We are back! In this episode, Noaman and Safa reflect on the emergence, spread, political economy and impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on development work. Transcript Safa: We are back recording. It's been a month since we released our first episode. Thanks to everyone who tuned in and helped amplify. I am back with Noaman Ali. Hi Noaman! Noaman: Hi Safa, how are you? Safa: Good. How are you? Noaman: Not bad, not bad. Glad to be here again. Safa: Excellent. We're happy to be back and have a chance to speak about some of these issues in light of rethinking development and the political ec ..read more

  As Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang teach us, decolonization is not a metaphor. It is a political project. Tune in to hear how the overuse and misuse of the term “decolonization” in the development sector needs to be questioned and how Frantz Fanon and Amílcar Cabral can be role models for development workers. Links we refer to: Intro to Political Economy Podcast with Noaman Ali Decolonization is not a Metaphor by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang Transcript Safa: Hello and welcome back to the Rethinking Development Podcast. Normally at this point, I would say: My name is Safa and I'm your host - b ..read more

  In our Season 4 finale, we share a compilation of clips from our past 50+ episodes! Transcript Safa: Hi, everyone. Welcome back to the Rethinking Development podcast. My name is Safa and I'm your host. In the last episode of our fourth season, I'd like to celebrate a milestone with all of you. A few weeks ago, we hit our 50th episode! Over the past 4 seasons, we've had tens of thousands of listeners joining us for more than 160 countries. And we want to thank each and every one of you for your support. And of course, a big thank you to our guests who have each generously shared their pe ..read more

  Daniel Kobei is the Founder and Executive Director of the Ogiek Peoples’ Development Program, a Kenyan NGO working to secure human and land rights for the Indigenous Ogiek community as well as other Indigenous peoples across Kenya and Africa. Daniel represents Indigenous peoples under the umbrella of the International Indigenous Forum for Biodiversity and the Collaborative Partnership for Wildlife Management, set by the Convention of Biological Diversity. Daniel has been promoting the restoration of the Mau Forest Complex through Ogiek community involvement as a forest dwelling, hunter ..read more

  Dr. Sabina Faiz Rashid is the Dean of the BRAC James P. Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University in Bangladesh. Dr. Rashid specializes in ethnographic and qualitative research with a focus on urban slum communities and marginalized groups. She's particularly interested in examining the impact of structural and intersectional factors on the ability of those populations to realize their health rights and access to services. In 2008, she founded the Center for Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, and in 2013, co-founded the Center for Urban Equity and Health. Both foc ..read more

  Giorgos Kallis is an ecological economist, political ecologist, and Professor at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology in the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies. His research is motivated by a quest to cross conceptual divides between the social and the natural domains, with particular focus on the political-economic roots of environmental degradation and its uneven distribution along lines of power, income, and class. His current work explores the hypothesis of sustainable degrowth as a solution to the dual economic and ecological crisis. Giorgos ..read more

  Mahrukh 'Maya' Hasan is as a designer, researcher and strategic advisor who helps social impact organizations build joyful, equitable and innovative teams. She is the Founder and Director of Azura Labs, a social design and research studio that builds the capacity of international NGOs and UN agencies. She is also on the leadership team of the “50 Shades of Aid” facebook group, a global support and advocacy network of more than 25,000 humanitarian aid workers. Recently Maya launched the Fearless Project, a diversity, equity and inclusion firm, which aims to champion trust, belonging and ..read more

  Andrea Cornwall is currently Pro Director of Research and Enterprise and Professor of Global Development and Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She is a political anthropologist and her research focuses on power, inclusion and rights. Some of her work has focused on reproductive and sexual health in Zimbabwe and Nigeria, citizen participation and accountability in health policy and governance in the UK and Brazil, and contestations over gender, empowerment, and rights in international development. We speak about: applying an anthrop ..read more

  Shanthini Naidoo is a South African writer and former Sunday Times journalist. She is the author of the book which in South Africa is entitled: "Women in Solitary: Inside the Female Resistance to Apartheid" and in North America is entitled: "Women Surviving Apartheid Prisons". The book uses rich interview material to share the stories of four anti apartheid women leaders and activists who were part of “Trial 22” in 1969. They were held in solitary confinement and subjected to brutal torture in a bit to force them to testify against their comrades. They refused to do so, which forced the ..read more

  Marvi Rebueno-Trudeau is the Deputy-Executive Director of the Pilipinas Shell Foundation. She initially studied business management and funded a firm which represented foreign companies at the Asian Development Bank. After some years she retired to Palawan, an island in the Philippines archipelago. Once there she was moved to come out of retirement in order to address various social issues in the community, namely malnutrition and high rates of malaria. She joined Pilipinas Shell Foundation, which funded a community-based, province wide malaria program. The success of this malaria progr ..read more