Global Development Institute Blog

Being a migrant: embodied experiences and bodily strategies

Being a migrant: embodied experiences and bodily strategies

by Tanja Bastia, Erika Busse, Verónica Montes, and Andrea Souto Garcia At the 25th IMISCOE conference, the largest migration conference in Europe, recently held in Paris, we (the authors) took the opportunity to meet and discuss our respective research experiences,...
Participate in our upcoming communities of practice

Participate in our upcoming communities of practice

This year, GDI’s Natalie Cunningham (Senior Lecturer in Leadership for Development) will be running a series of communities of practice (CoPs) designed to support development practitioners (and those interested in pursuing a career in development) in building...
Affordable Housing, Financialization and Urban Statecraft

Affordable Housing, Financialization and Urban Statecraft

A lecture by Tom Gillespie at Cornell AAP explores the scale of the 21st-century urban housing challenge. Abstract The 21st-century urban housing challenge has prompted state actors in both the Global North and South to adopt increasingly interventionist approaches to...