History of Global Development
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The Center for the History of Global Development is a research focus established at the College of Liberal Arts at Shanghai University. Through conferences, workshops, publications, and discussion panels, the Center seeks to contribute to interdisciplinary scholarly debates on the repercussions of development as a phenomenon that has shaped much of recent global history while remaining..
History of Global Development
1y ago
The lecture takes up the 1972 UN Human Environment conference: the first example of the attempted global governance of environmental issues and climate change that foundered on the challenges of development and North-South antagonisms. That history connects Delos, the ancient capital of the Athenian League, with the Club of Rome, and the New International Economic Order. The talk's specific aim is to recover the importance of business and intellectual networks, in all their problematic historical messiness and stir them back into our understanding of the changing character of ‘global’ imaginar ..read more
History of Global Development
1y ago
George Bob-Milliar is Senior Lecturer at the Department of History and Political Studies and Director of the Centre for Cultural and African Studies (CeCASt) at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on democratization in Africa, electoral politics in Ghana, informal economies, African Diaspora, and chieftaincy. He has been visiting fellow at various international universities currently edits the Journal of African Political Economy and Development (JAPED) and is member of the editorial board of African Affairs. In the last two-half decades party democracy ..read more
History of Global Development
2y ago
The lecture takes up the 1972 UN Human Environment conference: the first example of the attempted global governance of environmental issues and climate change that foundered on the challenges of development and North-South antagonisms. That history connects Delos, the ancient capital of the Athenian League, with the Club of Rome, and the New International Economic Order. The talk's specific aim is to recover the importance of business and intellectual networks, in all their problematic historical messiness and stir them back into our understanding of the changing character of ‘global’ imaginar ..read more
History of Global Development
2y ago
George Bob-Milliar is Senior Lecturer at the Department of History and Political Studies and Director of the Centre for Cultural and African Studies (CeCASt) at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on democratization in Africa, electoral politics in Ghana, informal economies, African Diaspora, and chieftaincy. He has been visiting fellow at various international universities currently edits the Journal of African Political Economy and Development (JAPED) and is member of the editorial board of African Affairs. In the last two-half decades party democracy ..read more
History of Global Development
3y ago
How did colonial development evolve and are their continuities with post colonial development? Do development doctrines influence work? How do development priorities change over time? Marc Frey, professor of international history at the Bundeswehr University, draws lessons on development from the Office du Niger, a large irrigation system in the river Niger. As one of the oldest developmental projects, the Office Du Niger is a prism through which larger shifts in development theories and practices can be analyzed over a long period of time. The podcast was recorded on April 22nd, 2021 as part ..read more
Kristin Linnerud & Erling Holden: Closing the Sustainability Gap A Global Study of Goal Interactions
History of Global Development
3y ago
The following episode is a recording from April 1st 2021. Achieving multiple sustainable goals is particularly challenging as meeting one goal can make achieving others more difficult. Linnerud and Holden have created a model of sustainable development consisting of six indicators and assign thresholds that define a sustainable development space. Through this model they are able to show which countries are better at reconciliation conflicting goals. Thank you for your interest in the Center for the History of Global Development. You may follow the center on Twitter: @HistGlobalDevel Instagram ..read more