Urban Displacements: Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism

Professor Susanne Soederberg (Queen’s University, Canada)

Techno-humanitarianism: Rethinking the Securitisation and Victimisation of Refugees

Dr Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths, University of London)

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Progress, Opportunities and Perils

Dr Tayyab Safdar (University of Cambridge, UK)

SPECIAL PANEL EVENT: The Second Arab Spring: Seasons of Revolution

Dr Janan Aljabiri (Aman Organization for Women, Iraq) | Dr Rima Majed (American University of Beirut, Lebanon) | Professor Gilbert Achcar (SOAS University of London)

Debunking the Myths about Immigration

Dr Maya Goodfellow (writer)

From Microcredit Evangelism to Digital Utopianism: The Unstoppable Rise of the Global Microcredit Industry

Dr Milford Bateman & Dr Penelope Hawkins

Marginal Development: States, Markets and Violence in Drug-affected Borderlands

Professor Jonathan Goodhand, Dr Jasmine Bhatia, Dr Patrick Meehan (SOAS University of London) & Dr Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín (National University of Colombia)

Resisting Religious Nationalism from Below: Gender and Caste, Borders and Boundaries

Professor Navtej Purewal (SOAS University of London) & Professor Virinder Kalra (University of Warwick)

Feminism: Neoliberal Tool or Fuel for the 99%?

Professor Hester Eisenstein (The City University of New York, USA)

Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth

Professor Guy Standing & Dr Subir Sinha (SOAS University of London)

Rethinking Prosperity: Climate Crisis, Consumption, Renewal

Professor Emerita Kate Soper (London Metropolitan University)

Money, Markets and Monarchies: The Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East

Dr Adam Hanieh (SOAS University of London)

Austerity, Populism, Protest: People Power in the Age of Dissent

Dr David Bailey (University of Birmingham)

Agrarian Transition and Development in an Age of Globalised Inequality: Some Questions from Africa

Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)

African countries face a different set of challenges in their attempts to develop than have more recently developed countries. In this talk, we will explore the predicament African countries face in a globalised and unequal world, and the potential paths to rural change, using Kenya as a case study.

Towards Zero Violence: Putting Gender into a Theory of Violence and Society

Sylvia Walby (City, University of London)

Is violence increasing or decreasing? The UN Sustainable Development Goals aspire to end violence against women and reduce violence in general. According to Pinker, drawing on Elias, violence is decreasing...

Climate Change and the ‘New Green Revolution’ in India

Marcus Taylor (Queen’s University, Canada)

Rural India is repeatedly argued to be in the midst of a social crisis as manifested in indicators of household indebtedness, farmer suicides, poor nutrition and food insecurity.  Such issues are amplified in the context of stark environmental challenges, including groundwater depletion, land degradation and climate change-induced droughts and floods.

Exiles in the 21st Century: The New ‘Population Law’ of Absolute Capitalism

Professor Etienne Balibar (University of Paris-Nanterre and Kingston University)

Clearly the 21st century will be marked by the increasingly large number of exiles i.e. uprooted and displaced people who find themselves ‘erring’ within or between states and continents, suffering extreme hardship or facing elimination, and creating imminent ‘pressure’ on states and societies.

Fictitious Capital in the 21st Century

Dr Cédric Durand (University of Paris 13 and EHESS, France)

Ten years after the great financial crisis we are still living under financial hegemony. The social and political wounds of the crash are far from being repaired. However, at institutional and structural levels most of the features of financial power are still in place and, arguably, even reinforced. How can we explain this resilience of financialisation? What are the socioeconomic implications?

South-South Development Cooperation 3.0? Changes in the Decade Ahead

Dr Emma Mawdsley (University of Cambridge)

The last decade or so has been a period of remarkable success for the actors, ideas and practices of South-South Cooperation.

Singularity: A Manifesto for Incomparable Geographies

Dr Tariq Jazeel (University College London)

This paper is a methodological response to the challenge of decolonising geographical knowledge.

Deconstructing Development Discourse: Buzzwords and Fuzzwords Revisited

Professor Andrea Cornwall, Dr Tania Kaiser & Dr Meera Sabaratnam | SOAS University of London

Why should language matter to those who are doing development? Surely there are more urgent things to do than sit around mulling over semantics? But language does matter.

Power, Politics, and Profit: The History of Food Aid in Conflict and Protracted Crisis

PANEL: Dr Susanne Jaspars (SOAS University of London), Professor Laura Hammond (SOAS University of London), Professor David Keen (LSE)

Food aid, and its withdrawal, has been used for a range of objectives: to support or undermine states or political movements, to save lives and support livelihoods, and to encourage self-reliance and – presently – resilience. In situations of conflict, states and leaders have diverted food aid to gain resources and authority or restricted it as part of counter-insurgency tactics. In the longer term, it becomes part of a country’s political economy.

The Wild East: India’s Criminal Economy and Politics

Professor Barbara Harriss-White (University of Oxford)

In the 21st century, many parts of the South Asian subcontinent are being conquered not by settler-migrants (as was the case in the Wild West) but by unruly and illegal forms of capital.

The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism

Dr Jessica Whyte (University of Western Sydney)

In 1927, the leading Austrian School neoliberal thinker Ludwig von Mises published a scathing attack on European colonial imperialism, which he described as antithetical to all the principles of liberalism.

Black Revolution: The Global Politics of Black Radicalism

Dr Kehinde Andrews (Birmingham City University)

Black radicalism is one of the most misunderstood political philosophies that exist. Conflated with extremism, narrow versions of nationalism and misogynistic organisations, it has largely been dismissed or overlooked as the ‘evil twin on the civil rights movement’.

Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas

SYMPOSIUM: Dr Alpa Shah (LSE, University of London), Kheya Bag (New Left Review)

Alpa Shah and Kheya Bag discuss some of the insights in Shah's new book, Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerillas.

Beyond Neoliberalism or Capitalism? The Latin American Experience

Professor Henry Veltmeyer (Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, México)

Latin America is currently caught up in a vortex of forces of social change generated in the process of capitalist development. This seminar will explore the diverse forms taken by the resistance to the advance of capital in the region over the course of the neoliberal era. It is argued that Latin America is a virtual laboratory of diverse experiments in the search for an alternative pathway and different models of post-development.

The Invention of the Savage: Philosophy, Politics and the Ideologies of Development

Dr Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Development has all too often set up a cordon sanitaire around itself, fending off discomfiting reminders of its entanglements with the ideologies and practices of colonialism and empire.

Neoliberalism, Populism, Fascism: The Implosion of Democracy in Brazil

PANEL: Professor Alfredo Saad-Filho, Professor Anthony Pereira, Dr Marieke Reithof, Dr Pedro Loureiro , Dr Francisco Dominguez

Brazil is in turmoil. The country is going through its deepest economic crisis in recorded history, and an unprecedented political crisis, which has led to the removal of President Dilma Rousseff and the imprisonment of former President Lula.

South-South Development Cooperation 3.0? Changes in the Decade Ahead

Dr Emma Mawdsley (University of Cambridge)

The last decade or so has been a period of remarkable success for the actors, ideas and practices of South-South Cooperation. First, the number of Southern development partners has grown, and collectively they have significantly increased their development finances and programmes. Second, they have consolidated and defended the claim to doing development differently. Third, they have achieved recognition as essential partners within the international development community.

The Struggle for Development

Professor Mark Duffield (University of Bristol), Dr Zoe Marriage (SOAS, University of London), Professor Benjamin Selwyn (University of Sussex)

Most development thought is based upon the assumption that the uplifting of the world’s poor is to be carried out by elite actors (states, corporations, NGOs) rather than the poor themselves.

The Crisis of Social Reproduction and the End of Work

Dr Nick Srnicek (King's College London)

There has been much discussion in recent years about the “crisis of work”, with academics and journalists alike pointing to potentially concerning trends in the labour market.

World Market, Patterns of Accumulation, and State Forms: The Political Economy of the Latin American Left

Dr Jeff Webber (Queen Mary, University of London)

This paper provides a synoptic assessment of the political economy of the Left turn in Latin America in the twenty-first century. First, it charts the broad trajectory of Latin America’s political economy in relation to trends in the world market and the international division of labour between 1980 and 2017.

Cities in Contexts of Power and Counterpower: A Global Perspective

Professor Emeritus Göran Therborn (University of Cambridge)

Missing in the currently predominant literature on cities  is a perspective of cities in contexts of power and politics, of cities as part of systems of power.

Revolution Then and Now

Dr Stathis Kouvelakis (King’s College London), Kate Evans (cartoonist, artist, and activist), John Rees (writer and activist)

The revolutionary tradition has a long history, and revolutionaries have inspired subsequent generations in fighting for a world free of exploitation, oppression and class distinctions.

Ground Down By Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India

There is a special conference being organised on 9 December called Ground Down By Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India, which is now part of the Development Studies Seminar Series. The event is free but ticketed, and can be booked through the link below. Please circulate widely to interested colleagues and students. The event will be held in the Brunei Gallery where the exhibition 'Behind the Indian Boom' is taking place.

Neoliberal Dogmatism: The IMF and the Arab Spring,

Gilbert Achcar and Hassan Sherry

The Catastrophic Consequences of Neoliberal Dogmatism in the MENA Region

The neoliberal doctrine's postulates are completely inconsistent with the realities of the MENA region. They have produced catastrophic results, which laid the ground for the regional upheaval known as the 'Arab Spring'. And yet, the IMF keeps advocating more of the same.

Book Launch - Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis

Matteo Rizzo

How does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism? Who has the power to influence its changing shape over time? What does it mean to be a precarious and informal worker in the private minibuses that provide such transport in Dar es Salaam? These are the main questions that inform this in-depth case study of Dar es Salaam’s public transport system over more than forty years.

Policies for Investment and Equality-led Sustainable Development in the Age of Globalisation and Financialisation

Özlem Onaran

This talk presents the empirical evidence about the race to the bottom in labour’s share in income in developing countries and the linkages between financialisation, income distribution, growth, investment and productivity. The presentation concludes with alternative progressive policies based on a coordinated policy mix of wage increases and public investment, and addresses the political aspects and barriers to an equality-led development.

Islamophobia in the Name of Women's Rights

Sara Farris

In her presentation Sara Farris will discuss some of the themes laid out in her new book, In the Name of Women's Rights. The Rise of Femonationalism (Duke, 2017). Farris' book explores the ways in which feminist ideas are often exploited by anti-Islam and xenophobic campaigns.

South Africa's Corporatised Liberation: An ANC and a Country in Crisis

Dale McKinley

South Africa’s democracy is in trouble and so too is the African National Congress, the country’s governing party since the defeat of apartheid in 1994. Despite the more general advances that have been made under the ANC’s rule, power has not only remained in the hands of a small minority but has increasingly been exercised in service to capital.

History from Below after the Transnational Turn: The Case of a Forgotten 18th-century Revolutionary

Marcus Rediker

This lecture will survey the theory, methods, and scholarship of “history from below” after the recent move in many disciplines toward a global frame of analysis. The talk reconstructs the largely forgotten life history of Benjamin Lay (1682-1759), a Quaker dwarf who worked around the Atlantic as a shepherd, a sailor, a glover, and a commoner and became one of the first to demand the total and unconditional emancipation of enslaved Africans worldwide.

Inequality and Insurrection

Danny Dorling

Insurrection is an uprising. Analysts and commentators on inequality have long warned that if inequality is allowed to rise too high there will be insurrection. Thomas Piketty suggested this is why elites should concern themselves with inequality. Politicians often confuse sounding as if they care about inequality with actually caring. This talk provides some illustrations of how things fall apart as inequality rises, when it is high and when it is tolerated.

How to Deal with Truth and Post-truth in Climate Change Politics

Tim Forsyth

Much current concern about climate change politics focuses on the divide between climate science and climate denialism. This talk will argue that this dichotomy can often reduce the complexity by which we understand climate risks, and for understanding why people are, or are not, vulnerable to climate change.

Development in Crisis: States, Conflicts, Refugees. Celebrating 25 Years of Development Studies at SOAS

Professor Gilbert Achcar, Professor Chris Cramer, Dr Laura Hammond, Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Professor James Putzel, Chaired by Dr Zoë Marriage

Since Development Studies was first taught at SOAS 25 years ago, the SOAS Department of Development Studies has provided critical perspectives on a wide range of issues that have gone on to shape development theory and practice.

Capitalism and the Sea: Sovereignty, Territory and Accumulation in the Global Ocean

Dr Liam Campling, Alejandro Colás

We introduce the term ‘terraqueous territoriality’ to analyse a particular relationship between capitalism as a social formation, and the sea as a natural force. Focusing on three spaces – exclusive economic zones (EEZs), the system of ‘flags of convenience’, and multilateral counter-piracy initiatives.

The Russian Revolution and Global Development: Lessons from the First Hundred Years

Tariq Ali, Professor August H. Nimtz, Professor Tamás Krausz

The Russian Revolution was the greatest anti-capitalist uprising in history, and from its origins, sparked controversy, chaos, imagination and hope. It began with the dismantling of the Tsarist autocracy in February 1917 and its replacement with a provisional government; by October, the provisional government was also overthrown.

Economic Inequality and Gender Inequality

Professor Diane Elson

Economic inequality is now of major concern to both mainstream and heterodox economists.  Gender inequality has always been of major concern to feminist economists, but is often ignored by both mainstream and heterodox economists. This talk will explore the intersections between these two aspects of inequality and discuss what difference it makes if gender is brought  into analysis of economic inequality.

Power and Patriarchy in India: How State-led ‘Women’s Empowerment’ Undermines Women’s Movements

Kavita Krishnan

Does the state confer ‘empowerment’ on women? Can it ‘empower’ without acknowledging and resisting the structures that ‘disempower’ women? In India, state-led ‘women’s empowerment’ campaigns often draw on and reinforce patriarchal ideology.

Violent Past, Hot Present, Extreme Future: Episodes of Fossil Imperialism and Climate Change in Egypt, India and Nigeria

Andreas Malm

Global warming is lapping the shores of countries in the global South with a whole fleet of existential threats. But this is not the first time fossil fuel combustion has visited them. This talk will focus on three places where the British Empire used steamboats to subjugate distant populations and appropriate their resources: Egypt, India and Nigeria, all targets of nineteenth-century imperial expansion powered by coal.

Retail Shift: Transforming Work and Gender in Global Production

Professor Stephanie Barrientos

The expansion of global retail has significant implications for analysis of work and gender. Within the retail sector supermarkets, agrifood and manufacturing brands play a central role transforming production, processing, distribution and consumption across developed and developing countries.

Demolishing Neoliberal Development Myths

Professor Jayati Ghosh, Professor Erik S. Reinert, Professor Rainer Kattel,

The editors of the Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development attempt to cover a huge canvas, in both time and geography, in order to illustrate processes of economic development from many different angles, with authors of the different chapters hailing from all continents.

Anti-Value in Marx

Professor David Harvey

At the end of the very first section of Capital, after offering an initial definition of the labor theory of value, Marx observes that "nothing can be of value without being an object of utility.

The Sweatshop Regime: Labouring Bodies, Exploitation and Garments Made in India

Dr Alessandra Mezzadri

This book explores the processes producing and reproducing the garment sweatshop in India.

Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises

Anwar Shaikh

Competition and conflict are intrinsic features of modern societies. Inequality is persistent, and booms andbusts are recurrent outcomes throughout capitalist history. State intervention modifies these patterns butdoes not abolish them.

Merchant Capitalism, Peasant Households, and Industrial Accumulation: Integration of a Model

Professor Jairus Banaji (Department of Development Studies, SOAS, UK)

Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis

Professor Adam Morton (Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney, Australia) and Professor Andreas Bieler (School of Politics and International Relations, Nottingham University, UK)

The Development of Underdevelopment in the UK

Professor Colin Leys (Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University, Canada and Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)

Why is Inequality So Unequal Across the World?

Dr Gabriel Palma (Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, UK)

The Extreme Centre: How the Neoliberal Project Has Reshaped the World

Tariq Ali (writer, filmmaker and editor of New Left Review)

Transformative Politics and the Solidarity Economy

Professor Michelle Williams and Dr Vishwas Satgar (School of Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)

Popular Representations of Development: Creating Global Alliances or Reproducing Inequalities?

Professor Uma Kothari (School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, UK)

Economic Policy: From Market Fixing to Market Making and Creating

Professor Mariana Mazzucato (Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, UK)

Contesting the Intensification of Women's Labour in Neoliberal India

Dr Kalpana Wilson (Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)

Women's Empowerment, Neoliberal Development and Global Justice

Professor Andrea Cornwall (School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK)

Is There a Global Movement for Environmental Justice?

Professor Joan Martinez-Alier (Department of Economics and Economic History, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)

From Zorro to Zombie: Explaining the Dramatic Rise and Fall of the Microcredit Model as Development Policy

Dr Milford Bateman (Department of Economics and Tourism, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia, and St Mary’s University, Canada)

Updating Cuba's Economic Model, Socialism and Human Development

Professor Al Campbell (Department of Economics, University of Utah, USA)

Rules for the World Market

Professor Paul Cammack (Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong, China)

A Critique of the Theory and Policy of the New Consensus Macroeconomics

Professor Philip Arestis (Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK)

Feeding the World: Why Malthus is Still Wrong

Dr Elaine Graham-Leigh

Are Emerging Markets Still Developing? And What is Development Anyway?

Professor Jayati Ghosh (School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India)

Globalisation and the Critique of Political Economy: New Insights from Marx's Writings

Dr Lucia Pradella (SOAS)

All welcome, no booking required.

The Limits of Hybridity and the Crisis of Liberal Peace

Dr Dave Rampton (LSE), Dr Sutha Nadarajah (SOAS)

All welcome, no booking required.

Rethinking the Conflict and Security Implications of Climate Change

Prof Jan Selby (Sussex)

All welcome, no booking required.

Rural Cooperatives and Fair Trade

Prof Chris Cramer (SOAS)

All welcome, no booking required.

Flip-Flop: A Journey Through Globalisation's Backroads

Prof Caroline Knowles (Goldsmith)

All welcome, no booking required.

After the Honeymoon? The Next decade of South-South Development Cooperation

Prof Emma Mawdsley (Cambridge)

All welcome, no booking required.

Technopopulism, Affective Politics and the Making of 'Modi' as Development Man

Dr Subir Sinha (SOAS)

All welcome, no booking required.

Transit States: Labour, Migration and Citizenship in the Gulf

Dr A. Khalaf (Lund), Dr O. AlShehabi (GCDP), Dr A. Hanieh (SOAS)

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Polarizing Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis (Book Launch)

Dr Thomas Marois (Development Studies, SOAS)

Building Utopian Transformation: social justice and public space in David Harvey’s writings

Marcio Valenca (Professorial Research Associate, Development Studies, SOAS)

Nepal's 2010 general strike: A moment of truth

Dr Feyzi Ismail (Development Studies, SOAS)

Andean Labyrinth: The New Left in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela

Jeff Webber (School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary)

East Asia: Slippery Floor for the Left

Dae-oup Chang (Development Studies, SOAS)

Dying for an iPhone: The Struggle of China's New Working Class

Jenny Chan (Contemporary China Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford)

Development or Maldevelopment? Ontology, Deontology and other Perplexities: Models and Muddles from East Asia and the BRICS during the Latest Phase of Global Capitalist Crisis

Haider A. Khan (Univeristy of Denver)

Land and Freedom: The MST, the Zapatistas and Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism (book launch)

Dr Leandro Vergara-Camus (Development Studies, SOAS)

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Book Launch “Trade Unions in China: The Challenge of Labour Unrest”

Tim Pringle (Lecturer in Development Studies, SOAS)

Palliative Development: Moving Beyond the Limits of the Developmentalist State

Samuel Cohn (Professor, Department of Sociology, Texas A & M University; Professorial Research Associate in Development Studies, SOAS)

Exchange Rate Management in a Natural Resource Dominated Economy: the case of Zambia, 2002-2013

John Weeks (Professor Emeritus, SOAS, Development Studies)

Book Launch “The Global Development Crisis”

Benjamin Selwyn (Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Sussex)

Geographies of Capital and Labour in Mekong Southeast Asia: Border SEZs and Cross-border Regionalism

Dennis Arnold (Assistant Professor, Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development, University of Amsterdam)

Book Launch “Migrants, Borders and Global Capitalism: West African labour mobility and EU borders”

Hannah Cross (Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster)

Book launch “The Poverty of Capitalism: Economic Meltdown and the Struggle for What Comes Next"

John Hilary (Executive Director of War on Want)

New Developmentalism and the Origin of Methodological Nationalism in the Analysis of Development

Lucia Pradella (University of Venice, Ca' Foscari, and SOAS, Development Studies)

Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry: Money, Discipline and the Surplus Population

Susanne Soederberg (Political Studies, Queen's University)

This event has been organised by the Neoliberalism, Globalisation, and States Research Cluster

The Lost Logic of State-owned Banking for Development

Thomas Marois (Development Studies, SOAS)

The war for biodiversity: the politics of remilitarising anti poaching in Sub-Saharan Africa

Rosaleen Duffy (Development, SOAS)

Clusters, Value Chains and Labour Standards: From Football to the Rising Powers

Khalid Nadvi (Development, SED, Manchester)

Finance and the [re]structuring of production; foregrounding production in the process of financialisation

Susan Newman (Economics, ISS Rotterdam)

Revolutions and Development

Vicken Chetarian (Development Studies, SOAS)

Predatory growth in India. A critique and an alternative

Aseem Shrivastava (Environmental economist and writer)

Routes, Transport, Land: Managing Mobility in the Himalayan Borderlands

Tina Harris (Sociology & Anthropology, University of Amsterdam)

Greece, Financialization and the EU. The Political Economy of Debt and Destruction

Vassilis Fouksas (International Politics, University of East London)

Producing urban asylum: forced migration and the city

Jonathan Darling (Geography, Manchester)

What's hot and what's not in development?

Duncan Green (Oxfam)

Basic Income in India: Piloting Unconditional Cash Transfers

Guy Standing (Department of Development Studies, SOAS)

Rethinking Development: China’s Development ‘Model’

Jennifer Hsu (Political Science, Alberta)

Macroeconomic Impact of Capital Flight on sub-Saharan Countries

John Weeks (Department of Economics, SOAS)

Gender, Law and Justice in a Global Market

Ann Stewart (School of Law, Warwick University)

Aid and reconstruction in Haiti: A panel discussion to mark the anniversary of the 2010 earthquake

Peter Hallward (Kingston University), Andrew Leak (UCL and Haiti Solidarity Group) and Chiara Liguori (Amnesty International)

When daughters migrate and mothers do not: girl children workers in India

Deepita Chakravarty (Department of Economics, SOAS)

Recovering Internationalism: Creating The New Global Solidarity

Peter Waterman (Network Institute for Global Democracy (Helsinki); Programa De Estudios Sobre Democracia y Transformacion Global (Lima) & Critical Action: Centre in Movement (New Delhi))

Is there a labour movement in China?

Tim Pringle (Dept. of Development Studies, SOAS)

(Re)Producing Labour: The Economies of Transnational Commercial Surrogacy

Prabha Kotiswaran (School of Law, King’s College London)

Politics of Pension Reform: A Feminist Reading of Collective Resistance

Kanchana Ruwanpura (Dept. of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton)

No teeth, but lovely gums! Why the first Alkire Foster Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index for South Africa was wrong (and the second not much better)

Charles Meth (Dept. of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield & School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal)

Globalisation, health and work: Chilean women workers and the Engelian Fallacy

Jasmine Gideon (Dept. of Geography, Environment and Development Studies, Birkbeck, University of London)

The Millennium Development Goals And Ambitious Developmental Engineering

Clive Gabay, Dpt. of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London

Seminar to start at 5.30pm.

Moving out of war: Postwar statebuilding in Southeast Asia

Claire Smith (University of York)

Turning Peasants into Soldiers? Securitized development, militarization and nationalism in Sri Lanka

Jonathan Goodhand, David Rampton (SOAS) Rajesh Venugopal (LSE)

Global Growth, Employment and Macro Policy: Options to consider in 2012 - The debates without and within the ILO

Moazam Mahmood (ILO)

The Director of the Economic and Labour Market Analysis Department, ILO, discusses the 2012 Global Employment Trends Report

Angola and the local politics of civil war

Justin Pearce (Post Doctoral Fellow, SOAS)

I'm a policymaker get me out of here! The dilemmas of putting conflict policy into practice at DFID

Mark Segal, DFID, Senior Conflict Advisor

“Organisational Voluntarism”: Pure gifts, dirty money and the field of social action in India

Brendan Donegan (SOAS)

Should we double aid or halve it? A defining development question for the 21st century

Jonathan Glennie (ODI)

Working with civil society templates: experts, entrepreneurs and volunteers in rural Tanzania

Claire Mercer (LSE)

The Changing Distribution of Global Poverty: Methodological Questions and Implications for Development Studies

Andy Sumner (Research Fellow, IDS, University of Sussex)

Reconsidering debates on the developmental state

Subir Sinha & Dae-Oup Chang (SOAS)

Development Within or Against Capitalism: A Critical Engagement with Amartya Sen’s 'Development as Freedom'

Ben Selwyn (Sussex Univeristy)

The Pitfalls of Water Privatisation: Failure and Reform in Malaysia

Jeff Tan (AKU-ISMC, Assistant Professor)

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

Ha-Joon Chang (Cambridge Univeristy)

Struggles in Bolivia

Jeffrey Webber (Queen Mary, UoL)

Impact of Global Instability on sub-Saharan Countries: National Policy Responses

John Weeks (SOAS, Professor Emeritus)

‘Fool me once, shame on you: fool me twice, shame on me’ - From Microfinance to Social Business: Exploring the Fantasy Worlds of Muhammad Yunus

Milford Bateman (Independent Consultant)

Multidimensional Poverty Index 2011: New Country Results, Changes Over Time and Sub-national Decompositions

Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, Director)

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The precariat strikes back? Reflections on the possibilities for claiming labour rights under neoliberalism (a Tanzanian study)

Matteo Rizzo (SOAS)

Karl Marx, Frederik List and the Political Economy of Late Development

Ben Selwyn

The Great Chinese Famine

Chris Brammal (SOAS)

Small-Scale Fishing in the Bijagos Islands, Guinea Bissau: A Comparison of Local and Migrant Trading Strategies

Helen Cross (UCL)

Work after Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship

Guy Standing (Bath / ILO)

Pakistan 1950-2009: Dependency, States, and Markets

Matthew McCartney (SOAS)

Just Give Money to the Poor

Joseph Hanlon (Open University)

Agricultural Labour in Boomtown Bangalore: Class Relations and the Circulation of Labour in Karnataka, South India

Jon Pattenden (UEA)

The History of Adult Education in 1960s Tanzania, and implications for broader development ideologies in the country

Mike Jennings (SOAS)

Power, Profit and Prestige. A History of American Imperial Expansion

Philip Golub (IEE, Université Paris 8)

The 'Art of coercion': Organised violence and state-building

Antonio Giustozzi (CSRC, London School of Economics)

What is Development Studies for?

Henry Bernstein (SOAS)

From One-by-Two to Coffee Day The Sociology of Coffee Drinking in South India

Peter Mollinga (SOAS)

Peacebuilding without using the word peace: NGOs' strategies of reputational management during the peace to war transition in Sri Lanka 2006-7

Oliver Walton (University of Birmingham)

Clean Fake: navigating 'legal residence' in migrant Moscow

Madeleine Reeves (CRESC, Manchester University)

Mind the gap! Urban Poverty reduction vs. the reality of being poor in Tanzania

Matteo Rizzo (Cambridge University)

Rethinking the Imperial Difference: reflections on US-Latin American encounters

David Slater (Loughborough University)

Has the current global financial crisis created opportunities for firms

Lutao Ning (Durham University)

The Social-Religious Origins of the Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement (MST)

Michael Löwy (IIRE)

Colonial Interventions and Postcolonial Transformations

Uma Khotari (IDPM, Manchester)

Aid to Fragile States:The Provision of Budget Support in Difficult Circumstances

Nicola Pontara (World Bank)

Conditional cash transfers in Latin America: Neoliberal targeting or a move towards social inclusion?

Diego Sánchez-Ancochea (Oxford University)

India: The Political Economy of Growth

Dr Matthew McCartney (SOAS)

Industrial Policy: Can We Go Beyond an Unproductive Confrontation?”

Ha Joon Chang

Hierarchies of Power, Space and Bodies: Towards an understanding of Genocidal Violence in Africa

Patricia Daley, Oxford University

Parliamentary Capacity Building in Africa

Hugh Baily, MP

Global Economic Restructuring, Labour and Unemployment in Brazil: Challenges to Trade Unions and Social Movements

Ricardo Antunes, Unicamp, Brazil

The Tangled Web of Associational Life: Informal Enterprise Associations and Popular Governance in Nigeria

Kate Meagher; LSE

Global Standards and Local Responses: A comparative study of two South Asian clusters

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