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China Daily, May 10, 2021. Cheng Enfu is a principal professor at the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, director of the Research Center for Economic and Social Development at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and president of the World Association for Political Economy. He can be reached at 65344718[at]vip.163.com. Lu Baolin is a professor at the School of Economics, Qufu Normal University. Neoimperialism is the specific contemporary phase of historical development that features the economic globalization and financialization of monopoly capitalism. The characteristi...

Large-scale land transactions in which nations sell huge, publicly owned parcels to foreign and domestic corporations negatively affect local women more than men, a new study by Oregon State University shows.

How Gujarat is building ‘world’s largest’ solar power park, close to its border with Pakistan Simrin Sirur Approximately 30 kilometres from the last point accessible to civilians in the Rann of Kutch, an area roughly the size of Singapore — 72,600 hectares or 726 square kilometres — has been set aside for what is being touted as the world’s largest hybrid solar-wind power park. © Provided by The Print In this remote desert area, where no human resides, the sun beats down relentlessly and temperatures soar to 35 degrees Celsius during the day. Gusts of wind flow u...

Alexander Dunlap is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo. His work has critically examined police-military transformations, market-based conservation, wind energy development and extractive projects more generally in Latin America and Europe. He has published two books: Renewing Destruction: Wind Energy Development, Conflict and Resistance in an American Context (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) and, the co-authored, The Violent Technologies of Extraction (Palgrave, 2020). This also includes articles in Anarchist Studies, Geopolitics,...

Published on 2 February 2021 IDS has renewed its institutional partnership agreement with the International Institute of Social Studies in a move that highlights our shared values and ongoing commitment to ensuring the representation of social sciences in responses to global shocks. Reaffirming a long-standing partnership As academics and knowledge professionals committed to a more equal and sustainable world, staff at IDS and the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) share the goal of collaborating across sciences, sectors and communities to do r...