56 épisodes

Long-form, personal conversations with international development and humanitarian aid practitioners, thinkers, activists, academics and more. Conversations center on lived experiences and reflections on ethical issues, power dynamics, systemic challenges and lessons learnt. Common themes: redistributing power, working with diverse stakeholders, negotiating partnerships, measuring impact, learning from mistakes, doing no harm, building trust, ensuring accountability, rejecting saviour complexes, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination, and much more. 

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Long-form, personal conversations with international development and humanitarian aid practitioners, thinkers, activists, academics and more. Conversations center on lived experiences and reflections on ethical issues, power dynamics, systemic challenges and lessons learnt. Common themes: redistributing power, working with diverse stakeholders, negotiating partnerships, measuring impact, learning from mistakes, doing no harm, building trust, ensuring accountability, rejecting saviour complexes, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination, and much more. 

    5.2 Development & the COVID 19 Pandemic

    5.2 Development & the COVID 19 Pandemic

    In this episode, Noaman and Safa reflect on the emergence, spread, political economy and impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on development work.


    ---> Link to Noaman's podcast ( Introduction to Political Economy). 

    • 57 min
    51. Decolonization is not a Metaphor

    51. Decolonization is not a Metaphor

    Referring to Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang's article "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor", Safa and Noaman discuss  the overuse and misuse of the term “decolonization” in the development sector and how Frantz Fanon and Amílcar Cabral can be role models for development workers.

    Links we mention:

    Intro to Political Economy Podcast with Noaman Ali

    Decolonization is not a Metaphor by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang

    • 49 min
    4.12 Rethinking Development Mixtape

    4.12 Rethinking Development Mixtape

    For our Season 4 finale, we share a compilation of clips from our past 50+ episodes! 

    • 25 min
    4.11 Indigenous Land Defense

    4.11 Indigenous Land Defense

    Daniel Kobei is the Founder and Executive Director of the Ogiek Peoples' Development Program,  a Kenyan NGO working to secure human and land rights for the Indigenous Ogiek community as well as other Indigenous peoples across Kenya and Africa. Daniel represents Indigenous peoples under the umbrella of the International Indigenous Forum for Biodiversity and the Collaborative Partnership for Wildlife Management, set by the Convention of Biological Diversity. Daniel has been promoting the restoration of the Mau Forest Complex through Ogiek community involvement as a forest dwelling, hunter gathering community. Daniel helped lead the Ogiek to winning an eight year legal battle over land and human rights abuses at the African Court on Human and People's Rights in 2017. But four years later, the Ogiek community are still waiting for the implementation of that legal judgment. 
    We speak about:
    the violation of the rights of the Ogiek community by the Kenyan stateresisting forced evictions & dispossession of ancestral landswining an 8 year long court case at the African Court on Human and People's Rights the support of regional and international Indigenous rights groups the undermining of Indigenous conservation knowledge the impact of climate change in the Mau Forest complex - and much more!Daniel joins us from Nairobi, Kenya.

    • 53 min
    4.10 A More Comprehensive Approach

    4.10 A More Comprehensive Approach

    Dr. Sabina Faiz Rashid is the Dean of the BRAC James P. Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University in Bangladesh. Dr. Rashid specializes in ethnographic and qualitative research with a focus on urban slum communities and marginalized groups. She's particularly interested in examining the impact of structural and intersectional factors on the ability of those populations to realize their health rights and access to services. In 2008, she founded the Center for Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, and in 2013, co-founded the Center for Urban Equity and Health. Both focus on research, capacity building and influencing program designs and policies in Bangladesh.  
    We speak about:
    BRAC’s approach to developmentco-thinking and co-creating with communities unpacking assumptions about the ‘Global South’ solution-based thinking  competency based learningbuilding a youth friendly research culturedecolonizing global health - and much more!   She joins us from Dhaka, Bangladesh.

    • 48 min
    4.9 Degrowth

    4.9 Degrowth

    Giorgos Kallis is an ecological economist, political ecologist, and Professor at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology in the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies. His research is motivated by a quest to cross conceptual divides between the social and the natural domains, with particular focus on the political-economic roots of environmental degradation and its uneven distribution along lines of power, income, and class. His current work explores the hypothesis of sustainable degrowth as a solution to the dual economic and ecological crisis. Giorgos is the author of the books 'Limits' and 'The Case for Degrowth'. 
    We speak about:
    his intellectual journey and working across disciplinesthe history of the hegemony of growth  degrowth as one critique of capitalist economies 3 layers of articulating degrowth the climate crisis degrowth in high income countries vs. low income countries collective action and international solidaritiesengaging with a pluriverse of alternatives to capitalist growth - and much more!  He joins us from Barcelona, Spain.  

    • 46 min

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