Tag: Research as advocacy

Doing Development the Right Way: A Conversation with Charles Piot

Anthropologist Charlie Piot has been conducting research on the political economy and history of rural West Africa for over thirty years. His first book, Remotely Global: Village Modernity…

Post date 2nd April 2018
Post author By Alma Gottlieb
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Everything You Thought You Knew about Orphans in Africa Is Probably Wrong

Alma Gottlieb

Policy makers, development workers, orphanage voluntourists, missionaries, prospective adoptive parents: ignore this book at your peril. “AIDS orphans” are commonly imagined as the…

Post date 15th December 2017
Post author By Alma Gottlieb
Post categories In English