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Blog Post: Winds of Change? The Political Present and Futures in South Asia
In June, India’s national elections brought Narendra Modi back to power, although with fewer seats for his political party, the BJP, a hopeful push-back against the authoritarian onslaught in every sphere of social life. A month later, Bangladesh quaked the sub-continent after a student-led revolt resulted in the ousting of prime minister Sheikh Hasina following much state violence.
CGD Working Paper: Socionature Hybrids: Power and Inequity in Environmental Solutions
Dr Shivani Singhal authors the latest paper in the CGD working paper series.
Blog Post: Rebuilding the Ecuadorian left in the rubble of neoliberal austerity
Congratulations to CGD co-director Dr Geoff Goodwin who has published the following blog: Rebuilding the Ecuadorian left in the rubble of neoliberal austerity.
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The seductive simple ‘solutions’ of social enterprise and circular economy hide more complex political dynamics in providing safely managed sanitation for all.
The ubiquitous contemporary notion of global challenges often sits side by side with the search for grand solutions. Typically, social entrepreneurs occupy a heroic space...
Fantasy indicators are masking the real problems in achieving the SDGs. It is time for some difficult conversations with the indicator industrial complex.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present an enticing vision for global progress, promising unified action across multiple spheres such as social equity, environmental sustainability, and...
Events
Getting Published: How should I approach writing a journal article or working paper?
This hybrid writing workshop will be facilitated by Dr Geoff Goodwin, Co-Director of the CGD.
Crafting the Flow: The Intersectional Complexities of Water Security Conference
Register to attend The conference on Water Security and Intersectionality invites scholars, researchers, activists, artists, and practitioners to participate in...
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The Centre for Global Development was established in 1984 as an interdisciplinary network, integrating research and expertise across the University of Leeds, addressing the transformation of human societies in response to critical global challenges such as poverty, inequality and climate change.
We are now a hub for research and engagement on the politics of global development, rooted in the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS). We form one of the central pillars of our School's aim to address the politics of global challenges. We engage with critical understandings of past, present and future global transformations from the local to the global scale. Intellectually we are unified by a commitment to analysing how politics and power produce and perpetuate multiple intersecting inequalities, as well as exploring ideas and practices of ‘just’ transformations in human societies.
This work is rooted in critical development studies and the political economy of development. We are no longer specifically focused on ‘developing’ countries or the ‘Global South’: the interconnected challenges of poverty, inequality and climate change demand global understandings.
CGD has a long history of interdisciplinarity and membership is open across the University of Leeds. Our core membership is in POLIS in the social sciences and in critical development studies, but the nature of development studies means that we rarely work in isolation. We actively seek collaboration between the natural and physical sciences, engineering, medical sciences and the humanities. Our researchers are actively involved in collaborations and partnerships with external agencies such as the UN, national governments, NGOs and civil society organisations.