Thomas Brailey

I am a DPhil in Politics student at the DPIR.

I was previously a MPhil student in Comparative Government at the DPIR. My thesis focused on:

  1. conceptualising non-state security actors, and;
  2. identifying the conditions under which states choose to outsource their coercive capabilities

I serve as a research assistant with the Department of Sociology, where I study the relationship between public and private violence, and with the Institute for Replication (I4R).

Haitong Du

I am a DPhil student in International Relations at Balliol College. I hold an MPhil in International Relations from Pembroke College, Oxford, and a BA in International Relations with a minor in French (Phi Beta Kappa) from Tufts University.

Human Development Report 2022 - Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives. Shaping Our Future in a Transforming World

We live in a world of worry. The ongoing Covid-19 pan­demic, having driven reversals in human development in almost every country, continues to spin off variants unpre­dictably. War in Ukraine and elsewhere has created more human suffering. Record-breaking temperatures, fires, storms and floods sound the alarm of planetary systems increasingly out of whack. Together, they are fuelling a cost-of-living crisis felt around the world, painting a pic­ture of uncertain times and unsettled lives.Uncertainty is not new, but its dimensions are taking om­inous new forms today.

Day 2: Sustainable Pasts and Resilient Futures Workshop

Chair: Madeleine Dungy
*Session I*: 09:00-10:00
1. *Patricia Clavin*, "Winston Thinks there’s Pots of Money in it". Artificial Nitrates and the Management of Future Shocks.
2. *Michael Drolet*, The Logic of Industrialisation: Uniformalisation and the Imperative of Efficiency, or La Fin du Monde par la Science.

10:00-10:30 Coffee and Tea Break

*Session II*: 10:30-11:30
3. *Laurent Brassart*, State, Market and Sustainability: how Agronomic Innovations failed during the Napoleonic Empire. A tale about cattle, trees and dye plants.
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