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Hi all,

Welcome to 1 of the in conclusion link reviews of 2017!

It's an interesting mix this calendar week featuring world lectures, (visual) communication of evolution & #MeToo reflections inwards academia.

Development news: Rise inwards global arms sales; private companies spying on activists; Jeremy Corbyn speaks at the United Nations on global governance; UNHCR's Melissa Fleming speaks close abode & refugees; how to 'empower women'? How to engage cynical audiences inwards #globaldev? How to ensure ethical photography? How to write meliorate close social issues; novel podcast serial from India.

Publications: Local assist workers & digital marginalization; doing evolution differently.

Academia: #MeToo; what is the purpose of societies & associations?

Enjoy!

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Third World Quarterly & the instance for colonialism debate
This is a curated together with regularly updated overview over the events that followed after the publication of Bruce Gilley's article The Case for Colonialism inwards the periodical Third World Quarterly.
I receive got maintained a Storify close this topic since September 2017, but since Storify announced its cease of life for May 2018 I recreated the developments inwards this weblog post.
Development news
Global arms industry: First ascent inwards arms sales since 2010, says SIPRI
Sales of arms together with military machine services past times the world’s largest arms-producing together with military machine services companies—the SIPRI Top 100—totalled $374.8 billion inwards 2016, according to novel international arms manufacture information released today past times the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
The total for the SIPRI Top 100 inwards 2016 is 1.9 per cent higher compared with 2015 together with represents an growth of 38 per cent since 2002 (when SIPRI began reporting corporate arms sales). This is the starting fourth dimension yr of growth inwards SIPRI Top 100 arms sales after 5 consecutive years of decline.
SIPRI's latest annual report-always a powerful reminder when cynical Daily Mail readers (see below) complain close 'wasting taxpayers money' on a workshop inwards Africa...

Surveillance firms spied on crusade groups for large companies, leak shows
The leaked documents suggest the utilisation of secretive corporate security firms to assemble intelligence close political campaigners has been widespread. However, constabulary chiefs receive got inwards the past times raised a “massive concern” that the activities of the corporate firms are barely regulated together with completely uncontrolled.
The constabulary receive got claimed that commercial firms receive got had to a greater extent than spies embedded inwards political groups than in that place were undercover constabulary officers.
The revelations are based on hundreds of pages of leaked documents from 2 corporate intelligence firms, seen past times the Guardian together with the Bureau for Investigative Journalism, that disclose the inner workings of a usually subterranean manufacture over several years inwards the 2000s.
The cache shows how 1 of the firms, C2i International, used 2 infiltrators to acquire advance alert of demonstrations that were beingness mounted against firms together with to feed this information to those firms.
Rob Evans & Meirion Jones for the Guardian with an of import reminder close 'tech for bad', corporate powerfulness together with the privatization of security.

Jeremy Corbyn vocalization communication at the United Nations’ Geneva headquarters
We demand to redouble our efforts to create a global rules based scheme that applies to all together with plant for the many, non the few.
No to a greater extent than bomb starting fourth dimension together with recall together with speak later.
No to a greater extent than double standards inwards unusual policy.
No to a greater extent than scapegoating of global institutions for the sake of scoring political points at home.
Instead: solidarity, calm leadership together with cooperation. Together nosotros can:
Build a novel social together with economical scheme with human rights together with jurist at its core.
Deliver climate jurist together with a meliorate way to alive together on this planet.
Recognise the humanity of refugees together with offering them a identify of safety.
Work for peace, security together with understanding.
The survival of our mutual humanity requires goose egg less.
We demand to recognise together with pay tribute to human rights defenders the footing over, putting their lives on the line for others - our vocalization must live on their voice.
When did those political leaders currently inwards powerfulness stopped delivering speeches similar to Jeremy Corbyn's? I am aware that is a broad vocalization communication at the United Nations past times an opposition politician, together with yet it's swell to read those sentences together with live on reminded of how most of conservative politicians receive got genuinely lost whatever vision for state, guild together with people.

The Search for Home inwards Times of War together with Peace
But today, solely a little minority of refugees alive inwards camps. The classic epitome of endless rows of white tents applies to solely 10 per cent of them. Most alive inwards towns together with cities, patch many to a greater extent than alive inwards rural environments. Some alive inwards settlements; others inwards dorsum streets. Some receive got identity documents together with tin work, locomote to school, come across a doctor; others receive got to duck together with dive, non permitted a task or an apprenticeship, a identify inwards the classroom — barred from precisely the variety of endeavour that would give them a stair out of self-sufficiency together with a way to carve out something to a greater extent than similar a home, even then temporary it mightiness be, or they mightiness desire it to be.
Melissa Fleming for UNHCR with a transcript of a keynote lecture she delivered recently. H5N1 swell illustration of how the United Nations tin engage with Earth together with her vocalization communication provides fantabulous nutrient for thought together with give-and-take inwards the classroom, for example.

Hairdressing, sewing, cooking – is this genuinely how we're going to empower women?
Many women’s empowerment projects the footing over focus on hairdressing, tailoring or cooking. This is inwards component division because the barrier to entry is low, then these programmes are accessible to women who may non receive got had much formal education, together with inwards component division due to constraints on women – most of these jobs tin live on done inwards female-only environments or at home. There are dissimilar trends inwards dissimilar parts of the world, but most conform to this pattern: pilus together with beauty preparation inwards the Middle East, producing local handicrafts inwards Latin America together with due south Asia, giving women chickens to tend inwards rural Bharat together with Africa.
Undoubtedly, for some women, only learning a novel science tin live on hugely valuable together with confidence-boosting. But in that place is footling difficult prove that these schemes genuinely assist women to earn a living, or empower them inwards whatever meaningful sense.
“Are they empowering women? Not really,” says Mayssoun Sukarieh, lecturer inwards Middle Eastern studies at King’s College London. “First of all, many of these projects reproduce sex relations, then it’s non close empowering women inwards the feel of making them equal. Secondly, this tin piece of work for a bit, but how much coin is going to live on generated past times these tiny projects? Particularly when, at the same time, huge corporations are doing the same products at a real depression price.”
Samira Shackle for the Guardian on the request for projects that tin 'empower women' together with that may cease upward producing capitalist agents on the bottom rung of the consumerist ladder...

It's worth reading the whole thread, including several responses from Save The Children.


Communicating evolution inwards a post-factual world: How to win against the Daily Mail

To regain world trust, the assist sector needs Vox-style explainers together with an promotion watchdog
To this end, I suggest a structural solution to this structural problem: the establishment of an international assist sector promotion regulatory agency.
This volition live on an independent trunk that includes members of the Global North together with South, together with with representatives from key assist together with media actors, together with that sets out an agreed criteria for all NGO advertisements together with marketing campaigns. The finish volition live on to finally eliminate the negative – together with harmful – portrayal of affected populations, together with to enforce a policy of positive imagery alongside assist organisations.
Arbie Baguios shares his ideas on how the assist manufacture tin lift positive world engagement.

A Call for Ethical Standards inwards Nonprofit Humanitarian Photography
Now, I receive got a mental checklist to ensure I’m collaborating inwards ethical storytelling with my clients. I confirm that the people I’m beingness sent to photograph or cinema are beneficiaries of the organization. If the organisation doesn’t receive got a written disputation of values or a code of conduct, I inquire them close it.
I’m looking for a commitment to treating people with dignity, clear policies on informed consent for photos together with videos, together with null tolerance for exploitation together with abuse, particularly when it comes to children together with people living with HIV together with AIDS, which soundless send stigma inwards many parts of the world.
Laura Elizabeth Pohl for Re-Picture on how the assist manufacture needs to hash out ethical issues around the visualizations around their work.

News media offers consistently warped portrayals of dark families, study finds
The study concluded both ideologically driven intelligence sources every bit good every bit traditional newspapers together with broadcasts furthered faux narratives close dark families, helping to shape world assumptions that they are “uniquely together with irrevocably pathological together with undeserving,” Dixon said.
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The study makes several recommendations for the intelligence industry, including setting stronger standards for sourcing information together with experts, providing greater social together with historical context, together with including people of color inwards setting editorial standards.
Tracy January for Washington Post presents an interesting novel study that should live on of relevance for the assist manufacture together with how they communicate.

10 Things I Hate About Social Issues Journalism
Invoking your personal expertise tin oft give your floor to a greater extent than credibility. But in that place are limits to self-declared expertise, exemplified past times this — real, I promise — pitch:
“My brusque stint working on a Kibbutz a few years prior gave me the expertise to locomote from Brooklyn, New York, to a little hamlet inwards [insert developing country] to [help run an agriculture project].”
How does a self-described “short stint” brand you lot an skillful on a topic every bit vast every bit agriculture? This passage besides has a hint of the dreaded white savior industrial complex that plagues a lot of journalism close marginalized communities of color.
Sarika Bansal for Bright Magazine on how to locomote a meliorate author together with storyteller.

In The Field
‘In The Field’ is a demo that attempts to capture India’s evolution story, every bit it happens, through a feature-style podcast that combines interviews, commentary, together with debate.
An interesting podcast projection from Bharat I volition definitely explore further!


Publications
Local assist workers inwards the digital humanitarian project: betwixt “second shape citizens” together with “entrepreneurial survivors”
Moving beyond the green figure of the cosmopolitan together with adventure-seeking Western humanitarian acting on distant suffering, this paper draws attending to local assist workers’ aspirations for personal together with professional person mobility every bit they seize novel opportunities opened upward past times the digital humanitarian agenda. It outlines how the digital humanitarian project’s ambition to facilitate the inclusion of disaster-affected communities is fundamentally undermined past times labor arrangements that doubly marginalize local assist workers.
Jonathan Ong & Pamela Combinido with a novel opened upward access article inwards Central Asian Studies.

How are INGOs Doing Development Differently? 5 of them receive got just taken a look.
The contributions that INGOs tin brand to the DDD movement stalk from their positioning inside the evolution sector. Their programmatic experiences together with in-house expertise differ from those of academics, recall tanks, donor agencies, contractors, together with national or local NGOs together with community organizations. INGOs’ contributions to the conversation autumn into 3 major themes: Localizing powerfulness together with ownership inwards DDD practice, Funding together with accountability for adaptation, Institutionalizing DDD across large agencies
Duncan Green for FP2P summarizes Dave Algoso's recent study on DDD.

Academia

Statistics, nosotros receive got a problem.
We demand to start belongings prominent individuals accountable for how their inappropriate conduct negatively impacts the careers of their junior colleagues. I’m maxim this publicly because whenever I receive got shared these stories privately with my colleagues, both men together with women, they are appalled. It is fourth dimension for us to live on publicly together with openly appalled, non just attempting to tactfully deflect inappropriate advances together with privately alert other women. We demand to withdraw the powerfulness of the “open secret” that these people utilisation to accept wages of their respected positions inwards our field. We know who these people are, together with nosotros should halt tolerating this civilisation of harassment, or else nosotros locomote complicit inwards it.
Kristian Lum shares some of her #MeToo experiences from academic statistic conferences.

What role do learned societies serve inwards a digital age?
It is non then much that social media decentralises communicative capacity, dispersing it throughout the discipline, every bit much every bit it allows the proliferation of other actors who tin perform these internal together with external functions. There are novel intermediaries who tin connect the bailiwick internally together with stand upward for it externally. This raises the obvious question: what is the signal of the learned guild inwards an historic catamenia of social media? Is it to perform the internal together with external communications role but to do it to a greater extent than effectively than the novel intermediaries? Is it to leverage this role towards for sure purposes (e.g. establishing ethics guidelines) which other actors lack the normative legitimacy to pursue? Is it only every bit a scholarly publisher together with a conference organiser? Or do they demand to uncovering a novel purpose inwards monastic enjoin to avoid a ho-hum slide into irrelevance?
Mark Carrigan asks of import questions close the futurity of large disciplinary associations together with societies whose main task it seems to organize large-scale conferences inwards global chain hotel complexes together with accuse a lot of coin for this privilege...

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