Final summary: Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene

Gabriela Marques di Giulio shares with us her concluding thoughts on the IGDC/YESI Webinar ‘Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene’ in the final blog of the series. This blog series accompanies the YouTube videos available in English and Portuguese. Co-host of the event, Gabriela Marques di Giulio, joins us for this concluding blog … Continue reading Final summary: Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene

Gendered repertoires of contention: women’s resistance, authoritarian state formation, and land grabbing in Cambodia

IGDC Member Saba Joshi shares with us her  IFJP blog about women’s collective action and resistance against land dispossession in contemporary Cambodia, following her ENLOE AWARD winning article on the subject.  On 7 August 2022, as she was sworn in as vice president of Colombia, Francia Marquez Mina created history. Marquez’s career, “from maid to Colombia’s first Black vice-president”, is … Continue reading Gendered repertoires of contention: women’s resistance, authoritarian state formation, and land grabbing in Cambodia

Coordinated policy responses to health, biodiversity and climate emergencies

Helena Ribeiro shares with us her thoughts on coordinated policy responses to health, biodiversity and climate emergencies in the blogs in this series based on the IGDC/YESI Webinar event ‘Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene.’ Helena joined us in this webinar to discuss coordinated policy responses to health, biodiversity and climate emergencies. Conflicts … Continue reading Coordinated policy responses to health, biodiversity and climate emergencies

Emergency framing and alternative futures

Peter Sutoris shares with us his thoughts on emergency framing and alternative futures in the thirteenth blog in this series based on the IGDC/YESI Webinar event ‘Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene.’ Peter Sutoris’s research interests include the anthropology of development, the role of education in development, cross-cultural scalability of development interventions, development … Continue reading Emergency framing and alternative futures

Communicating and financing responses to future risks

Jon Gascoigne shares with us his thoughts on communicating and financing responses to future risks in the twelfth blog in this series based on the IGDC/YESI Webinar event ‘Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene.’ Jon Gascoigne’s work includes technical assistance for international disaster risk finance schemes and evidence and learning around climate risk. … Continue reading Communicating and financing responses to future risks

Emergency framing for climate, environment and livelihoods

Lindsay Stringer shares with us her thoughts on emergency framing for climate, environment and livelihoods in the eleventh blog in this series based on the IGDC/YESI Webinar event ‘Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene.’ Lindsay’s research focuses on human-environment relationships, particularly the links between livelihoods and environmental change, and the practical and policy … Continue reading Emergency framing for climate, environment and livelihoods

Human rights in emergency response

Deisy Ventura shares with us her experiences of human rights in emergency response in the tenth blog in this series based on the IGDC/YESI Webinar event ‘Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene.’ Deisy Ventura’s research focuses on the human rights situation during international health emergencies. Deisy joined us in this webinar to discuss … Continue reading Human rights in emergency response

Policy and emergency responses

Gale Rigobert shares with us her thoughts on policy and emergency responses in the ninth blog in this series based on the IGDC/YESI Webinar event ‘Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene.’ Gale Rigobert specialises in International Relations and political leadership and representation. Gale joined us in this webinar to discuss her thoughts and … Continue reading Policy and emergency responses

Empirical experiences of communicating risk and response

Renzo Taddei shares with us his empirical experiences of communicating risk and response in the eighth blog in this series based on the IGDC/YESI Webinar event ‘Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene.’ Renzo Taddei’s research focuses on the socio-cultural dimensions of how humans relate to the atmosphere. Renzo joined us in this webinar … Continue reading Empirical experiences of communicating risk and response

Agricultural child labour: A persistent global issue seemingly immune to eradication attempts

With recent estimates reporting an increase in instances of child labour, IGDC PhD Researcher Charlotte Bagshaw explores in this blog whether, more than twenty years on, are we any further forward to eliminating child labour from agricultural production? Child labour is not a social issue confined to the history books, and it currently affects the … Continue reading Agricultural child labour: A persistent global issue seemingly immune to eradication attempts