Category: Key Thinker

  • Heloise Weber on Global Development Inequalities & Injustices

    Heloise Weber on Global Development Inequalities & Injustices

    In this edition of our Meet the Editor’s series, we speak with TWQ Academic Editor Heloise Weber.  She currently works in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland. Her research is animated by an interest in the historical and contemporary politics of inequalities in global development. Heloise says her…

  • Towards a Wellbeing Economy with Feminist Economist Naila Kabeer

    Towards a Wellbeing Economy with Feminist Economist Naila Kabeer

    Image sourced from Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS) website “We are finally hearing people questioning the growth paradigm that has dominated our lives, our politics, our vision of the future. If growth is not contributing to the sum total of our wellbeing, to our sense of fairness, to our safety in the streets,…

  • “A is for Africa”: Towards the Decolonisation of Knowledge Production

    “A is for Africa”: Towards the Decolonisation of Knowledge Production

    Sylvia Tamale, an accomplished Ugandan academic and human rights activist, presented “A is for Africa”: Towards the Decolonisation of Knowledge Production at the third annual Devaki Jain lecture series which took place at St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford, UK, on the 13th of October 2022. Below is the transcript of Tamale’s insightful lecture (first published in ‘The…