People vs Inequality podcast & blog

A longer version of this blog was published on the Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity website https://afsee.atlanticfellows.org/blog/2021/tackling-inequality-in-times-of-crisis-insights-from-the-people-vs-inequality-podcast .   Tackling Inequality in Times of Crisis: Insights from the People vs Inequality Podcast Barbara van Paassen, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.” ( Arundhati Roy, 2020 ) So how can we use this opportunity to do things differently, at a time in which growing inequalities are destroying lives, threatening our societies and endangering our planet? This is one of the key questions of the People vs Inequality podcast , a space to reflect and learn with change-makers working to tackle inequalities and injustice. In order to start developing an answer t...

I am very excited to present the fourth and last episode of the first series of the People vs Inequality podcast. This is the moment we bring together the different pieces and try to answer the question this all started with: Women’s economic justice -how can we make covid the game changer we so desperately need? What are some of the lessons and the opportunities or pockets of hope to build upon? We reflect back on the stories of Elizabeth, Emilia and Anuradha in the first three episodes and explore new insights and strategies to use this ‘portal’ for real change.  We do this reflection together with yet another three amazing women: Naila Kabeer, Professor of Gender and Development at the London School of Economics (LSE), Armine Ishkanian, Associate Professor Social Policy and director of the Atlantic Fellowship programme on Social and Economic Equity, and Njoki Njehu, long time organizer and Pan Africa coordinator of the Fight Inequality Alliance. (See their impressive ...