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Hi all,  Your fresh Friday food for thought! Development news: Humanitarian crises in 2018; an excellent long-read about the protracted crisis in and around Chad; NGOs blocked from WTO summit; humanitarian data breach; WFP & the blockchain hype; the use of untested 'innovation' vs. humanitarian law & principles; Uganda's lucrative orphanage complex; visualizing #globaldev from Barbie Savior to female war photographer; from banker to peacekeeper; the language of sexual exploitation; fiction from Nigeria; transformational change leadership; journalism from Sri Lanka & 30 things to think about. Our digital lives: China's bike graveyard; facebook enters mentoring, learning & education; the image(s) of Mark Zuckerberg. Academia: Banning laptops & other things from the classroom; don't fall for fake conferences! Enjoy! New from aidnography Achieved my popular media engagement quota for this week thanks to @schmarsten 's inclusion of my #al

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Hi all, After a lot of food for the body for most who celebrate Thanksgiving, here's your weekly food for mind & soul ;)! Development news: Protracted conflict & lives in South Sudan; Radi-Aid award finalists; reparations as radical philanthropy in Africa; governance (un)reform in Nepal; innovations in bureaucracy; communicating a project evaluation from Uganda; successful community-driven activism in Malawi; pity, politeness & charity communications. Our digital lives: Better (humanitarian) news consumption; self-care beyond bath salts & chocolate; the sound & power of algorhythmic governance. Publications: An ethnography of social media in Trinidad; fixing the journalist-fixer relationship; gender equality in higher education. Academia: De-colonising education in South Africa; the utility of blogging & blogs in #highered. Enjoy! New from aidnography The complexities of the ‘lifting people out of poverty’ narrative It was probably Dina Pomeranz’ lon

The complexities of the ‘lifting people out of poverty’ narrative

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If you do Twitter right (full disclosure: I also follow Only in Russia and The Dodo ) it can be an awesome space for global development debates. There are a lot of smart people in my regular feed that share interesting, important empirical insights into development research e.g. Dina Pomeranz, Alice Evans, Maya Forstater, David Evans, or Justin Sandefur. Hey, I'm doing a podcast, discussing fascinating research from 2017 on global development, inequality, & social change Suggestions welcome! — Alice Evans (@_alice_evans) November 18, 2017 Making sense of the #Paradisepapers : are we drawing the right conclusions from this 'scandal'? https://t.co/5yjQOPO6V7 — Maya Forstater (@MForstater) November 17, 2017 7 new papers on governance, bureaucracy, social capital, and economic development https://t.co/DTY3FbM00O pic.twitter.com/HA96OUnnO7 — David Evans (@tukopamoja) November 22, 2017 1/ I've been avoiding Liberia education drama for a bit, bu

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Hi all, It has been a loooong week-as you probably guessed by the delayed publication of this week's review. However, as always there is plenty of food for thought on everything from war crimes to labeling a 'hut', from sexual violence to empowering stories featuring women from Kenya and Bolivia, from misguided stereotypes about India to revolutionary global ecosocialism, from laptop humanitarians to civil society claqueurs, from Bono to Louise Linton! Enjoy! New from aidnography Blogging and curating content as strategies to decolonize development studies In our crowded digital lives this means that curation and facilitation will become more important skills for those working in academia because there is already an abundance of diverse material from many sources. Strengthening connections and discussions, often with the aid of technological tools, thereby creating a global understanding of ‘development’ from social movements to debating inequalities and power/powerless