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Hi all, Back from a short trip, good discussions about my latest post on Christian mission misrepresentations, time for weekend readings! Development news: Better journalism on Haiti; Coca…
Hi all, Back from a short trip, good discussions about my latest post on Christian mission misrepresentations, time for weekend readings! Development news: Better journalism on Haiti; Coca…
One of the recurring themes and aims of the blog is putting contemporary examples of popular communication about development issues into a broader context. The aim is to…
One of the recurring themes and aims of the blog is putting contemporary examples of popular communication about development issues into a broader context. The aim is to…
Hi all, I am on the road during the next couple of days-but no reason for you to spend a weekend without interesting and hopefully inspiring reading suggestions!Development…
Hi all, I am on the road during the next couple of days-but no reason for you to spend a weekend without interesting and hopefully inspiring reading suggestions!Development…
In many ways Peter Sutoris’ Visions of Development: Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948-75 is one of the most interesting historical case studies on…
Hi all, Welcome to another link review-this time at bit more balanced between the 3 parts-so do scroll down to the end ;)!Development news: Lacking punishment for attacking…
Dear all, These are exciting times at our Communication for Development program! The autumn semester with almost 150 students across all our courses is well underway and we…
Hi all, This is officially the 200th link review, but last week’s post already marked the official anniversary of curating development, ICT4D and higher education content since 2011.…
My first ever link review in November 2011 featured 3 international development links on study advice for MA programs, sanitation & hygiene and facilitating social change. When my…
Hi all, I can’t believe that this is already post no. 444 – and we are only one review away from the epic 200th anniversary! Development news: Why…
Hi all, Development news: UN’s humanitarian balancing acts in Syria; Basra, a dystopian city; NIKE & the women in Vietnam; is paying workshop participants wrong?; how to develop…
This weekend the Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday was quite chuffed: This makes conservative commentator Ian Birrell quite happy, of course, and he is quick to compliment Priti Patel,…
Hi all,Development news: JK Rowling takes on voluntourism; MSF, Kayla Mueller and caring for humanitarian aid workers; let’s talk fraud, NGOs! The overworked nonprofit employee is the new…
As my academic summer break is coming to its end, I am keen on sharing another book review with you. This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised…
Hi all, Happy World Humanitarian Day, happy Friday and happy reading with this week’s link review!Development news: UN admits role in Haiti cholera epidemic; World Bank economist writes…
It is the 2016 World Humanitarian Day today and publishing a review of Peter Gill’s Today We Drop Bombs, Tomorrow We Build Bridges: How Foreign Aid Became a…
Hi all,TGIF! Time for a fresh link review from the wonderful world of development, digital culture and higher education! Development news: The #allmalepanel gets a thorough feminist academic…
Hi all, Development news: Arms industry does well on refugee and terrorism threats; The hopelessness of Australian refugees in Nauru; hungry children in Northern Nigeria; the future of…
One of the overarching aims of my blog is to engage critically and academically with new, different and alternative approaches to writing and communicating ‘development’. I believe that…
Hi all,Development news: Aid delivery & kidnapping-the complexities of the humanitarian system; Social accountability and the risk of another buzzword; the business sector will not ‘fix’ developme…
As the Olympic Games in Rio are about to kick off, global media will once again have an opportunity to combine fairly apolitical reporting with some of the…
Hi all,Even if it is finally summer in Sweden, there is no break for great readings! Enjoy a sunny weekend-and put critical readings on your devices before you…
As some regular readers of the blog may know, I do review aid worker’s memoirs, broadly interpreted, as part of my ongoing research in this emerging field of…