Social Sciences

Challenging the Development Paradigm For decades, international development efforts have been predominantly conceptualized and led by institutions based in the Global North. While these initiatives are often framed as benevolent endeavors aimed at alleviating poverty and improving living conditions in...

Far-right parties in the Global North have expanded their relevancy over the last 20 years, most recently achieving success in the United States following the reelection of Donald Trump. The rise of these movements has led scholars to increasingly research...

Africa contains the widest between-country variations in income inequality globally, with the top 10% of the region controlling almost 56% of total income. The roots of many issues underlying this inequality go back to the colonial era. Yet, international development...

The Syrian Civil War: Accountability, Ethics, and Memory The Syrian civil war, often referred to as the first "social media war," has fundamentally altered the way conflicts are documented, understood, and remembered. New media platforms have opened an unprecedented space...

“We make them tiny to be able to grab them because it is easier to have those things small so that in the future they might become a reality, like an amulet,” explained Daniel Gutiérrez, journalist at El Diario, a...

Riace is a small Italian town located on the Calabrian coast along the Ionian Sea. Historically, its fame is linked to the discovery of two magnificent Greek bronze statues from the 5th century BCE, found on the seabed off its...

Globalization has greatly changed modern societies, altering how we view space and time. This increasing interconnectedness has expanded social interactions and created a shared understanding of time and space, which in turn has shaped the way we study history, a...

Sovereign credit ratings are meant to be independent measures of a country’s ability to pay its debts. Such ratings are important because they determine the interest rates a country faces in the global financial market and, therefore, its borrowing costs....

I denne og i en tidligere artikel gengives de fire oplæg fra DDRNs arrangement under Forskningens Døgn 2024Gæld og fattigdom på kredit i Latinamerika v/Marie KollingJeg er antropolog og seniorforsker på Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier. Det handler om gæld...

Despite being one of the countries with the lowest carbon footprint per capita (0.21 vs 6.6 in DK),  Mozambique is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. Cyclones and floods have intensified in the past decades, devastating infrastructures,...