LSE – December 2024
News
- Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox, by Professor Naila Kabeer and published via open access with LSE Press in September 2024, is up for this year’s People’s Book Prize! If you have 30 seconds to spare, please cast your vote to support this insightful work.
- “Politics in the West is fundamentally changing. The likes of Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen and Germany’s AfD are often seen as a rising ‘Far Right’. This is wrong, argues Jean-Paul Faguet, because it implies that these politicians exist on the same Left-Right axis that has long defined Western politics.” Professor Jean-Paul Faguet questions whether “The age of Left-Right politics is over?” for iai.news.
- On Friday 15 November Professor Kathy Hochstetler hosted a day-long, in-person research workshop for researchers in ID and Fudan University’s Institute for Global Public Policy to present their work to each other and to engage in extended discussion of their shared interests on Inclusive Development.
- Students and staff from LSE ID, including Professor Kate Meagher and Professor Duncan Green share their thoughts on the winners of the 2024 Nobel Economics Prize and their contribution in comparative studies of prosperity between nations.
- “Unless we can open up political space for dissent and confront the true costs of conflict, wars will not burn themselves out. They will simply burn.” Professor David Keen writes with Oxford’s Dr Ruben Andersson in the New York Times. Professor David Keen has also written a report on the famine in Sudan for Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform.
Publications
Lewis, David, Bowers, Rebecca, Heslop, Luke and Tawfic, Simon (2024) From ecosystems to advicescapes: business, development and advice in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Journal of South Asian Development, 19 (3). 345 – 363. ISSN 0973-1741
Chiavaroli, Chiara (2024) The reproductive geography of miscarriages. Social identities, places, and reproductive inequalities. Social Science & Medicine, 360. ISSN 0277-9536
Brett, Edwin and Tomlinson, Alan (2024) (Mis)governing world football? Agency and (non)accountability in FIFA. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. ISSN 0143-6503
Kar, Sohini (2024) The indebted woman: kinship, sexuality, and capitalism. American Ethnologist. ISSN 0094-0496
Madon, Shirin and Masiero, Silvia (2024) Digital connectivity and the SDGs: conceptualising the link through an institutional resilience lens. Telecommunications Policy. ISSN 0308-5961
Majid, Hadia and Shami, Mahvish (2024) Targeting the centre and (least) poor: evidence from urban Lahore, Pakistan. Urban Studies, 61 (13). 2644 – 2662. ISSN 0042-0980
Beck, Silke, Forsyth, Tim and Mahony, Martin (2024) Climate change and STS. In: Felt, Ulrike and Irwin, Alan, (eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Studies. Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences series. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 451 – 459. ISBN 9781800377981
El Kadi, Tin (2024) Learning along the Digital Silk Road? Technology transfer, power, and Chinese ICT corporations in North Africa. Information Society, 40 (2). 136 – 153. ISSN 0197-2243
Melvin, Jennifer (2024) The rhetorical power of aid for trade: UK aid in the age of Brexit and Covid-19. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 45 (1). 42 – 61. ISSN 0225-5189
Watch event recordings
- On Thursday 21 November LSE hosted the launch of Sir Mark Lowcock’s latest book The Rise and Fall of the Department for International Development. The panel also included co-author Ranil Dissanayake and discussants Professor James Putzel and Clare Short. The event was chaired by Professor Stuart Gordon. Watch here.
- On Thursday 14 November LSE discussed 30 years of Professor Naila Kabeer’s book Reversed Realities and how it has influenced thinking in gender and development, with Professor Naomi Hossain, Dr Erin Lentz and Professor David Lewis. Watch here.
- Professor Elliott Green delivered his Inaugural Lecture Industrialisation and National Identity in Modern Africa in the Old Theatre as part of LSE’s Public Lecture Programme last Wednesday. Professor Ken Shadlen chaired the event. Watch here.
- Speakers include: Clare Short, Kevin Watkins, Marsha Henry, Michael Mann, Elizabeth Ingleson, Rahmane Idrissa, Simon Roberts, Amir Lebdioui, Annalisa Prizzon and Shamel Azmeh. We offer our online audience the chance to watch the lectures back via our YouTube channel, listen via the podcast series and read student reflections on our blog.