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Hello all,As a ground-breaking Thanksgiving change to the link review I have reversed the order this week and start with interesting insights from Academiabefore moving on to Anthropology and finally...
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The Golden Fleece (book review)
I firmly believe that in our fast-paced development communication world of blog posts, TedX talks and nightly Twitter discussions and despite crisis calls from traditional publishers, books will...
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Hello all,This week's links focus is on a slightly broader range of development-related topics from fighting censorship to unpaid care-giving, another new development professional network, Canada's...
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A consultant speaks out on the donor economy in Cyprus-Interview with Kate Flynn
My interview with Kate Flynn on speaking out as a development consultant on European aid in Cyprus, the power of traditional news media & the challenges for critical academics in the UK. A few...
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Hello all!There are no signs of a pre-holiday slowdown when it comes to interesting stuff on development and academia! If you haven't done yet, I suggest my interview with Kate Flynn on European aid in...
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Drones for peace and development?
Two recent news items related to unarmed aerial vehicles (UAV) in the context of security and development caught my eyes: First, the UN announced that they are looking into using UAVs to gather...
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Hello all!It turns out that this week's link review focuses on academic debates and a few 'meta' discussions of what it means to engage with 'development'. The discussions around J.'s reflections on a...
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My development blogging review 2012
Sometimes it's not that bad if you are proven wrong...I wrote almost a year ago in my last annual development blogging review ‘The development blogging year of 2012 will most likely be similar to...
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Hello all!As the year is coming to its end, a special period of reflection for many of us seems to be setting in over the final stretch of 'the holidays'. So I started combing through my...
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Participatory plastic words: On the EU's European Year of Citizens
2013 is the European Year of Citizens!The better the men and women of Europe understand their rights as EU citizens, the more informed the decisions they can take in their personal lives, and the more...
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Hello all!Happy New Year! And welcome to the first regular Thursday link review of 2013!There's some interesting stuff to kick-off a new year in development (blogging), featuring a very interesting...
View ArticleSimulating civil society participation, European Investment Bank edition
I am a firm believer that relatively small, routine events, conferences or seminars actually say quite a lot about large organizations and how they perceive their environment and engage with the...
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A picture says more than...Merry Christmas, Africa from the German ministry...
Merry Christmas, Africa!German minister for development cooperation Dirk Niebel wishes every giraffe and roundhouse happy holidays Christmas in this official newspaper ad from December 2012 (not...
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Hello all,A link list featuring interesting opposites: First, it seems that this week's links would turn into a 'Max Weber bureaucracy memorial list', but luckily, in the second half there are some...
View ArticleRituals, risk, development & Aaron Swartz – in response to Owen Barder
Owen Barder just wrote a very interesting post on Aaron Swartz’ legacy and how his work is linked to international development and future debates especially in the area of ICT4D (Development and the...
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Hello all,It's one of those weeks where basically all of my favorite topics are featured in the weekly link review in one way or another: The value of anthropologists in a great piece on Mali; the...
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How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster (book review)
Jonathan Katz’ book The Big Truck That Went By. How The World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disasterhas already received a lot of recognition and positive endorsement and I do agree that his...
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Hello all,It's always neat when the weekly link collection ends up with some kind of theme or thread guiding my collecting and commenting and hopefully your reading, too...I guess this week is all...
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Hello all,One of the things I like about my weekly link review is that's it's always a bit unpredictable. So this week's list is much more eclectic and there isn't really a 'theme', well, that's not...
View ArticleWhat I learnt from looking behind The Global Journal's Top 100 NGO ranking
It is probably fair to say that The Global Journal’s Top 100 NGO ranking had a bit of a bumpy start. When it launched the first edition in 2012, Dave Algoso’s critical post and editor Jean-Christophe...
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