rights to water and food, especially for marginalized women and men.

Book: https://www.ids.ac.uk/publications/water-for-food-security-nutrition-and-social-justice/

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Domestic violence remains widespread in many countries. Approximately 1/3 of women globally experience some form of violence in their lifetime.

In this month’s episode of Between the Lines, IDS researcher, Sohela Nazneen discusses a book that she has co edited entitled, ‘Negotiating Gender Equity in the Global South: The Politics of Domestic Violence Policy.'

The book investigates the conditions under which countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia have adopted legislation against domestic violence. And, as Sohela explains, how broader domains of power need to be addressed if we are to have gender-inclusive policy outcomes.

Interviewing Sohela is economist and gender specialist, Professor Diane Elson.

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Book: https://www.ids.ac.uk/publications/negotiating-gender-equity-in-the-global-south/

Sohela Nazneen: https://www.ids.ac.uk/people/sohela-nazneen/

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In recent years, climate change and the environment has shot up the agenda in political and public discourse, and a new type of politics has taken shape, with many people calling for urgent, radical change.

In this month’s Between the Lines, IDS Director Melissa Leach, Professor Ian Scoones and Professor Peter Newell discuss their co-edited book, The Politics of Green Transformations. Drawing on international examples, they reflect on past transformations as examples of positive change and examine the factors that have contributed to recent heightened awareness and emergency narratives. They discuss the tensions between the need for urgent green transformations and issues of inequality, social justice and rights, and call on an evidence-based politics of hope, to drive humanity towards a sustainable, just future.

Interviewing them is Andrew Simms, author, political economist, activist and the coordinator of the Rapid Transition Alliance.

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Melissa Leach: https://www.ids.ac.uk/people/melissa-leach/

Peter Newell: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/104921

Ian Scoones: https://www.ids.ac.uk/people/ian-scoones/

Andrew Simms: http://www.newweather.org/about-us/andrew-simms/

Rapid Transitions Alliance: https://www.rapidtransition.org/

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In this month’s episode of Between the Lines we discuss a new book that helps us to better understand how power works.

Power, Empowerment and Social Change uncovers how power operates around the world, and how it can be transformed through collective action and social leadership.

Discussing this collaborative work with IDS Research Officer, Katy Oswald are co-editors Rosemary McGee and Jethro Pettit.

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Despite important strides in the fight against poverty in the last few decades, child poverty remains widespread and persistent, particularly in Africa.

Two-thirds of children in sub-Saharan Africa face all manners of hardship. These include poor living conditions, low educational outcomes, high levels of malnutrition and often high risks of exposure to different forms of violence. One in five children in sub-Saharan Africa are estimated to grow up in extreme “monetary” poverty, meaning they live in families without adequate incomes to make basic ends meet.

In this month’s episode of Between the Lines, IDS Researcher, Keetie Roelen and Yisak Tafere from the Policy Institute, Ethiopia, discuss their co-edited book “Putting Children First: New Frontiers in the Fight Against Child Poverty in Africa” - authored by over .

They outline some of the initiatives aiming to reduce child poverty and how they hope that this book will push the frontiers by challenging existing narratives, exploring alternative understandings of the complexities and dynamics underpinning child poverty and, crucially, examining policy options that work.

Interviewing Keetie and Yisak is IDS Research Associate, Sir Richard Jolly.

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This month we look at Refugee Tales, a series of books that bring together poets and novelists to tell the stories of individuals who have directly experienced Britain’s policy of indefinite immigration detention.

IDS' Kelly Shephard speaks with Emma Parsons who wrote “The Teacher’s Tale”, which is told from her perspective as an English teacher, giving support to a refugee detained under the UK immigration system.

Links:

Refugee Tales website: http://refugeetales.org/

Comma Press, the publishers: https://commapress.co.uk/books/refugee-tales-volume-iii

Refugee Tales on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/refugeetales/

The Guardian review: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/23/refugee-tales-migration-books-ungrateful-refugee-our-city-dina-nayeri-jon-bloomfield-jonathan-portes

Review of Emma Parsons' tale in EFL magazine: https://www.eflmagazine.com/book-review-refugee-tales/?fbclid=IwAR15zN-7IVq7HwST3ekr_rIaHEOWXHe0FZ1tVT1aqZZ_sG8wC7-autzGszw

This podcast is produced and edited by IDS Communications Coordinator, Sarah King. Please Send any comments and suggestions to betweenthelines@ids.ac.uk

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This month Hayley Macgregor speaks with Maya Unnithan, Professor of Social and medical anthropology at the University of Sussex, about her new book, ‘Fertility, Health and Reproductive Politics: Re-imagining Rights in India'.

Drawing on ethnographic research over the past eighteen years, Maya brings together the practices, experiences and discourse on fertility and reproduction in Northern India, into an overarching analytical framework on power and gender politics.

Through its focus on development actors, civil society members as well as health providers, it brings out the diverse ways in which reproductive rights are both understood and imagined by the state and civil society and juxtaposes this with understandings and perceptions of those who are both subjects and objects of the state policies and NGO interventions.

This podcast is produced and edited by IDS Communications Coordinator, Sarah King. Please send any comments and suggestions to betweenthelines@ids.ac.uk

Links:

Book: https://www.routledge.com/Fertility-Health-and-Reproductive-Politics-Re-imagining-Rights-in-India/Unnithan/p/book/9781138610965

Maya Unnithan: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/2755

Hayley Macgregor: https://www.ids.ac.uk/people/hayley-macgregor/

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Whether you are an activist, campaigner, development practitioner, lobbyist, entrepreneur, individual or an organisation, Duncan Green’s latest book, How Change Happens seeks to understand how power and systems shape change, and how to influence them.

In this month’s episode of between the lines, Duncan speaks with IDS researcher Jo Howard, offering the latest thinking on what works to achieve progressive change.

Download the Open Access book.

Watch the short summary of the Power and Systems Approach

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In this episode of between the lines, Nanjala Nyabola, a Kenyan activist, political analyst and author, speaks about her fascinating book ‘Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya’, about how the digital age and social media has impacted Kenyan politics, and the consequences for democracies across Africa, and beyond.

While the impact of the Digital Age on Western politics has been extensively debated, there is still little appreciation of how it has been felt in developing countries such as Kenya. Reframing digital democracy from the African perspective, Nanjala’s ground-breaking work opens up new ways of understanding the current global online era.

Interviewing Nanjala is IDS researcher Tony Roberts.

This podcast is produced and edited by IDS Communications Coordinator, Sarah King. Please Send any comments and suggestions to betweenthelines@ids.ac.uk

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In this episode of --between the lines-- IDS researcher, Richard Longhurst, speaks to Hilary Cottam about her book: 'Radical Help: how we can remake the relationships between us and revolutionise the welfare state.'

Radical Help is about new ways of organising living and growing that have been developed with communities across Britain. Hilary argues that our 20th century system is beyond reform and suggests a new model for this century: ways of supporting the young and the old, those who are unwell and those who seek good work. At the heart of this new way of working is human connection.

Hilary studied at IDS, her career began with an international focus, working on programmes in Africa and Latin America. Many of her ideas and approaches stemmed from this international work.

Resources:

Transcript: https://www.ids.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/8.-Hilary-CottamRadical-HelpTranscription.pdf

Book: https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/hilary-cottam/radical-help/9780349009087/

Richard Longhurst: https://www.ids.ac.uk/people/richard-longhurst/

This podcast is produced and edited by IDS Communications Coordinator, Sarah King: https://www.ids.ac.uk/people/sarah-king/

Send any comments and suggestions to betweenthelines@ids.ac.uk

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