Join us for a special book launch!

On 21 June 2010, from 17.30 to 18.30 we invite you to join us in the Atrium of the Institute of Social Studies, during which we will toast on a special occasion: the publication of the book ‘Participation for What: Social Change or Social Control?” (ISS, 2010).

Knowledges for Development, Development for Knowledges?

The Development Dialogue is a yearly initiative of PhD candidates at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University, in The Hague, The Netherlands. The objective is to exchange the results of recent and ongoing research by young scholars and PhD candidates in different fields of development studies.

Knowledge for Development

The goal of this seminar is to develop a shared vision of the Dutch Higher Education Institutes on a contribution to capacity building for knowledge and infrastructure in the South, in the context of a globalising world and the importance for society and its position in a globalising world of a continued Dutch cooperation with knowledge centres in developing countries.

Like a Bridge over Troubled Water

Dialogues of policy, practitioner and academic knowledges

The development sector needs to become more knowledge intensive and more collaborative to make a difference. More than ever, a well developed ability to reflect on the activities, policies and vision within the sector to improve, innovate and develop solutions, and to discover what works and what does not is needed.

The social question, who cares?

While the Shining India operation in the preceding years had increased the wellbeing of the already better-off, the United Progressive Alliance committed itself to ensure ‘the welfare and well-being of all workers, particularly those in the unorganised sector, who constitute more than 93% of our workforce'. A National Commission set up in September 2004 reviewed the status of the unorganised/ínformal sector in India. The Commission — chaired by Arjun Sengupta and with only two members (K.P. Kannan and R.S. Srivastava) and two part-time members (B.N. Yugandhar and T.S. Papola) — managed to produce altogether nine reports. Their panel completed its tenure in April 2009. What happened next? Nothing at all.

Study of Girls’ Madrasa Education in India

This study is an attempt to look at the nuances of identity formation among Indian Muslim women; notions of identity and selfhood are a result of the intersections of caste, class, religion and gender, among other factors. This paper tries to understand the process of construction of identity of Muslim women through a study of girls’ madrasas. It also attempts to examine binaries such as modernity and tradition, the secular and the religious and, nationhood and religious minority, which debates on the subject usually focus on.

Media and Religious Identity in Contemporary India

The hypothesis behind this paper is that we live in a “hyper-connected” world. Information , for most of us, lies , quite literally, at our fingertips. Television, the internet, newspapers and other media are within easy reach of most of the population regardless , it would seem, of class or even literacy or education. Under these circumstances it seemed a natural enough to question what role the media plays in perceptions of identity and pluralism.

Digital Natives Survey

Technology is all around us, do you also feel that the Internet or your cell phone has become an extension to your everyday lives? The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) and Hivos believe that the world we live in is changing rapidly and the rise of Internet technologies has a lot to do with it. As young users of technology adopt, adapt and use these new technologised tools to interact with their environment, new ways of change emerge. This survey attempts to capture some information which gives us an insight into who the people are that use these technologies, the ways in which they use them and what their perceptions and experiences are.

Democratization through the Media

Working paper 5 is the result of a review of the work of IKV Pax Christi in Morocco in the period 2007 – 2009. The review is commissioned by IKV Pax Christi to the University of Amsterdam and conducted by Dr. Francesco Cavatorta. IKV Pax Christi has co-organized a series of debates between Islamists and secularists in Morocco as part of a programme with Press Now entitled ‘Democratization through the media’. In these debates, participants discussed about various actual political problems in Morocco.

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