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An increasing number of countries around the world have been trialling a ‘basic income’ for their citizens, and the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for governments to reevalutate and strengthen social safety nets. The UN has called for a Temporary Basic Income, to provide a lifeline for the world’s poorest. Could something like a ‘Universal Basic Income’ help in Covid-19 recovery, and in the longer-term, help to address some of societies biggest challenges?

In this episode of Between the Lines, Phil Mader speaks with Guy Standing, a leading expert on the basic income concept, about his book, Battling Eight Giants: Basic Income Now.

• Basic Income Earth Network
• Other books by Guy Standing
• Massive Attack collaboration with Guy Standing

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In this episode of Between the Lines, IDS Head of Knowledge, Impact and Policy, Kelly Shephard, talks to author and broadcaster, Helen Lewis about her book, Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights.

In looking at the history of feminism and stories of rebel women, details are too often whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search for feel-good, inspirational heroines. In this book, Helen reclaims the history of feminism as a history of difficult women.

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Uprootedness, exile and forced displacement, be it due to conflict, natural disasters or even so-called 'development', affects the lives of millions of people across the globe. The numbers of people affected are increasing, as shocks and crises force people to flee their homes and find safe places to live.

In this episode of Between the Lines IDS researcher, Jaideep Gupte speaks with Lyla Mehta from IDS and Katarzyna Grabska from PRIO, Oslo and Institute of Ethnology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, about their co-edited book ‘Forced Displacement: Why Rights Matter’ - they reflect on their research and experiences from 2005 in Egypt and India, and how realising rights and amplifying voices of displaced people, matters even more today.

Book: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312067397_Forced_displacement_Why_rights_matter

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One of the most-discussed digital financial inclusion projects, M-Pesa facilitates the transfer of money and access to formal financial services via the mobile phone infrastructure and has grown at a phenomenal rate since its launch in 2007.

In this episode of Between the Lines. Serena Natile discusses her book, The Exclusionary Politics of Digital Financial Inclusion, which critiques mobile money as part of a historical succession of finance solutions and puts forward a strategy for gender equality, arguing for a politics of redistribution to guide future digital financial inclusion projects.

Interviewing Serena is IDS Digital and Technology researcher. Tony Roberts  

Serena Natile is a Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies at Brunel Law School, Brunel University London     

Book: https://www.routledge.com/The-Exclusionary-Politics-of-Digital-Financial-Inclusion-Mobile-Money/Natile/p/book/9780367179588 

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At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has raised issues of welfare regimes higher up the global agenda, author Ferdinand Eibl discusses his book, Social Dictatorships: The Political Economy of the Welfare State in the Middle East and North Africa. Using mixed methods of study, the book presents an explanation as to why social spending in authoritarian regimes differ and presents case studies of the political origins of the Tunisian and Egyptian welfare state.

Interviewing Ferdinand is IDS Research Fellow, Max Gallien.

Ferdinand is Lecturer in Political Economy and programme director of the MA Politics and Economics of the Middle East at King’s College London.

Book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/social-dictatorships-9780198834274?q=eibl&lang=en&cc=gb

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The global pandemic Covid-19 is impacting people in many and varied ways. The effects on all our lives are immense and diverse, from rural and urban communities, young and old, from different geographic and economic groups. We are each living with different realities of a global crisis.

IDS' Melissa Leach, Hayley MacGregor,Annie Wilkinson and Ian Scoones discuss how we can learn from past epidemics and outbreaks and the need to understand social dynamics in order to respond to Covid-19.

Links:

• Book – ‘Avian Influenza: Science, Policy and Politics’, Ian Scoones
• Book – ‘Epidemics: Science, Governance and Social Justice’, Melissa Leach, Sarah Dry and Hayley MacGregor
• Blog - Covid-19 - a social phenomenon requiring diverse expertise
• Blog - Science, uncertainty and the Covid-19 response
• Pandemic Preparedness Programme

Twitter: @IDS_UK #IDSbetweenthelines

Discount code IDS50 offering 50% discount on the three titles listed below:

• Avian Influenza | Paperback | £33.99 £16.99
• Epidemics: Science, Governance and Social Justice | Paperback| £39.99 £19.99
• One Health: Science, politics and zoonotic disease in Africa | Paperback| £35.99 £17.99

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Water is crucial to sustain life, food, ecosystems, human health and wellbeing. Still, millions of poor and marginalised women and men around the world face challenges in accessing water due to a range of ecological, socio-political, institutional and economic reasons.

The focus of this month’s episode of Between the Lines is a new book called ‘Water for Food Security, Nutrition and Social Justice’ . IDS researcher, Lidia Cabral interviews two of its authors IDS Fellow, Lyla Mehta and Claudia Ringler, who is Deputy Director of Environment and Production Technology Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). They argue for the need to improve policy coherence across water, land and food and make the case for strengthening the relationship between the human rights to water and food, especially for marginalized women and men.

Book: https://www.ids.ac.uk/publications/water-for-food-security-nutrition-and-social-justice/

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Domestic violence remains widespread in many countries. Approximately 1/3 of women globally experience some form of violence in their lifetime.

In this month’s episode of Between the Lines, IDS researcher, Sohela Nazneen discusses a book that she has co edited entitled, ‘Negotiating Gender Equity in the Global South: The Politics of Domestic Violence Policy.'

The book investigates the conditions under which countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia have adopted legislation against domestic violence. And, as Sohela explains, how broader domains of power need to be addressed if we are to have gender-inclusive policy outcomes.

Interviewing Sohela is economist and gender specialist, Professor Diane Elson.

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Book: https://www.ids.ac.uk/publications/negotiating-gender-equity-in-the-global-south/

Sohela Nazneen: https://www.ids.ac.uk/people/sohela-nazneen/

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In recent years, climate change and the environment has shot up the agenda in political and public discourse, and a new type of politics has taken shape, with many people calling for urgent, radical change.

In this month’s Between the Lines, IDS Director Melissa Leach, Professor Ian Scoones and Professor Peter Newell discuss their co-edited book, The Politics of Green Transformations. Drawing on international examples, they reflect on past transformations as examples of positive change and examine the factors that have contributed to recent heightened awareness and emergency narratives. They discuss the tensions between the need for urgent green transformations and issues of inequality, social justice and rights, and call on an evidence-based politics of hope, to drive humanity towards a sustainable, just future.

Interviewing them is Andrew Simms, author, political economist, activist and the coordinator of the Rapid Transition Alliance.

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Melissa Leach: https://www.ids.ac.uk/people/melissa-leach/

Peter Newell: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/104921

Ian Scoones: https://www.ids.ac.uk/people/ian-scoones/

Andrew Simms: http://www.newweather.org/about-us/andrew-simms/

Rapid Transitions Alliance: https://www.rapidtransition.org/

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In this month’s episode of Between the Lines we discuss a new book that helps us to better understand how power works.

Power, Empowerment and Social Change uncovers how power operates around the world, and how it can be transformed through collective action and social leadership.

Discussing this collaborative work with IDS Research Officer, Katy Oswald are co-editors Rosemary McGee and Jethro Pettit.

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