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Honor Among Thieves (book review)
As more and more great reviews come in for J.’s latest installment of his aid work(er) romance novel, I am pleased to share some of my reflections on J.'s Honor Among Thieves. Since I have followed and...
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Hi all,Welcome back from the Easter break that most of you enjoyed in one way or another! There are quite a lot of Development news items this week starting with Oxfam's relocation to Nairobi, locally...
View ArticleAre NGO & civil society regulations the development version of 20th century...
In a comment a while ago I compared traditional, large development organizations to the music industry, suggesting that they risk of becoming the equivalent of CDs in the digital age if they do not...
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Hi all,Every link review has a different balance and this week has equally packed Development, Digital Lives & Academia parts!Sending TOMS shoes to Africa is still a flawed project, more critical...
View ArticleWhy Katie Hopkins is so dangerous for development (journalism)
While I checked the #isoj (International Symposium on Online Journalism) and #ijf15 (International Journalism Festival) hashtags from time to time over the weekend for some interesting, inspiring...
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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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Hi all,Greetings from Stockholm where I participated in an interesting consultation meeting about the World Development Report 2016 (I live-tweeted with the #spiderwdr2016 hashtag yesterday).But before...
View ArticleOf drones, encounters nothing short of life-changing & building a movement –...
‘Getting aid to a war zone in a swarm of drones’ popped up in my BBC app among many other articles over the weekend. It seemed like one of many articles that you have probably come across as well that...
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Hi all,I am very glad that all of my friends, colleagues and acquaintances in Kathmandu and beyond are physically well after the earth quake. However, with one exceptional link, I will not share...
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New research on International Development TED Talks & their role for...
Daniel Esser and I are very happy to share our latest research publication with you!TED Talks on International Development: Trans-Hegemonic Promise and Ritualistic Constraints is probably the first...
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Jeffrey Sachs-The Strange Case of Dr Shock and Mr Aid (book review)
As the recent long interview of Jeffrey Sachs by Tyler Cowen confirmed, Sachs remains one of the most visible, discussed and engaging thinkers of international development. Japhy Wilson’s book Jeffrey...
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Hi all,The busy end-of-term weeks are approaching fast, so I sort of skipped one link review and focused on other content instead (see below).But it also means that there are lots of interesting reads...
View ArticleIs banning Powerpoint from the classroom the best we can do for digital,...
Copenhagen Business School Professor Bent Meier Sörensen shared his interesting piece Let’s ban PowerPoint in lectures – it makes students more stupid and professors more boring on The Conservation - a...
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 our academic term is approaching its grande finale with 15 MA thesis examinations and a great seminar my link review is a bit shorter and more eclectic than normal, but nonetheless contains...
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The new prophets of capital (book review)
I enjoyed reading Nicole Aschoff’s The new Prophets of Capital on a recent journey between two of Sweden’s largest cities. Her book, which is actually a very accessible, jargon-free essayistic...
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Hi all, This blog has been silent for far too long! But the 'end of the term' period has turned into a rather prolonged period of wrapping up, examining, marking, plus engaging with a large UN agency...
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Status Update (book review)
Alice Marwick’s book Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age is a very important and timely book that deserves widespread attention in development and ICT4D circles....
View ArticleWho do anthropologists think they are?!
You may have followed the ensuing debates around Alice Goffman’s ethnography and the broader moral, ethical and potential legal implications of her written account based on six years of ethnographic...
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Hi all,Who do anthropologists think they are?! was my question last week. This week we have new links on the humanitarian economy, a growing number of children out of schools, social media and social...
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