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This course explores key contemporary political issues in the underdevelopment of the Global South particularly in the context of the global climate emergency. Through the ideas of key invited academics and practitioners, students will explore issues such as decolonial thought, inequality, environmental justice, and indigenous world-making in theory and practice.ÌýThe module will feature high profile guest lecturers, experts and policy makers presenting the most recent thinking on today’s global challenges. In addition, by foregrounding voices from the Global South, students will be exposed to ideas and views that may contest conventional thinking as taught and understood in the Global North and within ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº itself.ÌýStudents will hear from leading academics, including staff from EISPS specialising in relevant fields, as well as practitioners working in multilateral organisations, political parties, charities, social movement organisers and the media. We will bring the real world to the classroom, and take our students outside the classroom on at least one field trip in London that explores a theme of global relevance.ÌýThe aim of the module is for students to engage with decolonial thought and interdisciplinary practice as a means of developing generative and collaborative team-building and thought leadership skills among students.ÌýAlongside the ten taught core learning topics (10hrs), students will work in groups in two 5-hour Policy Lab workshops/hackathons, on a topic or problem of their choice with the aim of creating an output that would be of relevance and good use to any group, community or organisation that the group chooses.