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every 79 days
Average audio length:
39 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United Kingdom
11 episodes
since Jan. 8, 2024
episodic

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This episode features Chandni Dwarkasing, Lecturer in Economics at SOAS and a researcher in SOAS’ Work Beyond Labour group, in conversation with Thabo Huntgeburth, a SOAS PhD Candidate in Development Economics . Drawing on her research in ecological economics and labour studies, Dwarkasing explores…

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Adam Hanieh, the Director of the SOAS Middle East Institute, MBI Jaber Chair of Middle East Studies and Professor in the Development Studies Department at SOAS, joins Rida Fathima, an MSc Global Development student at SOAS, to discuss the blockade of the strait of Hormuz and the cascading consequen…
 This episode features Jonathan Dumont, an Emmy Award–winning journalist and senior United Nations humanitarian official, in conversation with SOAS MSc Humanitarian, Aid and Conflict students Lynn Tabbara and Hassan Karmali. Drawing on more than four decades of reporting from conflict zones and hum…
This episode of the SOAS Global Developments Podcast Series features Carlos Oya, Professor of Political Economy and Head of the Department of Development Studies at SOAS University of London, in conversation with Naomi Hossain, Global Research Professor of Development Studies. They explore the comp…
25 March 2025 Sara Stevano, senior lecturer at SOAS Department of Economics, in conversation with Surbhi Kesar, explores the concept of social reproduction as a critical lens for understanding economic activities, particularly in the Global South.  Sara Stevano argues that social reproduction encom…
Surbhi Kesar, lecturer at SOAS Department of Economics, in conversation with Sara Stevano, provides a comprehensive analysis of the informal economy, challenging traditional economic development theories by demonstrating how postcolonial economies persistently reproduce informal economic structures…
28 February 2023 This episode features a conversation between Professor Carlos Oya from SOAS, and Khalid Abu-Ismail, Senior Economist at United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and lead report author of “World Development Challenges Report: Development from a broader …
5 Avril 2023 "Afghanistan in Archives" is the first of a two-part episode, a group of SOAS scholars, Florence Shahabi, Zeynep Tuba Sungur, Barry Sadid, and Bismellah Alizada, examine the role of archives in shaping nationalism, identity and the state, both in the past and present. They ex…
19 May 2023The latest conversation in the DevTraC Podcast Series is part two of the Afghan podcast where Bismellah Alizada, Reza Hussaini, Rabia Khan, and Zarifa Hosseini discuss the struggles encountered by Afghan migrants seeking a new home, both as individuals and as a group on the move. Through…
30 June 2023Guy Standing, Professorial Research Associate in Development Studies at SOAS discusses his latest book, “The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea” with  Chris Cramer, Professor at SOAS, highlighting the role of corporates in prioritising profits over planet, and de-commoning ou…
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