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Chasing Chaos: My decade in and out of humanitarian aid (book review)
Reviewing books about aid work and particularly those written by aid workers is one of my ongoing projects where my academic interest in ‘popular representations of development’ merges with aspects of...
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Hi all,The last link review of the year-and it is basically list, listicle and 'best of' free! There will be my own end-of-year reflection tomorrow to wrap up aidnography before the holidays, but let's...
View ArticleMy development blogging review 2014
Dear all,I publish my fourth annual personal development blogging review (the ones from 2011, 2012& 2013 are still available) at the end of my first full year as Senior Lecturer in Communication...
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Hi all,Happy New Year! My first link review in 2015-and spending the holidays at home helped to collect a great variety of 2014 reflections, new stuff & the usual potpourri of readings that may be...
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Chasing Misery (book review)
Chasing Misery has quickly become one of my favorite books in the aid worker reflections and autobiographical writings on humanitarian work department. The main reason is that the book achieves...
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Hi all,A new semester just started and by-way of welcoming our new students, I am sharing a fresh link list with a lot of food for thought relevant for our ComDev program.Development news on how aid...
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A journey to the dark heart of nameless unspeakable evil (book review)
This is one of the strangest books I have come across so far reading and reviewing expat-written accounts on work and live ‘in development’ in the broadest sense. Unfortunately, by ‘strange' I don’t...
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Hi all,No long introductions this week...a packed link review, featuringDevelopment News on 'grit' and survival in humanitarian aid work; the data 'revolution' goes buzzword mainstream; how to be 'less...
View ArticleThe visible lessons of Invisible Children- #globaldev critique in the viral...
I largely disagree with Paul Currion’s post The invisible lesson of Invisible Children at IRIN News-even though I like their new approach to add more critical commentary to their very informative site....
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Hi all,As I was complaining on facebook about all-male panels I have to admit that my virtual panel of development commentators is also highly imbalanced this week :(. Nonetheless, there are some great...
View Article5 reasons why everyone should work for a large organization at some point in...
This is a re-post from our ComDev portal. I think it makes a nice addition to the Student advice section of the blog. As theautumn term was coming to an end, I had a discussion with a student about...
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Hi all,Another much-needed link review as interesting reads kept piling up in my Inbox...Development news looks at impact of policy briefs, the cost of post-2015 data collection, an extended section on...
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Blinded by Humanity (book review)
One of the privileges of being able to read, think and write about books in the context of international development work and its people is to explore the breadth and depth of this growing genre. My...
View ArticleAre 80 million potential voluntourists, slacktivists & DIY humanitarians the...
Forgive the catchy headline, but this is still a development blog ;)! To answer my question straight away: No, of course not. But wait, there’s more… In a recent NPR feature How Millennials Are...
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Hi all,The latest link review once again reminded me what a fantastic network of friends, colleagues and digital acquaintances I have that do and write about really great stuff!Development news...
View ArticleThe future of expats in a globalized development industry-Reflections on the...
Last week DevEx’ Kate Warren shared three major points from the DevEx Career Forum:1. The localization of aid movement has drastically changed career opportunities for both international and local...
View ArticleWhy I promote book reviews
Book reviews are time consuming and are usually read and shared less than other blog content-so why bother with them? Book reviews have been one pillar of my blog since I started Aidnography in...
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Hi all,New week, fresh linkage!'Yoga is helping to end poverty in Africa'-you, I & Jeff Sachs knew it all along! But there are better stories from Africa, including storytelling from South Sudan...
View ArticleThe professionalization of development volunteering – towards a new global...
Recently, three separate incidents have caught my attention: A new report from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) on The role of volunteering in sustainable development was launched, a post on...
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Hi all,The last week was just crazy and we essentially skipped one iteration of your favorite link review. But I enjoyed the debates around my reflections on development volunteering and the rise of a...
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