✨ Fola Aina, @naomihossain.bsky.social and Adam Hanieh are some of the @soasdevelopment.bsky.social researchers contributing expert analysis to emerging issues in Nigeria, Bangladesh and Iran.

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Will there be fuel riots? Possible political fallout from Trump's Iranian misadventure

Somr thoughts about the political moment, based on a brief review of the main waves of energy and food protests this century open.substack.com/pub/naomihos...

(PDF) Political Dominance, Performance Legitimacy, and the COVID-19 Response in Bangladesh PDF | Protecting Workers? Crisis, COVID 19 and South Asia examines how the South Asian region has confronted the challenges of safeguarding labour... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

New book chapter: Political Dominance, Performance Legitimacy, and the COVID-19 Response in Bangladesh
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

🎙️ New episode! @carlosoya.bsky.social joins @naomihossain.bsky.social to to unpack China’s role in Africa’s industrial future, based on his new book 'China for Africa’s Industrialization?'

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Bangladesh’s Political Reset YouTube video by Carnegie Endowment

I spoke with Milan Vaishnav on the Grand Tamasha podcast about the deja vu that is Bangladeshi politics

www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0wT...

📌Life after SOAS: Alumni in Progressive Politics and Policy-Making
See how SOAS alumni are shaping politics and public policy!

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That’s horrific

Contemporary South Asia Podcast | Podcast on RSS.com The Contemporary South Asia podcast extends the mission of the journal by providing a forum for critical engagement with the social, political, economic, and cultural transformations shaping the regio...

Check out the Contemporary South Asia podcast... based on recent articles in the journal, this accessible format brings the authors' research to the wider public. Available here and on all major streaming services: rss.com/podcasts/con...

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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🌍This Thursday at 5pm!
Are Global Value Chains really benefiting us?
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But which are the two major parties now?

More of this kind of MP please

I spoke with @doughenwood.bsky.social about the Bangladesh elections and a bit about the tragic history of the two big political families.

Thank you!

(Almost) Everyone’s a Winner: Bangladesh Elections 2026 The winners and losers, and those in between, in the aftermath of the February 12 polls

My thoughts on the Bangladesh election counterpointbd.com/almost-every...

Thank you Peter, that's great to know!

Join us for a book launch with Guy Standing, as he explores how education has been reshaped by market logics and what it would take to revive it for the common good

🗓17 Feb
🕕6pm
📍SOAS BGLT
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Dhaka pre-election diary (pt 1, possibly, of 2) January 6-19 2026

I spent the month in pre-election Dhaka, and heard a lot of conspiracy theories

Is there any point posting about the Bangladesh elections on this site?

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Theorising the politics of famine: Bangladesh in 1974 1974 saw the first—and last—famine in independent Bangladesh. The disaster killed an estimated two per cent of the population and caused a crisis of legitimacy for the leadership of a nation that had...

Many hours (years), desk rejects (World Development does not publish articles about famine?) and some brilliant (ie crushingly cruel) reviewers later, this is finally published. My effort towards theorizing the politics of famine. Many thanks, Disasters!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The SOAS Global Development Seminar Series is back!
Join us for a great lineup of speakers and talks designed to spark conversations on GD.

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Dear god

Ali Riaz’s Big Bet Is tinkering with the formal rules of the game the triumph of hope over experience (this time politics will be different)? Or a more technocratic faith in the power of institutional architecture to pu...

Me, on Ali Riaz's Big Bet
counterpointbd.com/Ali-Riaz%E2%...

Naomi Hossain (@naomihossain) My Conclusions to the beautiful tragic new book The July Resolve (ed Rezwan Rahman for It’s Humanity Foundation)

On the politics of memory in Bangladesh
substack.com/@naomihossai...

How Gen Z Organises Decentralised Protests Without Leaders YouTube video by Times Originals

What explains the global wave of so-called Gen Z protests? Some answers here from Gen X (and a few Boomers)
youtu.be/QMakQ7lj6-0?...

Join us for Jawied Nawabi on how state power and early battles with landed elites shape long-term development. Chaired by @carlosoya.bsky.social

📅27 Jan, 18:00 GMT
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Check out Giuseppina Siciliano’s latest analysis exploring the social and environmental ramifications of large and megadams for hydropower.

Read the full analysis here ➡️ fwr.org/the-great-hy...
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Gosh, what a sentence