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Hi all,

We are inwards the pump of packing boxes as well as prepare for the motion to a novel bird side past times side week, as well as thence I’ll hold the intro short:

Development news: Angelina Jolie & how celebrities shouldn’t engage inwards distant places; how much ODA is actually pass on #globaldev? Can Gueterres disrupt United Nations bureaucracy? Uranium mining inwards Niger; i time as well as for all: Don’t shipping your sometime materials abroad/to refugees! Uganda’s novel activism; the IMF’s social protection thinking is behind the curve; Gentrifying Kibera-Kenya’s well-known slum; Kony’s bodyguard talks; perceptions of poverty of India’s urban youngsters; Sean Penn has a novel terrible help work(er) moving painting out; the problem amongst caste-free Bollywood movies; is the basis actually amend than ever?

Our digital lives: Participatory community mapping; how to ace narrative writing; the gendered challenges of paying women inwards exposure as well as equally influencers; where are the mothers inwards tidings rooms?

Publication: Digital anthropology from the fields. 

Academia: The expensive political economic scheme of academic conferences; publication, ability & patronage; laboring academia-a long read.

Enjoy!

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The privilege of giving career advice inwards international development
The toughest inquiry inwards price of career edifice is the inquiry of the slow changing ethical framework of international development: How tin sack I justify my engagement?
Duncan writes: ‘I loved writing; I was (broadly) on the left; I wanted to empathise social as well as political alter as well as if possible contribute to it.’
Is this notwithstanding plenty to create a career given our global Northern/ Western, manly mortal etc. privileges?
Since social alter commonly happens slower than nosotros anticipate my tentative respond is ‘yes, to some extent’-but the to a greater extent than of import questions for which I receive got no proficient respond at this phase is, to seat it to a greater extent than provocatively, who should receive got a career inwards international evolution inwards the hereafter as well as at what toll volition they take away identify inwards a globally accelerating undertaking market?
Development news

Review: Aid Workers inwards Love as well as War inwards Sean Penn’s ‘The Last Face’
At i indicate Ms. Theron’s graphic symbol asks, inwards voice-over, “In this identify of as well as thence much war, had I constitute peace?” The script, past times Erin Dignam, doesn’t larn much deeper than that. The romantic chemical scientific discipline betwixt Ms. Theron as well as Mr. Bardem feels forced throughout, never to a greater extent than as well as thence than inwards a scene of mutual seduction inwards a cutesy context of brushing teeth. Mr. Penn is to a greater extent than than competent inwards recreating the noise, gore as well as panic of state of war zones, but far less as well as thence inwards simulating the atmosphere of alienated romance mutual inwards 1960s European fine art films.
Glenn Kenny for the New York Times reviews some other bad help work(er) movie.

Missing inwards the Scene
Caste remains hugely of import inwards Bharat today, peculiarly inwards villages where in that location are denser traditional networks as well as occupations,which are at their thinnest inwards the city. While in that location are Dalit millionaires, who attempt to live exceptions to the rule, in that location are really few Dalits amidst the country’s novel pump classes.
This absence of depression castes amidst India’s amend off way that Hindi moving painting theater is caste- blind, rather than caste- neutral. Usually, everyone who mixes socially inwards such circles is upper caste. This is their version of a caste-free society, spell lower castes perchance dream of a caste-free social club where everyone is as well as thence good off that caste no longer matters.
Rachel Dwyer for the Open magazine amongst a reminder that Bollywood's caste-free movies do non hateful the scheme is no longer relevant.

Is the basis actually amend than ever?
Nestled within that essentially indisputable claim, in that location are several to a greater extent than controversial implications. For example: that since things receive got as well as thence clearly been improving, nosotros receive got proficient argue to assume they volition hold to improve. And farther – though this is a claim alone sometimes made explicit inwards the piece of work of the New Optimists – that whatever we’ve been doing these past times decades, it’s clearly working, as well as and thence the political as well as economical arrangements that receive got brought us hither are the ones nosotros ought to stick with.
Oliver Burkeman amongst a Guardian long-read that resonates amongst nitty-gritty evolution debates that fence that traditional economical growth-driven economies volition hold to deliver benefits as well as elevator people out of 'poverty'.

23 quotes past times famous people if they had worked inwards nonprofit
“Watch your thoughts; they buy the farm words. Watch your words; they buy the farm emails. Watch your emails; they buy the farm meetings. Watch your meetings; they buy the farm to a greater extent than meetings. Watch these meetings; they buy the farm your destiny.” Lao-Tzu
Vu Le for Nonprofit: Awesomely Fun!

Our digital lives
Participatory Community Network Mapping equally a Crucial Methodology for Social Innovation – Part 1 of an interview amongst Aldo de Moor
When done poorly, he cautions, community network maps tin sack undermine community piece of work past times beingness an empty distraction, offering the seduction of a silvery bullet, institutionalizing the misuse of power, as well as past times using limiting linguistic communication - linguistic communication that closes downward possibility, exploration as well as creativity, instead of opening them up.
But when done right, these kinds of maps tin sack live powerful catalysts for empowerment as well as emancipation.
Christine Capra interviews Aldo de Moor for Greater than the sum nigh the potential of community mapping exercises.

Katherine Boo’s xv rules for narrative nonfiction — straight off this is a “must-read”
Additionally, rather than “follow the money” or “follow the lies,” she says “follow the policy.” Policies are changing rapidly, as well as the impacts on pitiable communities are ofttimes obscured. Instead of merely gravitating to the aberrant, which is our journalistic instinct, Boo suggests also thinking nigh ways nosotros are interconnected.
Katia Savchuck for Nieman Storyboard amongst a groovy summary of Katherine Boo's rules for writing of import stories.

Thousands of women elbow grease to brand a living blogging as well as vlogging. Most fail.
There's various stats, as well as I receive got to await upwardly the i I used inwards the book, but I think it's maybe xv per centum of content creators brand to a greater extent than than $100 a year. It's a huge disparity. In price of fixing it, i of the problems, again, is that people who already come upwardly from a seat of privilege tin sack afford to piece of work for free, merely similar unpaid internships. So I think the most of import resolution is i of 2 things. One is collective advocacy inwards recognizing this equally a profession rather than a hobby, as well as also, calling attending to who pays as well as the amount. And as well as thence in that location was that ... I don't know, it was Who Pays Influencers website? Do yous recall that? That was maybe a twelvemonth as well as a one-half ago? I loved it, as well as it sort of disappeared.
Gaby Dunn for Vox talks to Brooke Erin Duffy’s nigh her novel mass as well as the gendered aspects of digital work.

Where Are the Mothers?
In an era of cost-cutting as well as layoffs, ongoing technological disruption, lack of populace trust inwards our work, as well as a hostile political climate, newsroom environments notwithstanding matter. It’s just because of these uncertainties that tidings organizations demand to live smart nigh how to hold talented, various groups of journalists, including mothers amongst immature children, inwards our ranks, doing the vital piece of work that needs to live done. Paid household unit of measurement leave, inclusive, flexible piece of work policies that do goodness everyone, as well as improved business office cultures are non tangential priorities; they are crucial to fostering a pipeline of young, innovative thinkers—the hereafter leaders of our industry.
Katherine Goldstein for Nieman Reports. Very interesting enquiry that raises many of import questions nigh the hereafter of piece of work to a greater extent than generally.

Hot off the digital press
Digital technology, transformation as well as social change
The Lab as well as this final result focus our attending on squarely on applied scientific discipline as well as change. That includes slow alter as well as fast change; little alter as well as transformational change; alter that nosotros create; changes nosotros desire to make; changes nosotros must make; as well as alter that happens to as well as merely about us. It includes changes inwards the domicile as well as changes inwards our social as well as political lives; as well as changes inwards the Global North as well as changes inwards the Global South.
Jessice Noske-Turner amongst a special final result of the opened upwardly access Wumen Bagung magazine featuring some actually interesting notes from the plain of digital anthropology!

Academia
The Great Conference Con?
Kelsky said that if she had to predict the hereafter of academic conferences, she’d anticipate a farther shift toward virtual conferences, amongst to a greater extent than interviews via Skype, inwards recognition of the fiscal constraints facing many participants. At the same time, she guessed in that location would live a continued reliance on in-person conferences for those who tin sack afford them.
In other words, she said, it’s “the continued feudalization of academia, where those at the meridian occupy a to a greater extent than as well as to a greater extent than isolated enclave of privilege as well as chance hoarding, at the expense of everyone else. Virtual options volition mitigate this to some extent, but equally yous know, some of the deepest human appointment remains face-to-face, as well as thence that selection volition be for, as well as benefit, those amongst funds.” Financial concerns notwithstanding, Reed, writing for Inside Higher Ed, said he wished academic conferences were a bigger component of community college life as well as cautioned against writing them off likewise quickly
Colleen Flaherty for Inside HigherEd reviews the electrical current iteration of the of the love-hate human relationship that many academics receive got amongst large, expensive conferences.

A Feminist Note on “Publication, Power, as well as Patronage”
To empathise why prestige notwithstanding marks a publishing scheme founded on the rhetoric of meritocracy, we’d demand to non accept that rhetoric at its give-and-take but instead empathise how it has functioned discursively, as well as ofttimes nefariously, inwards an establishment whose entire existence is predicated on keeping the channels narrow.And inwards doing that, we’d receive got to enquire whether such a scheme is worth redeeming, as well as why. That is: to what terminate do nosotros desire to diversify the “four leading journals inwards the humanities”?
Whitney Trettien presents her enquiry findings on how publications became the telephone substitution currency of modern academia-and how that has created a (male) elite hierarchy.

Laboring Academia
Most graduate schools acknowledge students to create total specific undertaking needs. One of the nitty-gritty functions of graduate programs is to heighten flexibility, e'er presenting merely plenty labor, merely inwards fourth dimension . . . The academic undertaking scheme creates holders of the Ph.D., but it doesn’t receive got much work for them . . . The scheme produces grade holders largely inwards the sense that a car’s engine produces heat—a tiny fraction of which is recycled into the car’s interior past times the cabin heater, but the vast bulk of which figures equally waste materials liberate energy that the scheme urgently requires to live radiated away.
Maximillian Alvarez for The Baffler. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 long-read for the weekend nigh academia as well as the capitalist condition-Marc Bousquet's quote inwards a higher identify was almost worth reading the essay ;)!

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