/isid/taxonomy/term/315/all en /isid/article/spotlight/2019-mcdonald-currie-lecture-lucy-quist <p>On Tuesday February 12, 2019, ISID hosted Lucy Quist for the 2019 McDonald-Currie Lectures. Quist’s lecture was entitled, “Leading Change from a Global Perspective.” The lecture addressed four key areas: global structures and injustices, the need for diversity in perspectives, courage to lead, and change that is needed globally. Ms. Quist highlighted inequities in global pricing structures as an example of injustices. She also spoke about structural biases in the media’s representations of issues, which gloss over the complexity and interlinked nature of systemic problems.</p> Wed, 15 May 2019 17:18:32 +0000 Nii Addy 1369 at /isid /isid/article/spotlight-development-research <p>�㽶��Ƶ has established a partnership with UN Environment—the primary United Nations agency coordinating environmental activities and assisting developing countries with environmental policies and practices. Involving McGill’s faculties of Science, Arts and Law and housed within the Institute for the Study of International Development, the Partnership focuses on tracking and assessing environment-related risks to societies and states.</p> Mon, 13 May 2019 14:58:04 +0000 Latitude 1361 at /isid /isid/article/spotlight-development-practice <p>ISID’s Professor of Practice in Global Governance, Michael Brown, has deep experience with the United Nations (UN), and played a central role in establishing the McGill-UNEP Partnership. Recently, he also played a critical role in developing the new UN Framework for Action on Land and Conflict. The Framework will be captured in an upcoming UN Secretary General Guidance Note that will guide UN officials on the conduct of their work, while having significant potential normative impact.</p> Mon, 13 May 2019 15:02:48 +0000 Latitude 1362 at /isid /isid/article/spotlight/spotlight-development-research-kazue-takamura <p>Kazue Takamura’s research is centered on the precarious mobility of migrants from developing countries, with a particular focus on Asia. Her research engages especially with questions of gender and migration, including the reproductive vulnerability of female migrants and the rights of domestic workers, human rights of asylum-seekers, and state policy regarding migrant mobility. Much of Professor Takamura’s research has focused on Filipina migrant women, as well as asylum-seekers in Japan.</p> Thu, 16 May 2019 14:38:59 +0000 Latitude 1370 at /isid /isid/article/spotlight/spotlight-development-research-yann-le-polain-de-waroux <p>Yann le Polain joined ISID in August 2017. His research focuses on understanding how local land use and livelihood decisions influence and are influenced by dynamics at other scales, and what this means for development and sustainability in rural areas of the Global South. His early work was in Southern Morocco, where he studied the livelihood and environmental changes associated with globalization in rural areas.</p> Thu, 16 May 2019 16:09:36 +0000 Latitude 1375 at /isid /isid/article/spotlight/spotlight-development-research-megan-bradley <p>Since joining ISID and the Department of Political Science in 2014, Megan Bradley has garnered multiple research grants to deepen her investigations into the challenges of forced migration in contemporary world politics. Her Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant on the politics of international organizations (IOs) in the humanitarian sphere focuses in particular on the causes and implications of the rapid growth of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).</p> Thu, 16 May 2019 16:18:33 +0000 Latitude 1376 at /isid /isid/article/spotlight/spotlight-development-practice-kim-samuel <p>Working with the students has been the highlight of Kim Samuel’s time at ISID. From September to December 2016, she delivered an INTD 497 Seminar on Lessons of Community and Compassion: Overcoming Social Isolation and Building Social Connectedness Through Policy and Program Development.</p> Tue, 21 May 2019 18:05:25 +0000 Latitude 1385 at /isid /isid/article/spotlight/spotlight-development-practice-venni-krishna <p>As the Visiting Chair of the India Council for Cultural Relations at ISID in Fall 2016, Dr. Krishna’s research focused on the social history of modern science, particularly the way it acquired social legitimacy clearly depicts the science and society relationships emerging from the time of Galileo. From the time Francis Bacon characterized ‘knowledge as power’, the social institution of science evolved as one of the most highly influential, privileged and sought-after institutions in the world.</p> Tue, 21 May 2019 18:08:04 +0000 Latitude 1386 at /isid /isid/article/spotlight/spotlight-development-research-diana-allan <p>Professor Allan’s work as an anthropologist, ethnographic filmmaker, and critical media activist in the Palestinian refugee community in Lebanon is intrinsically interdisciplinary. The main thrust of her research has been to examine the collapse of Palestinian nationalist politics in exile. Her recent ethnography, <a href="http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=20689"><i>Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile</i></a> (Stanford UP, 2014), won the 2014 Palestine Book Award, and the Middle East Studies Book Award at the 2015 American Anthropological Association meeting.</p> Thu, 16 May 2019 17:30:35 +0000 Latitude 1381 at /isid /isid/article/spotlight/spotlight-development-research-francesco-amodio <p>Francesco Amodio joined �㽶��Ƶ in 2015 as Assistant Professor, jointly appointed by the Department of Economics and ISID. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. He is a development economist specialized in quantitative methods. His research program is organized around two main pillars. One of them is the study of the constraints faced by firms and public organizations in developing countries. His past research has mainly focused on the operations of privately owned firms in Latin America and the Middle East.</p> Tue, 21 May 2019 17:45:21 +0000 Latitude 1382 at /isid