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Fola Aina’s latest chapter explores how weak states and arms proliferation drive instability in West Africa. #Peace #Security #Conflict

Read more: shorturl.at/ZW3uV

@soasuni.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social @afrique.lemonde.fr
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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New article in World Development Perspectives by @carlosoya.bsky.social, Fekadu Nigussie Deresse and Christian Samen Otchia explores the paradox of job switching in a wage cartel.

Read here: shorturl.at/woaYi
@soasuni.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Excellent new article in Third World Quarterly by Navtej Purewal & Althea-Maria Rivas on gendered racial capitalism. They critique the “smart economics” approach to gender equity & its colonial legacies.

Read here: shorturl.at/ptD9k
@naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Join us next Monday for Stefania Barca’s talk exploring how workers can drive ecological change, and why climate justice is social justice.

📅 10 Nov, 5pm
📍 SOASVDLT & Zoom

Register: shorturl.at/WNDbn

@naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @soaseconomics.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Join us this Thursday for @terminalias.bsky.social's book launch!

Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure

📅30 Oct, 5pm, SWLT

Register here➡️: shorturl.at/OGUoh
@soasuni.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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📌 Join us at @soasuni.bsky.social for a discussion with @devikadutt.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social on:

"Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction"

Livestream➡️: 🔗www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/decolonizing-economics-introduction
@eadi.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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✨Coca Talks: Futuro Coca in London
Join us for a dialogue on the alternative uses of coca leaves with activists, scholars & experts.

📅 17 Oct 2025, 18:00–20:30
📍KLT, SOAS

➡️ Register: shorturl.at/3AWXF
@carlosoya.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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📌What does it mean to ‘return’?

Join the SOAS Centre for Migration & Diaspora Studies for a two-day workshop on the concept and practices of return.

📅 17 Oct, 5:30pm, DLT, SOAS
📅 18 Oct, 1pm, SOAS Bar

🔗 Details & registration: shorturl.at/ScRNW
@naomihossain.bsky.social @terminalias.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Unexploded bombs harm the environment, and climate change makes it worse. Great new piece by @sndeall.bsky.social & Christina Greene in @uk.theconversation.com

Read here➡️shorturl.at/CUhbr
@naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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"Five lessons the UK can learn from Italy’s asylum accommodation crisis"@terminalias.bsky.social
draws on his extensive research to explain why.

Read the full blog➡️: shorturl.at/C9JbG
@naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @laurahammond.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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📸 Highlights from our “Violence, Conflict and Changing Global Orders” conference at @soasuni.bsky.social !

Huge thanks to the brilliant mix of students, scholars & practitioners who made it such a rich, cross-generational dialogue. Your insights brought the event to life!

Enjoy these snapshots!
June 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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🔔Don’t miss out! Join us for a timely and important discussion at a critical moment for the field of #Violence, #Conflict & #Development. 11 June 🕒2pm – 5pm at BGLT, SOAS
Register now➡️: shorturl.at/RKX3E
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May 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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💧Latest SOAS Global Development Working Paper

Mollinga & Deekshit trace how water in Gujarat’s Sardar Sarovar Project became a tool of state power, far beyond farming and hydropower.

🔗 Read full paper ➡️: shorturl.at/SqKnO
@naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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🎉 Congrats to @sndeall.bsky.social & Eka Ikpe on their award-winning piece on anti-vehicle mine clearance and long-term #peacebuilding & infrastructure in Angola.

🔗Read it here: shorturl.at/xmZpF

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May 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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🎙️New Podcast on Social Reproduction!

What counts as “work,” and what gets overlooked?

@sarastevano.bsky.social joins @surbhikesar.bsky.social to discuss the unpaid & paid labour that sustains life.

🎧Listen here: shorturl.at/lFyJJ
@devcomms.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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📌Join Alessandra Mezzadri, Shirin Rai & @sarastevano.bsky.social for a discussion on pluralising feminist readings of the world economy and social reproduction

📅 20 March 5.15pm
📍SOAS SALT & Zoom

Register➡️shorturl.at/djuB5
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@carlosoya.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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📌Join Alessandra Mezzadri, Shirin Rai & @sarastevano.bsky.social for a discussion on pluralising feminist readings of the world economy and social reproduction

📅 March 6, 5pm
📍SOAS SALT & Zoom

Registration ➡️shorturl.at/djuB5
@surbhikesar.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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🌟@sndeall.bsky.social & team completed a 3-day workshop in Bangkok, kickstarting a community to explore research gaps at the intersection of conflict, climate, & Explosive Remnants of War.

Thanks to Norwegian People's Aid, Thailand office & @soasuni.bsky.social for their support
@eadi.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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@sndeall.bsky.social,SOAS, is co-hosting a Research Workshop with NPA Thailand (24-26 Feb) to co-design solutions for land degradation and communities impacted by Explosive Remnants of War. Thanks to @ukri.org for supporting this work.
@soasuni.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social
February 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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📌 Join us for the next SOAS DLD Conversation, 10 March at 5.30pm.

Is growing inequality a problem for international development, what is driving it and what can be done about it?

Info & Registration ➡️: shorturl.at/VqzHn

@soas-dld.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social
@oxfaminternational.bsky.social
February 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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📢 @elifriedman.bsky.social will explore how China’s rise has impacted employment, class structures, and political effects in both regions. Join the talk, chaired by Tim Pringle.

📍 SOAS SALT & Zoom
📅 20 Feb, 5pm GMT

Register here ➡️: shorturl.at/dbIzR
@soasuni.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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🎬 The much-anticipated film screening is TOMORROW at 5.15pm, SOAS KLT!

More information ➡️: shorturl.at/NhThq

@carlosoya.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @lindacalab.bsky.social @yunnanchen.bsky.social @sarastevano.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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📢 Join us for a talk by Hsiao-Wei Lee, WFP Country Director in Afghanistan, chaired by Naomi Hossain @naomihossain.bsky.social!

📍SOAS SWLT & Zoom
📅Jan 29 @ 5pm

Register➡️: shorturl.at/3ei1T
@soasuni.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @sarastevano.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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📢 Hassan Ould Moctar presents "After Border Externalization", exploring the EU's border & migration control in the GS, with a focus on Mauritania.

Join the discussion, chaired by @terminalias.bsky.social

📍SOAS SALT & Zoom
📅 6 Feb at 5pm

Register ➡️: shorturl.at/k6YO2 @naomihossain.bsky.social
January 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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🎙️ New podcast episode unravels informal economy with Surbhi Kesar, in a thought-provoking conversation with Sara Stevano, focusing on the Indian economy

Tune in for key insights!
Listen here 🔊 www.soas.ac.uk/research/res...

@naomihossain.bsky.social @laurahammond.bsky.social
#IndianEconomy
January 14, 2025 at 10:24 AM