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Area studies, global inequality and economic development

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Legacies of the Past or Historical Transitions

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  • Colonial Natures
  • Entangled Futures Network
  • Global governance: critical understanding of crises and displacement
  • Exploring and Defining the Possibilities of a Global History of the pre-modern Peasantry 
  • Indian Democracy and the New Global Order
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Area studies, global inequality and economic development

A placard at a climate protest reading 'One World', demanding social and economic justice alongside environmental justice.

Colonial Natures

Examining the links between historic colonialism and contemporary climate change, and ways to fight the impacts of both.

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