🥰 What's Love Got to Do with Development? 🥰

Season 3 kicks off on Valentines Day 2020 with Dr. Bob Huish offering Dr. John Cameron flowers and chocolates over a chat about the importance of Love in International Development. Mad Scientist Rick Sanchez called love "a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed", but Dr. Cameron's new line of research shows us that love is far more than that. It is essential for human capabilities, part of cosmopolitan theory, and there are positive ways of building it, protecting it, and even disingenuous ways of manipulating it. And it all matters for International Development Studies. Dr. John Cameron is an Associate Professor of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. His research focuses on public policy advocacy by international development and climate change organizations, Indigenous self-governance in Bolivia, the ethics of global citizenship, and representations of global poverty and development by non-profit and charitable organizations. Follow Dr. Huish on Twitter: @ProfessorHuish