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Ep. #15 Designing agency: Vijayendra Rao talks development, anthropology, and making social change

May 28, 2018November 10, 2018 / Ian Pollock / 7 Comments

Vijayendra Rao, the lead economist at the World Bank in the research department, talks to our own Ian Pollock about the role that anthropology and ethnography could play in helping poor or disempowered people engage with powerful institutions.

Ep. #5 Stunted thinking: Annie McCarthy talks slum children, NGOs, and stunting in Delhi

January 7, 2018November 10, 2018 / Jodie-Lee Trembath / 1 Comment

“...the child operates as a powerful figure in our society, where children can mobilize anything, from anxieties about same sex marriage to fears about children in detention, and all these things that we see in our own society today.”

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