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Hi all,

Happy New Year!

The 2019 blogging twelvemonth is already inward total swing in addition to my showtime link review is non fifty-fifty attempting to 'catch up' amongst stuff from the holidays; I included a few interesting pieces from Dec for goodness measure, simply essentially nosotros are celebrating a novel year!
 
Enjoy!

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My evolution blogging twelvemonth 2018 inward review
I looked at the summit spider web log posts in addition to mass reviews for 2018 in addition to I mean value that they quite nicely stand upward for some of the bigger debates the #globaldev community grappled amongst terminal year.
From Hollywood to Holy Wars (book review)
In the end, From Hollywood to Holy Wars (despite the slightly cheesy title…) delivers a well-balanced memoir inward which Cherie Hart finds a genuinely squeamish residue betwixt critical reflection on her United Nations operate without descending into snark in addition to sharing an assist worker life amongst the correct dose of work-life balance. Hopefully her easy-going mass volition inspire to a greater extent than women to write close their experiences ‘in development’ in addition to add together to a greater extent than nuances to to a greater extent than traditional accounts of how the assist manufacture genuinely worked in addition to the challenges on personal relationships in addition to families patch ‘saving the world’.
Development news

The global hapless larn online for the same reasons you lot do
News flash: Internet users inward the developing globe convey the same motivations you lot do. They larn online, equally digital anthropologist Payal Arora explains inward her novel book, because they’re hungry, horny, happy, lonely, or bored.
Aimee Ortiz talks to Payal Arora for the Boston Globe close her forthcoming book.

Why smartphones are skewing immature Indians’ ideas of sex
"We convey non grown upward beingness given sexual activity teaching or having normal adult conversations close these things," says filmmaker in addition to author Paromita Vohra. She runs the website Agents of Ishq (Romance), which encourages opened upward discussions close sex.
"When people exclusively picket vehement sexual content, it is real desensitising because they start believing that violence is the exclusively agency to larn pleasance in addition to that woman individual consent is unimportant."
India has 400 1000000 smartphone users, in addition to to a greater extent than than one-half of them occupation WhatsApp, which is the medium oft used to part such videos.
BBC News amongst a storey of 'ICT4Bad' from Bharat in addition to the huge amount of (digital) operate that is yet necessary to create a condom environs for women in addition to girls equally digital tools are spreading inward the 'global South'.

Migrant Caravan Teens Talk About What It's Like to Get Your Period
While furnish was non such an number for menstruators on the caravan, finding build clean bathrooms in addition to a individual house to alter were some other storey — a challenge displaced people oft face. Dr. Marni Sommer, DrPH, who has worked amongst the International Rescue Committee to regard how organizations tin privy ameliorate care menstrual hygiene inward emergency situations, spoke to displaced women in addition to girls inward Myanmar in addition to Lebanese Republic for research. Afterwards, she wrote inward The Conversation: “What nosotros constitute was that the principal difficulties women in addition to girls faced went beyond a demand for materials in addition to included a lack of privacy in addition to facilities to care their menstruation.”
Annette Lin amongst to a greater extent than 'development'-related journalism for Teen Vogue!

Beyond the Myth of the War Photographer
The psychiatrist Anthony Feinstein explores this complexity inward his book, “Shooting War” (Glitterati Editions). Starting amongst a single, smasher icon from each photographer, Dr. Feinstein profiles xviii conflict photographers, including Don McCullin, Tim Hetherington in addition to Corinne Dufka, in addition to examines their motivations, traumas, and, most important, their resilience.
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So why exercise photographers gamble beingness beaten, jailed, tortured, held for ransom, in addition to fifty-fifty maimed or killed? And how exercise they cope? By Dr. Feinstein’s reckoning, they are both driven in addition to bolstered yesteryear their convictions in addition to principles. These deed equally a form of emotional armor in addition to a root of resilience.
Finbarr O’Reilly reviews Anthony Feinstein's mass for the New York Times.

My twelvemonth of reading African women, yesteryear Gary Younge
Faced amongst an array of choices in addition to express time, when it comes to literature, there’s a business office of me that I’m non especially proud of that chooses non to brand the effort, fifty-fifty when in that location is piffling to no translation necessary. Somewhere deep inward my subconscious I must convey decided that books yesteryear African women would hold upward harder than those yesteryear some other demographics. They weren’t. On some grade I must convey had reading African women downwardly equally self-improving simply non necessarily enjoyable, when inward fact it was by in addition to large the latter in addition to oft both.
Gary Younge for the Guardian amongst an splendid listing of books & thoughtful reflections!

Our digital lives
Doctors are bespeak Silicon Valley engineers to pass to a greater extent than fourth dimension inward the infirmary earlier edifice apps
Brandon Ballinger, a quondam Google engineer, spent months working amongst doctors, in addition to fifty-fifty watched a oculus physical care for at the University of California, San Francisco, earlier starting his company, Cardiogram, which looks for signs of mutual medical atmospheric condition inward information generated yesteryear consumer wearables. That sense gave him a sense of how to gain the blessing in addition to trust of physicians when Cardiogram embarked on studies of its own.
"Brandon volunteered amongst us at close full-time for a year, sat inward on enquiry meetings in addition to helped us inward render amongst information scientific discipline projects," said Greg Marcus, a cardiologist at UCSF. "Frequently entrepreneurs without clinical expertise, without adequate consultation powerfulness hold upward misled inward thinking their flashy tech yesteryear itself is sufficient, without thinking close how it volition genuinely assist us. I'm a strong advocate for entrepreneurs reaching out, in addition to I mean value many physicians would desire to help."
Christina Farr for CNBC. Sounds similar a peachy thought for ICT4D in addition to much of evolution when it comes to novel tools, apps etc...

Big Business Has a New Scam: The ‘Purpose Paradigm’
These polls in addition to surveys close millennial anti-capitalist angst are the foundation of the corporate-purpose zeitgeist, which seeks to win the trust of the millennial in addition to channel her radical energies along marketplace friendly lines.
Contrary to its purported aim, the indicate of role isn’t to drive change. It’s to brand certain whatever alter stays inside the tightly leap comfort zone of the world’s most powerful executives.
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Neither Unilever in addition to Polman weighed inward on the proposed treaty; Unilever did non respond 4 e-mails inviting the companionship to part its views. But the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), which Polman chairs, has actively lobbied against the treaty. Why? Because the role of the treaty is to plough unenforceable, voluntary self-regulatory initiatives of corporations into legally binding obligations.
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A fast-growing torso of reports, analyses, in addition to research, including reports from Amnesty International, shows how self-regulating concern initiatives, including the palm-oil certification scheme of Unilever, brand no existent affect or worse, inhibit existent alter amongst a faux illusion of progress. “One of the systemic problems that Unilever’s ‘sustainable’ palm-oil scheme refuses to acknowledge,” says Eric Gottwald from the International Labor Rights Forum, “is that workers on plantations demand independent merchandise unions to improve their working conditions, non corporate-sponsored “certifiers.”
Maria Hengeveld for the Nation calls out corporate BS for what it is in addition to reminds us 1 time over again that concern volition non ultimately hold upward a driver for radical social change!

The rising of international nonprofit news
But when it comes to international intelligence — including close some of the defining issues of our era — nosotros haven’t seen the same surge inward quality, nonprofit journalism — yet. This, despite the fact that readers desire to a greater extent than international intelligence — in addition to may hold upward willing to pay for it.
Heba Aly for the Nieman Lab kicks off the 2019 debates around #globaldev journalism!

How nonprofit newsrooms convey featured inward a ‘comeback’ twelvemonth for investigative journalism
That form of back upward yesteryear foundations, some would argue, distorts editorial decision-making yesteryear nonprofit editors. However, without such funding of import issues of populace involvement would larn unreported. It needs to hold upward recognized that the nonprofit sector’s concern model differs from that of the commercial media.
What may seem questionable at a paper – such equally advertisers suggesting storey topics – may non hold upward hence at a nonprofit site because foundations exercise non convey a commercial incentive. Foundation funding of wide topic areas creates to a greater extent than character journalism that is goodness for an informed citizenry equally long equally the funding is transparent in addition to funders exercise non determine the actual stories or the content of the stories. That is an ethical draw that should never hold upward crossed.
Hamish Boland-Rudder talks to Bill Birnbauer for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists close his latest mass in addition to the links betwixt the U.S. of A. investigative journalism in addition to non-profit funding.

Academia
The gentrification of African studies
The gentrification of African studies has altered the social grapheme of its community in addition to generated a novel laid of problems such equally visa issues, academic hipsterism, in addition to restricted access to critical research, which risks to permanently exclude continent-based scholars, undermine their crucial contributions, in addition to eventually converts African studies into some other impotent, banal field.
Haythem Guesmi for Africa Is a Country kicks of 2019 amongst lots of nutrient for thought for us academics working on, inward in addition to amongst the global South!

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