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In this episode of IDS Between the Lines, IDS Director Melissa Leach interviews leading development policy analyst and IDS Emeritus Fellow Raphael Kaplinsky, author of the book Sustainable Futures: An Agenda for Action.

The book explores the determinants and character of the ongoing environmental, economic, social and political crises and seeks to identify a roadmap for building a more sustainable world.

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In this episode of IDS Between the Lines, BBC Journalist Sana Safi interviews Max Gallien, Research Fellow, at the Institute of Development Studies and Florian Weigand, co-director at the Centre for the Study of Armed Groups at ODI and research associate at LSE.

Max and Florian are editors of the recently published book: The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling. The book – which has just been made open access – offers a comprehensive survey of interdisciplinary research related to smuggling, reflecting on key themes, and charting current and future trends.

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In this episode of the IDS podcast Between the Lines, Ian Scoones and Andrea Cornwall, editors of the book Revolutionizing Development: Reflections on the work of Robert Chambers interview Robert Chambers about his work and legacy.

The book – which has just been made open access - with a new foreword from IDS Director Melissa Leach – tells the story of development studies in practice over the last 50 years, with contributions from authors who have been intimately involved as collaborators, critics and colleagues of Robert Chambers.

In the interview, Ian and Andrea ask Robert amongst other questions; what have been your influences and what does development studies mean today.

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In this episode of Between the Lines, IDS Research Fellow John Gaventa interviews Ben Jackson and Harriet Lamb, authors of the book From Anger to Action: Inside the Global Movements for Social Justice, Peace, and a Sustainable Planet.

Drawing on candid insights from citizens, activists, and innovators, and their own experiences as leaders of internationally recognized advocacy organizations, the authors give an insider account of the battle for change and how it can be won – as well as trenchant criticism of where traditional civil society has lost its way and needs renewal.

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In this episode of the IDS podcast Between the Lines, IDS Research Fellow Tony Roberts interviews Eve Hayes de Kalaf, author of the book Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic: From Citizen to Foreigner.

The author discusses amongst other things; What motivated them to write the book? And what stories of lived experiences were important in developing this book?

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About the author

Eve Hayes de Kalaf is a research associate based at the School of Histories, Languages and Cultures, University of Liverpool and a fellow of the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London.

About the interviewer

Dr. Tony Roberts is a Research Fellow in the Digital and Technology cluster at the Institute of Development Studies. He has been working at the intersection of digital technologies, international development and social justice since 1988 as a volunteer, lecturer, practitioner, trustee and researcher.

About the book

Over the next ten years, states are carrying out large-scale registrations in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs aim to provide more than one billion people around the world with evidentiary proof of their legal and, increasingly, digital existence by 2030.

This book identifies a connection between the role of international actors, such as the World Bank and the United Nations, in promulgating the universal provision of legal identity and links these with arbitrary measures to restrict access to citizenship paperwork from migrant-descended populations.

The book provides the definitive analysis of the events leading up to the controversial 2013 Constitutional Tribunal ruling that rendered the Dominican plaintiff Juliana Deguis Pierre stateless. Hayes de Kalaf illustrates how measures that purposely blocked people of Haitian ancestry from accessing their legal identity not only affected undocumented and stateless populations – persons living at the fringes of citizenship – but also had a major impact on documented people; Dominicans already in possession of a state-issued birth certificate, national identity card and/or passport.

The book illustrates the complex and contradictory ways in which ID systems are experienced, thus challenging the assumption within current development policy that the provision of ID to everyone, everywhere will lead to the inclusion of all citizens.

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In this episode of Between the Lines, IDS Research Fellow Lyla Mehta interviews Luisa Cortesi and K. J. Joy, editors of the book Split Waters: The Idea of Water Conflicts.

The authors discuss amongst other things; What motivated them to write the book? And what stories of lived experiences were important in developing this book?

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In this episode of Between the Lines, IDS Research Fellow Lyla Mehta interviews Luisa Cortesi and K. J. Joy, editors of the book Split Waters: The Idea of Water Conflicts. The book looks at the existence of the idea of water conflict, and asks what it is and what it produces in how it is used to pursue particular interests and to legitimise specific historical, technological and environmental relations.

The authors discuss amongst other things; What motivated them to write the book? And What stories of lived experiences were important in developing this book?

About Between the Lines

Discussing the latest ideas shaping development.

This podcast series explores books with ideas for positive social and environmental change. Each month we feature a book and an interview with its author. The discussions give an insight on the themes covered in the book, exploring the challenges and discoveries, and why the issues matter for progressive and sustainable development globally.

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In this episode of Between the Lines, Researcher and Tax expert Jalia Kangave interviews Mick Moore, IDS Research Fellow and Senior Fellow of the International Centre for Tax and Development and Wilson Prichard Associate Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs, Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, and the CEO of the International Centre for Tax and Development.

Mick and Wilson along with Odd-Helge Fjeldstad are authors of the book: Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform and Development which offers a fascinating insight into the key issues facing policy makers, tax collectors, civil society activists and donors working to increase revenues to finance sustainable development in Africa.

The authors discuss amongst other things; What motivated them to write the book? And what stories of lived experiences were important in developing this book?

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In this episode of Between the Lines, IDS Fellow, John Gaventa interviews Fiona Anciano and Joanna Wheeler who edited the book: Political Values and Narratives of Resistance: Social Justice and the Fractured Promises of Post-colonial States.

The book brings together multidisciplinary perspectives to explore how political values and acts of resistance impact the delivery of social justice in post-colonial states such as South Africa and Zimbabwe. Examining important themes in political science, anthropology, sociology and urban geography, this book will appeal to scholars and students interested in political values, justice, social movements and resistance.

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