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Hi all,

Before I'm heading to Pretoria for a calendar week to participate inwards the kick-off workshop of the novel Swedish-South African University Network, I'm sharing my regular Fri link review.
There may non live a novel i side past times side calendar week due to travel-so don't read everything at i time ;)!

This week's theme is definitely 'humanitarianism'-from disaster capitalism inwards Puerto Rico to novel forms of assist in addition to anthropological reflections equally good equally enquiry ethical challenges surrounding the concept of 'doing good'...

But at that topographic point are also insights into global educational activity challenges, preventing conflicts, artificial intelligence in addition to how students should challenge the neoliberal academy!

Enjoy!

New from aidnography
Love, Africa (book review)
At the destination of the day, Gettleman’s memoir is non an exceptional slice of writing or insight in addition to maybe other reviewers had expected more, because he is non ‘just’ a regular humanitarian assist worker or traveling journalist. He delivers an entertaining memoir that clearly has potential for farther discussions in addition to non-expert appointment unopen to topics of unusual correspondents in addition to journalism from in addition to near Africa, but ultimately falls a chip curt equally self-reflective, in addition to –critical assessment of how white men, global media brands in addition to expat bubbles create ‘our’ icon of a chop-chop changing continent with its 54 countries.

Third World Quarterly & the colonialism debate
The saga continues in addition to my Storify features an overview over the latest twists in addition to turns...

Development intelligence
Has the United Nations failed Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims?

The UN's priorities inwards Rakhine were examined inwards a study commissioned past times the United Nations inwards 2015 entitled "Slippery Slope: Helping Victims or Supporting Systems of Abuse".
Leaked to the BBC, it is damning of the UNCT approach.
"The UNCT strategy with honor to human rights focuses besides heavily on the over-simplified hope that evolution investment itself volition cut back tensions, failing to receive got into occupation organisation human relationship that investing inwards a discriminatory construction run past times discriminatory dry soil actors is to a greater extent than probable to reinforce discrimination than alter it."
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"I call upwardly the key lesson for Myanmar from Sri Lanka is the lack of a focal point. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 senior grade focal betoken addressing the province of affairs inwards Myanmar inwards its totality - the political, the human rights, the humanitarian in addition to the development. It remains diffuse. And that agency over the final few years at that topographic point receive got been almost competing agendas."
So mightiness a different approach from the United Nations in addition to the international community receive got averted the humanitarian disaster nosotros are seeing now? It's hard to consider how it mightiness receive got deterred the Burmese army's massive reply next the 25 August Rohingya militant attack
Jonah Fisher for BBC. As always, it is of import to stress that the United Nations industrial plant on the invitation of in addition to with governments; they can't merely intervene against the volition of the regime. But at that topographic point are apparently a few strategic options that the United Nations systems could receive got explored further...

The United Nations full general assembly’s events receive got genuinely terrible titles—so nosotros fixed them
Scaling Impact Investing
The ultimate guide to investing ethically spell withal making a ton of cash
Private Sector Accountability for Women, Children in addition to Adolescents
Companies everywhere abuse women in addition to kids, in addition to straightaway it’s payback fourth dimension
Business Fights Poverty: Rethinking Collaboration for the SDGs
How I learned to halt beingness greedy in addition to honey coming together anti-poverty goals
Annalisa Merelli in addition to Max de Haldevang for Quartz with their ain version of UNGA contrary 'bullshit Bingo'...

'In school, but learning nothing'
"Many of these children are non hidden or isolated from their governments in addition to communities - they are sitting inwards classrooms," said Silvia Montoya, manager of the Unesco Institute for Statistics.
She said the study was a "wake-up telephone band for far greater investment inwards the lineament of education".
This job of "schooling without learning" was also highlighted past times the World Bank inwards a study this week.
It warned that millions of immature people inwards low- in addition to middle-income countries were receiving an inadequate educational activity that would leave of absence them trapped inwards low-paid in addition to insecure jobs.
Sean Coughlan for BBC with reminder that focusing on edifice schools in addition to featuring boys in addition to girls inwards schoolhouse uniforms inwards your organization's PR materials is really non plenty to prepare immature people for a complex future...

Why would anyone inwards Puerto Rico desire a hurricane? Because someone volition acquire rich.
The paradox of these Caribbean Area societies is that their economical challenges are ofttimes masked past times an appearance of prosperity. Despite their relatively high incomes, places similar Guiana, an overseas subdivision of France, in addition to Puerto Rico fighting with inflated prices for basic goods because of steep shipping costs from their colonial centers in addition to restrictive legislation, such equally the Jones Act, which limits their powerfulness to engage inwards to a greater extent than favorable trade. This agency many materials necessary for tempest training — tempest windows, generators, battery-powered electronics — deport toll tags that are prohibitive for many. This spring, residents of Guiana sustained an 11-day majority strike to protestation the economical hardship in addition to social insecurity experienced past times residents who experience ignored in addition to abandoned past times their regime across the ocean.
Yarimar Bonilla for the Washington Post on Caribbean Area disaster capitalism in addition to colonial pasts in addition to presents.

Ounces of prevention, pounds of cure
The returns to prevention tin basically live broken downward into ii parts: saved costs (the costs of reconstruction through unusual aid, the costs of peacekeeping inwards the recovery phase, humanitarian response, in addition to so forth); in addition to prevented damages (the economical value of lives lost in addition to the cost of foregone economical increment due to conflict). Due to the huge impact that violence has on economical growth, the lost gross domestic production (GDP) plays a key role inwards the loss estimate.
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This $33 Billion is internet of the savings on prevention in addition to reflects both gross domestic product gains equally good equally avoiding fatalities in addition to expenditures on peacekeeping in addition to humanitarian response.
Gary Milante in addition to Hannes Mueller for sipri with novel evidence that prevention tops reconstruction; the total World Bank-UN study 'Pathways for Peace' is also available now.

The basis is losing a generation of evolution leaders, in addition to Melinda Gates wants to create that
That thought straightaway has a name: Pathways for Prosperity, an inaugural Gates announced today at a dinner held past times the foundation on the sidelines of this year’s UNGA. Due to boot off inwards January, Pathways volition probable fund enquiry unopen to the futurity of work, access to services such equally finance in addition to wellness care, in addition to security nets to protect the hapless in addition to powerless. It volition also convene discussions unopen to those topics, potentially extending into hackathons in addition to idiot box programs.
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Gates said Pathways volition get together amongst them a nitty-gritty of 10 or 12 evolution experts, practitioners, technologists, in addition to academics. The Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University is expected to live the Pathways secretariat, managing in addition to staffing it in addition to directing the enquiry agenda.
Kevin Delaney for Quartz. Philanthrocapitalists, sigh...not that at that topographic point is anything incorrect with the agenda, but past times focusing on private leaders in addition to involving a traditional establishment similar Oxford you lot volition acquire to a greater extent than of the same...which is a shame at Gates has the powerfulness in addition to capacity to do something differently-and facial expression for different models in addition to places!

Why Hollywood’s White Savior Obsession Is an Extension of Colonialism
There are many ways that Hollywood could do better. First, it could hire to a greater extent than various writers. Representation comes through hiring trans in addition to nonbinary writers, dark in addition to brownish writers, queer in addition to disabled writers; it’s near engaging inwards the problematics of a scheme in addition to non hiding from the reality that perpetuating whiteness equally a norm hasn’t got us anywhere, ahem. The most damning occupation of the white savior complex is that Hollywood is making content for us, but without us inwards mind, usurping our stories with a white person’s guilt. If nosotros desire stronger storytelling, nosotros receive got to live willing to invest inwards those who receive got that lived experience in addition to nurture their voices, too. Because Hollywood is reliant upon us both to create coin in addition to to survive.
Fariha Róisín for Teen Vogue on the persistent problem with white saviors on screen.

Our digital lives

Chasing the Flame: Does Media Coverage of Wildfires Probe Deeply Enough?
As it turns out, nosotros know trivial near how local media engage with the increasingly mutual occurrence of repeated catastrophic wildfires, which mightiness inspire a different style of reporting. As a old journalist myself, I was particularly curious to know more.
These questions sent us earthworks into a stack of 1,702 intelligence articles published past times local media inwards Colorado before, during in addition to after the 2012 wildfire flavour – the state’s worst inwards history. As nosotros analyzed these stories, an unexpected tendency appeared: Articles published on wildfires’ anniversaries were to a greater extent than probable to select upwardly tough policy questions than stories published at other times of year.
Adrianne Kroepsch for Scientific American with an overview of her latest enquiry on local media journalism in addition to moving from final result coverage to call for to a greater extent than political questions near wildfires.

Publications
Learn from the Past, Prepare for the Future: Impacts of Education in addition to Experience on Disaster Preparedness inwards the Philippines in addition to Thailand
Controlling for the interplay betwixt educational activity in addition to disaster experience, nosotros present that educational activity raises disaster preparedness solely for those households that receive got non been affected past times a disaster inwards the past. Education improves abstract reasoning in addition to anticipation skills such that the amend educated undertake preventive measures without needing to root experience the harmful final result in addition to and then larn later. In describe with recent efforts of various United Nations agencies inwards promoting educational activity for sustainable development, this study provides a enterprise empirical evidence showing positive externalities of educational activity inwards disaster chance reduction.
Roman Hoffman in addition to Raya Muttarak with an opened upwardly access article inwards World Development.

Humanitarianism
Everyday humanitarian practices tin straightaway receive got identify inwards many different realms: inwards consumption, entertainment, or across social media. These are all areas that are traditionally considered exterior of the humanitarian scope, non to the lowest degree because of their association with market-driven in addition to celebrity-oriented activity rather than altruism in addition to anonymity. Such practices tin alter – inwards both conservative in addition to critical ways – how nosotros seek to assist others, in addition to how call upwardly of ourselves when doing so.
Lisa Richey with an overview over contemporary approaches to humanitarianism for the International Political Economy of Everyday Life.

Academia
Vernacular #Humanitarianism, Adhocracy, in addition to the Problem of Emotion
But equally the experience of the BRSN shows, vernacular humanitarianism is ofttimes held hostage to the emotional in addition to social needs of its donors, leaving assist delivery uneven in addition to unstable inwards both infinite in addition to time. Tightly saltation to its social context, vernacular humanitarianism ofttimes leaves recipients equally abstract in addition to obscure figures abstracted from the existent political in addition to historical contexts that displaced them, in addition to hence inadvertently reinforces the othering that characterizes anti-immigrant rhetoric (Malkki 1996). If the job with institutional humanitarianism is that it operates through a chaotic in addition to improvised “adhocracy” rather than the rationalized bureaucracy it claims to receive got (Dunn 2012), vernacular humanitarianism offers no remedy.
Sadly, for all its promise, humanitarianism exterior the organizational structures of the international scheme seems unlikely to supersede its institutional counterpart.
Elizabeth Cullen Dunn for AllegraLab with an interesting reflection on novel forms of humanitarianism in addition to old problems of political in addition to organizational limitations.

“Responsible Research”: Reducing Risk or Improving Well-being?
But, spell local enquiry codes in addition to guidelines are a commendable in addition to mayhap necessary intervention inwards some cases, equally mentioned above, I worry that such enquiry ethical guidelines may offering an illusion or hope of a template for an ethically elementary enquiry project, erased of inevitable noesis in addition to powerfulness asymmetries. Do such indigenous ethics codes shift the cardinal measures of what is considered “responsible research”? Do they leave of absence on to operate inside a image of “reducing risks” or volition they opened upwardly up novel possibilities of scientific discipline in/with/for communities?
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But, spell local enquiry codes in addition to guidelines are a commendable in addition to mayhap necessary intervention inwards some cases, equally mentioned above, I worry that such enquiry ethical guidelines may offering an illusion or hope of a template for an ethically elementary enquiry project, erased of inevitable noesis in addition to powerfulness asymmetries. Do such indigenous ethics codes shift the cardinal measures of what is considered “responsible research”? Do they leave of absence on to operate inside a image of “reducing risks” or volition they opened upwardly up novel possibilities of scientific discipline in/with/for communities?
Angela Okune for Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism inwards Africa continues this subdivision on humanitarianism with of import reflections on enquiry ethics in addition to involving 'native people'.

Doing Fieldwork amongst People We Don’t (Necessarily) Like
There is an albeit modest window of chance straightaway for anthropologists to come upwardly to ethnographic grips with the ascension of far- in addition to populist right-wing formations inwards both Europe in addition to the US of America in addition to what their ascension enjoin us near the changing nature of our lives, societies in addition to politics at the moment. We could do worse than stepping upwardly to this challenge hither in addition to straightaway at a fourth dimension when what was i time on the fringe inwards our ain societies receive got all of abrupt in addition to quite disturbingly turned mainstream.
Sindre Bangstad for Anthropology News. Engaging with groups in addition to people from exterior the filter bubble is a nitty-gritty trait of anthropology. But at that topographic point are some points where I disagree with Sindre. We also demand to live aware of the powerfulness of legitimizing radical, absurd, 'stupid' in addition to fringe groups in addition to their believes. What could an actual enquiry agenda facial expression similar that doesn't precisely uncover the same stuff near 'Trump voters' that nosotros don't know already? Why is it of import to empathize the super-rich or super-right/left-wing-beyond what nosotros already know anyway?!?

Speak out, acquire feedback in addition to don’t live a consumer: advice for a novel student
Students demand to live offered an surroundings for learning, in addition to if that’s non forthcoming they should demand it to live so. “The to a greater extent than it costs, the less it’s worth,” students shouted inwards protestation to the introduction of fees in addition to indebtedness. Nevertheless, thinking in addition to intellectual increment cannot live purchased “off the peg”. It makes universities into places of skills transmission, or a variety of fiscal transaction. The academy tin foster a identify where nosotros tin “think together” near hard problems in addition to practise what Fichte called the “exercise of critical judgment”. This agency non beingness precisely a consumer, in addition to thinking for yourself with others.
Les Back for the Guardian with advice for (new) students on how to maneuver neoliberal academia.

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