Driven by the flexibility of global capital, India’s largest privately-owned Special Economic Zone (SEZ) has constantly changed shape, name, and purpose. It has grown from 3000 acres to over 32,000 hectares since India started liberalising its economy in the early 1990s. What was once a salt manufacturing facility by the Arabian Sea is now set to be a vast wind and solar farm, and copper refinery that services emerging green technology. Capital, and a business-friendly state have shaped the land on which this mega infrastructure zone stands.

Reducing the gender gap in poverty remains a priority for South African policymakers. Using the 2018 General Households Survey (GHS), this paper examines gendered multidimensional poverty in post-apartheid South Africa. The analyses draw on Alkire-Foster multidimensional poverty methodology to present multidimensional poverty measures for men and women. The dimensions and indicators used in this paper are slightly adapted to reflect the socioeconomic realities and circumstances that are unique to South African households and individuals.

The emergence of novel infectious diseases has increased significantly in recent decades, and this is a consequence of climate change and the eco-modernist paradigm of development worldwide. Agrarian transformations are the key nexus of this process. In this lecture, I discuss the origins of COVID-19 and other novel coronavirus diseases (SARS and MERS), focusing on the connections between climate change and the transformation of development paradigms in China in recent decades.

The Oxford Syria Society is pleased to invite you to a discussion with Syrian women's rights civil society leaders to discuss the nature and challenges of their work in time of revolution and war. In a discussion with Maria Alabdeh and Ameenah Sawwan, moderated by Zeina Kanawati, we will hear about women's rights organizing, challenges, and lessons learned. We will also learn about the disproportionate impact of war on women, and about a feminist perspective on justice and representation.

On the occasion of the publication of Venizelos: The Making of a Greek Statesman 1864-1914 (Hurst & Co 2021), and the re-issue of Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor 1919 - 1922 (Hurst & Co new edition 2022).

Seminar series: Rupture and Reconciliation in Contexts of Displacement

Convened by Cory Rodgers (Oxford University) and Elias Lopez (Comillas Pontifical University).

Campion Hall and the Refugee Studies Centre present a seven-part seminar series on reconciliation in the contexts of displacement

Artificial intelligence is frequently cited as a threat. As the Singularity. As killer robots. As the mass production engines of misinformation and social division. But what if there is another implacable threat to democracy dependent on none of these; one we are paying little attention to, and as a result one far more threatening to democracy as we understand it today?