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Director's Summer
Reading List 2024

Recommendations for your Summer reading from Professor Henrietta L. Moore and the Institute for Global Prosperity
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Claudio Gambardella

What does ‘Nature’ mean nowadays? What effort is required of us to reposition ourselves with respect to it? How can we reconsider our history, our being in the world and the future with respect to a new idea of Nature? Finally, what is our correct position to establish the most effective actions in order to improve the living conditions of men on Earth?

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Colin Ramsay – Director
Claire Mackenzie – Producer

A documentary film looking at the inspiring story of British farmers standing up against the industrial food system and transforming the way they produce food - to heal the soil, benefit our health and provide for local communities.

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Fredrik Gertten – Director
Margarete Jangård – Producer

This film follows Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, as she’s travelling the globe, trying to understand who’s being pushed out of the city and why. “I believe there’s a huge difference between housing as a commodity and gold as a commodity. Gold is not a human right, housing is,” says Leilani.

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Martin MacInnes

**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023**

 

Exploring the natural world with the wonder and reverence we usually reserve for the stars, In Ascension is a compassionate, deeply inquisitive epic that reaches outward to confront the greatest questions of existence, looks inward to illuminate the smallest details of the human heart, and shows how - no matter how far away we might be and how much we have lost hope - we will always attempt to return to the people and places we call home.

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Neil McCulloch

This book explains what fossil fuel subsidies are, how they inflict harm and what steps are being taken to reduce them. It also shows why subsidies persist and why existing efforts have been so ineffective. Drawing lessons from countries which have tried to remove fossil fuel subsidies, it explains that the fundamental challenge to reform is not technical, but political. 

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Bernardine Evaristo

‘Girl, Woman, Other’ follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends, and lovers, across the country and through the years.

This is Britain as you’ve never read it.
This is Britain as it has never been told.

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Ayşe Zarakol

For the first time, Before the West offers a grand narrative of (Eur)Asia as a space connected by normatively and institutionally overlapping successive world orders originating from the Mongol Empire. It also uses that history to rethink the foundational concepts and debates of international relations, such as order and decline.

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Isabella Hammad 

**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024** 


Reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine.

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Joseph E. Stiglitz

A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom. In this book, Stiglitz asks whose freedom are we – should we be – thinking about? What happens when one person’s freedom comes at the expense of another’s? Should the freedoms of corporations be allowed to impinge upon those of individuals in the ways they now do?

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nGbK

Municipal Kitchens brings together a multitude of artistic practices and positions around a central sculptural installation, the ‘kitchen table’, to develop visions for another form of food culture. The surrounding exhibition will feature works that interrogate the current state and injustice of food systems, as well as ones that develop visions for new forms of community-based eating.

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Yelé ft. Sukhdev Prasad Mishra – Artists

Listen to this moving song by musicians Yelé featuring Sukhdev Prasad Mishra 

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Ailton Krenak

Ailton Krenak demonstrates that our current environmental crisis is rooted in society’s flawed concept of “humanity” — that human beings are superior to other forms of nature and are justified in exploiting it as we please. To stop environmental disaster, Krenak argues that we must reject the homogenizing effect of this perspective and embrace a new form of “dreaming” that allows us to regain our place within nature. In Ideas to Postpone the End of the World, he shows us the way.

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About the Institute for Global Prosperity

The Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) is redesigning prosperity for the 21st century, changing the way we conceive and run our economies, and reworking our relationship with the planet. IGP's vision is to build a prosperous, sustainable, global future, underpinned by the principle of fairness and justice, and allied to a realistic, long-term vision of humanity's place in the world. 

The IGP undertakes pioneering research that seeks to dramatically improve the quality of life for this and future generations. Its strength lies in the way it allies intellectual creativity to effective collaboration and policy development. Of particular importance to the IGP's approach is the way in which it integrates non-academic expertise into its knowledge generation by engaging with governments, policy makers, business, civil society, the arts and local communities.

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