4.8 Working With Bias

04/14/21 • 45 min

Mahrukh 'Maya' Hasan is as a designer, researcher and strategic advisor who helps social impact organizations build joyful, equitable and innovative teams. She's the Founder and Director of Azura Labs, a social design and research studio that builds the capacity of international NGOs and UN agencies serving communities in Sub Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia. Last March, Maya also founded the Fearless Project, a diversity, equity and inclusion firm, which aims to champion trust, belonging and joy in the social impact sector.
We speak about:

entry barriers in the sector
research ethics and design justice
moving beyond the binary of quantitative and qualitative data
diversity, equity and inclusion work
the culture of fear amongst leaders
emotional agility
learning from other sectors - and much more!

She joins us from Chiang Mai, Thailand.

entry barriers in the sector
research ethics and design justice
moving beyond the binary of quantitative and qualitative data
diversity, equity and inclusion work
the culture of fear amongst leaders
emotional agility
learning from other sectors - and much more!

She joins us from Chiang Mai, Thailand.

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4.7 In the Name of Development

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. She joins us from London, UK.
We speak about:

applying an anthropological lens to the development sector
fashions, fads and buzzwords in development work
interrogating participatory methods
analyzing power dynamics
decolonizing international development studies
social movements being the biggest catalysts for change
care, leisure and compassion as part of a wholistic approach to development - and much more!

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4.9 Degrowth

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 is the author of the books 'Limits' and 'The Case for Degrowth'.

We speak about:

his intellectual journey and working across disciplines
the history of the hegemony of growth
degrowth as one critique of capitalist economies
3 layers of articulating degrowth
the climate crisis
degrowth in high income countries vs. low income countries
collective action and international solidarities
engaging with a pluriverse of alternatives to capitalist growth - and much more!

He joins us from Barcelona, Spain.