Inter University Centre for Social Science Research and Extension (IUCSSRE), Mahatma Gandhi University is organizing The First Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Lecture on 30 September 2021 in association with the Institute for Global South Studies and Research (IGSSR).
The inaugural Lecture...
The Group of 77 (G77), consisting of 134 developing countries, concluded a two-day summit in Havana, Cuba, with a call for a new global order. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who chairs the organization, emphasized that it's time for the...
The state and society of Kerala continue to evince multiple social complexities notwithstanding the much-touted feats in human development. One of the critical challenges of this complexity is the phenomenon of social exclusion, and it still remains problematic for...
By Richard Pithouse / GlobetrotterXenophobia is a global crisis, but in South Africa, it takes a particularly violent form. The day-to-day accumulation of insult and harassment from within the state and society periodically mutates into open-street violence in which...
UNDP invites you to the first Future of Development public conversation between Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, and Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator.
Amartya Sen introduced the concept of development of freedom. He was also, along...
An interview with Fatma Alloo (Interview by Heba M. Khalil)
Fatma Alloo (of the Tanzania Media Women's Association) on how women used the media and cultural spaces to organize and challenge gender norms.
Fatma Alloo’s activism grew in the decades following...
Originally published in Colombo Gazette 2 November 2020
Leave aside the unilateral US rebuke of the UNHRC for voting in ‘authoritarian States’ into the 47-member Council, elected on rotation of sorts for two-year terms, in the case of Sri Lanka, the...
By Sanjay Roy
WORLD Inequality Report 2022 underlines the sharp divide between the rich and the poor that occurred as a result of neoliberal policies pursued by global capital using the hegemonic and asymmetric architecture of global institutions. The report...
