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Hi all,

Greetings from Tbilisi where an excellent ComDev educational activity seminar is coming to its end!

It is too Friday-so in that location surface area links, readings, tweet & to a greater extent than to explore!

Development news: The political economic scheme of violence inward Mogadishu; assistance spending according to Norway & China; technology & citizens' voices; local capacity inward Puerto Rico; 'Africa Rising' based on faulty logic of growth? New challenges for GBV inward Nepal; Ghana & the open-source encyclopedia of Africa; Lagos displaces citizens for fine art biennial; the Liberation of Guinea-Bissau together with Cape Verde. 

Publications: Anthropology & the United Nations system; What is information justice? Journalism safety; Knowledge & trust inward an overheated world.

Academia: Scholarly blogging & usage of social media; decolonizing teaching; the blind spots of (journal) rankings.

Enjoy!

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Development news
The Business of Fear inward Boomtown Mogadishu
Business deals aren't done inward Mogadishu to finance the war, he says, nor is ideology fueling the conflict. Rather, he says, state of war is waged inward monastic tell to ensure that draw organization continues to boom.
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Somalia, Mac says, is a Earth inward which almost everything is broken, where almost everything is inward brusk supply, a "virgin state" without security, without structures -the best preconditions for business.
Fritz Schaap & Christian Werner for Spiegel Online International with an interesting accept on the political economic scheme of instability inward Somalia.

A handbook for revolution
Luis Cabral together with Aristides Perreira, Cabral’s confidants together with successors, handle to apply theoretical insights developed inward the bush to the actual chore of ruling ii newly independent states. Amidst a weakening Third Worldism inward which institutions of global finance are deployed to curvature radical regimes that refused to submit to the emerging neoliberal order, they handle to brain the warnings Cabral pose forward. Instead, both emerge equally strongman, ruling their respective countries inward ways unrecognizable to their depiction equally hopeful revolutionaries inward the text. Yet regardless of the disappointing trajectories both Republic of Guinea Bissau together with Republic of Cape Verde get got taken, the PAIGC handle for liberation deserves the attending it is alone straightaway starting to receive.
Zachariah Mampilly for Africa Is H5N1 Country introduces a novel edition of Basil Davidson’s No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky: The Liberation of Republic of Guinea-Bissau together with Cape Verde, 1963-74.

Our digital lives
Publications
Is the United Nations Broken?
But in that location is or thence other side to the U.N. that is non mired inward cynicism together with disillusionment, together with it rarely makes headlines. Despite all of the examples nosotros tin john detect of the nighttime side of global governance, in that location continues to move an abiding feel of promise that oftentimes attaches to the U.N., a hint of increment inward the blighted soil of its failures.
The groundswells of activism that emerge from a global (and seemingly growing) feel of humanity, united yesteryear ideals of accountability, democracy, together with justice, are or thence other component of the story of the United Nations. The U.N. is a coming together identify for activists together with province representatives—one inward which they tin john gather, away from the political pressures at home, together with beak through their issues. Global movements of women, children, people with disabilities, Indigenous peoples, and, most recently, those who are LGBTQ would non get got had nearly the variety of success they get got had without access to participation inward the U.N. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, for example, was penned at the U.N. inward 2006.
Ronald Niezen for Sapiens introduces a forthcoming mass that looks equally many aspects of United Nations piece of work from an ethnographic perspective. Sounds great!

What is information justice? The instance for connecting digital rights together with freedoms globally
Bringing together the emerging scholarly perspectives on this topic, I suggest iii pillars equally the footing of a notion of international information justice: (in)visibility, (dis)engagement with technology together with antidiscrimination. These pillars integrate positive with negative rights together with freedoms, together with yesteryear doing thence challenge both the footing of electrical flow information protection regulations together with the growing supposition that beingness visible through the information nosotros emit is component of the contemporary social contract.
Linnet Taylor with an opened upwards access article inward Big Data & Society.

New global study documents best practices on the security of journalists
One of the weaknesses of these country-wide mechanisms, equally too pointed out inward the study, is the fact that the mechanisms are largely dependent on unusual funding to function. Also, a lack of coordination together with agreed articulation priorities with international media evolution organisations together with with local media evolution actors inward or thence of the countries surveyed, has inward or thence instances weakened the overall affect of the efforts made to ameliorate safety.
International Media Support with a novel study that continues their fantabulous piece of work on liberty of phonation communication together with global journalism activities!

Free e-book from Overheating
In sum, then, yesteryear focusing on processes of alter with global/transnational together with local dimensions, nosotros aim to explore the human relationship betwixt cognition together with interests, local together with translocal levels of decision-making, together with local responses to rapid change. The interrogation ‘Who to trust?’ is implicit throughout, together with may move supplemented yesteryear the interrogation ‘Why should I trust them?’. Situations where information is consciously held dorsum for strategic reasons are explored, equally are straight confrontations betwixt community-based groups together with external actors, but critical discourse analysis indicating the boundaries of discursive universes is too here. While nosotros are alerted to the fact that the cognition claims of anthropology must, inevitably, move interrogated on a par with the other situated knowledges inward question, nosotros mainly explore contrasting/conflicting cognition regimes together with their implications, with an emphasis on the power–knowledge nexus together with the situated grapheme of cognition amidst rapid change.
Thomas Hylland Erikssen together with Elisabeth Schober with a novel opened upwards access E-Book.

Academia

The scholarly usage of social media
Nordicom Information asked or thence academic users inward the Nordic countries most their strategies together with experiences inward the most pop platforms of social media. (...). It seems that center issues are how to detect fourth dimension to attain content, maintain yourself motivated together with detect networks relevant to your ain research.
Maarit Jaakkola for Nordicom-Information with an interesting overview over scholarly social media practices.

A handbook for revolution
Luis Cabral together with Aristides Perreira, Cabral’s confidants together with successors, handle to apply theoretical insights developed inward the bush to the actual chore of ruling ii newly independent states. Amidst a weakening Third Worldism inward which institutions of global finance are deployed to curvature radical regimes that refused to submit to the emerging neoliberal order, they handle to brain the warnings Cabral pose forward. Instead, both emerge equally strongman, ruling their respective countries inward ways unrecognizable to their depiction equally hopeful revolutionaries inward the text. Yet regardless of the disappointing trajectories both Republic of Guinea Bissau together with Republic of Cape Verde get got taken, the PAIGC handle for liberation deserves the attending it is alone straightaway starting to receive.
Zachariah Mampilly for Africa Is H5N1 Country introduces a novel edition of Basil Davidson’s No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky: The Liberation of Republic of Guinea-Bissau together with Cape Verde, 1963-74.

Our digital lives
Publications
Is the United Nations Broken?
But in that location is or thence other side to the U.N. that is non mired inward cynicism together with disillusionment, together with it rarely makes headlines. Despite all of the examples nosotros tin john detect of the nighttime side of global governance, in that location continues to move an abiding feel of promise that oftentimes attaches to the U.N., a hint of increment inward the blighted soil of its failures.
The groundswells of activism that emerge from a global (and seemingly growing) feel of humanity, united yesteryear ideals of accountability, democracy, together with justice, are or thence other component of the story of the United Nations. The U.N. is a coming together identify for activists together with province representatives—one inward which they tin john gather, away from the political pressures at home, together with beak through their issues. Global movements of women, children, people with disabilities, Indigenous peoples, and, most recently, those who are LGBTQ would non get got had nearly the variety of success they get got had without access to participation inward the U.N. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, for example, was penned at the U.N. inward 2006.
Ronald Niezen for Sapiens introduces a forthcoming mass that looks equally many aspects of United Nations piece of work from an ethnographic perspective. Sounds great!

What is information justice? The instance for connecting digital rights together with freedoms globally
Bringing together the emerging scholarly perspectives on this topic, I suggest iii pillars equally the footing of a notion of international information justice: (in)visibility, (dis)engagement with technology together with antidiscrimination. These pillars integrate positive with negative rights together with freedoms, together with yesteryear doing thence challenge both the footing of electrical flow information protection regulations together with the growing supposition that beingness visible through the information nosotros emit is component of the contemporary social contract.
Linnet Taylor with an opened upwards access article inward Big Data & Society.

New global study documents best practices on the security of journalists
One of the weaknesses of these country-wide mechanisms, equally too pointed out inward the study, is the fact that the mechanisms are largely dependent on unusual funding to function. Also, a lack of coordination together with agreed articulation priorities with international media evolution organisations together with with local media evolution actors inward or thence of the countries surveyed, has inward or thence instances weakened the overall affect of the efforts made to ameliorate safety.
International Media Support with a novel study that continues their fantabulous piece of work on liberty of phonation communication together with global journalism activities!

Reasons to move blogging...1 2 3....
Secondly, blogging helps me to call back to a greater extent than clearly. I write together with compose a post equally a way of turning my abstract thoughts together with disparate ideas into or thence coherent together with meaningful whole. This post for example, started life equally a serial of notes on my smartphone afterwards a conversation. You mightiness move surprised how many posts I truly discard. Those that are truly published stand upwards for my thinking to a greater extent than clearly, together with blogging helps me to reverberate upon, together with crystallise those ideas.
Steve Wheeler's approach to blogging sounds rattling familiar to my ain practice.

Yes, nosotros must decolonise: our educational activity has to learn beyond elite white men
A decolonised curriculum would convey questions of class, caste, race, gender, powerfulness together with sexuality into dialogue with each other, instead of pretending that in that location is or thence variety of generic identity nosotros all share.
It is telling that efforts to inject or thence breadth together with diverseness into educational activity are beingness dismissed equally “artificial balance”. The supposition hither is exactly the work – that the best of all that has been thought together with said only happens to get got been produced inward the due west yesteryear white upper-class people, largely men.
Priyamvada Gopal for the Guardian with an of import reminder that 'decolonizing the curriculum' is non only most 'add global Southern voices together with stir', but requires us to re-think how nosotros instruct together with how nosotros select cognition for our classes.

Research assessments based on mag rankings systematically marginalise cognition from certainly regions together with subjects
For the reasons above, nosotros believe that to a greater extent than inclusive enquiry assessments are needed to overcome ongoing marginalisation of or thence peoples, languages, together with disciplines inward evaluation. Some efforts, such equally the Dutch “new criterion evaluation protocol” for the social sciences together with the “Norwegian model” of enquiry assessment that is sensitive to regional journals, get got moved inward this direction – trying to draw organization human relationship for the value of various disciplines together with local research. However, a creative together with radical reform inward enquiry evaluation from enquiry councils together with universities is needed inward many other countries that follow traditional quantitative methods.
Facing the challenges posed yesteryear sustainable evolution requires us to transform the concept of excellence from an elitist view, defined at a distance from society, to a to a greater extent than community-oriented, inclusive view, which encourages engagement. Such an agreement could attain enquiry evaluations that back upwards socially robust cognition together with are sensitive to the relevance of many various types of cognition that are currently underestimated.
Diego Chavarro & Ismael Ràfols for the LSE Impact Blog with an overview of enquiry that highlights what academic gut instinct has already been telling us: Rankings are never only an 'objective' collection of data! Another of import aspect inward the 'decolonization' debate!

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