Informant culture is so embedded in everyday Iranian life that there are common Persian terms to describe it.

By Rajesh Raj S N and Kunal Sen India’s informal economy is often discussed through the lives of its workers: low wages, insecure employment and the absence of social protection. All these issues matt...

Recent confrontations in Tigray are a sign that the 2022 peace process has seriously derailed.

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Building a high-integrity biodiversity credit market requires recognition of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities as stewards of nature. Including culturally salient species as a metric in the mea...

Music created the networks, identities and spaces of trust that made collective political action possible in Sudan’s 2019 revolution.

An opportunity for a one-year Policy Fellowship with BRICS+ Thinking.

India has been quietly doing something that most countries can only dream of: growing its forest cover on a massive scale. Between 2014 and 2024, the country added about 2.1 million hectares, or rough...

An ambitious analysis challenges the view that a nation’s pursuit of economic growth alone can deliver long-term prosperity.

In recent years, many cities worldwide have witnessed a dynamic shift in their urban economic landscapes, driven by the rapid rise of digital platforms that intersect with urban governance. Despite...

In this episode - recorded on location in Kampala, Uganda during an African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC) workshop in late April - we delve into questions of how urban communities in informal sett...

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With wars, financial crises, and energy crises, global trade seems to be suffering. But is globalisation on the way out? Or can it reinvent itself?

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This lecture will examine whether political representation by indigenous communities supports forest conservation or drives greater resource extraction.

The violence in Tigray was structured, targeted and sustained.

Universities as global institutions face a disconnect with their localities, can urban reform coalitions can play a key role in repairing this relationship.