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Instant Coffee Season 4: Change
This latest season of Instant Coffee asks a question: what does it take to effect meaningful change in our communities? This is not an easy question to answer by any means, so we have collaborated with our colleagues at the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity based at the LSE International Inequalities Institute to help find some answers.
Episode 1: Building Transnational Solidarity Networks of Resistance
In this first episode of season 4, Hamidreza Vasheghanifarahani speaks with Azadeh Sobout and Rindala about how transnational solidarity networks can strengthen efforts towards social change.
While both Azadeh and Rindala focus their discussion on Syria and the 2011 Revolution, the conversation explores broader approaches and challenges to political organising and revolutionary politics that can be applied globally.
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Conversations on Positionality with Anne Kirstine Rønn
How does 'who we are' as researchers shape our work? In this podcast series, MEC Visiting Fellow, Anne Kirstine Rønn invites a set of colleagues to discuss the concept of researcher positionality.
Episode 8: Nicola Pratt on Ethics and the Responsibility to Counter Repression
In this last episode of the series, Anne Kirstine speaks to Nicola Pratt about her views on the role of researchers in society. Nicola reflects on the ethical responsibilities of researchers to fight repression and the importance of engaging in political debates about their subject matter. She also reflects on the importance of relations in a time where extractivism has become a widespread research method.
Nicola is Professor of International Politics of the Middle East at the University of Warwick. Her publications have explored women's activism, democratisation, human rights and conflict in a number of Middle Eastern countries.