Author: Tobias Denskus

Hi all,Another week is coming to its end and you are looking for Friday afternoon and weekend reading recommendations!Development news features inherent contradictions of the SDGs in a…

What started as a quick discussion on Facebook has turned into a great guest post by Hani Morsi.Hani is currently writing up his PhD at IDS Sussex on…

Hi all, After a short break we are getting ready for the new term and the blog activity will continue pretty much as normal in August. Development news…

As difficult as it is to engage with Nick Kristof’s latest column A Millennial Named Bush on George Bush’s daughter Barbara Bush without getting a little bit sick…

Hi all, This week’s regular link review (after last week’s ‘anniversary post’) focuses on the core themes of the blog, development, humanitarian and philanthropical topics. We start with a…

Hi all, Right in the middle of some kind of summer break, aidnography celebrates another link-related benchmark-welcome to link review #150!What I wrote in late 2013 to acknowledge…

You may have seen the #HackingTeam hack story emerging in your networks and thought it to be some strange, fringe tech-hack whatever issue…think again! As first insights from…

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…

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…

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,…

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 Co…

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…

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…

‘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…

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 befor…

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 conf…

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…

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…