Financing climate action: Global pledges to local realities

The talk will draw on a recent co-authored book with Santosh Kumar and G. Venkatasubramanian and will outline the key findings: the sexual division of debt and the work of debt as pillars of contemporary financialized capitalism, and how these are both shaped by and constitutive of specific forms of womanhood and sexuality.

SOAS chose the theme, 'Social justice and development in a polarising world' in recognition of the enormous challenges facing the world right now, and because it reflected much of the research and teaching on global development undertaken in the host departments (Development Studies, and Economics) as well as across the institution as a whole.