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Hi all,

Welcome to this Friday's review!
So many great, interesting, powerful & enraging stories from & almost women which hopefully betoken the lasting impact of #AidToo!

Development news: Special department on dark women sharing their experiences inward the assist industry; the EU's military-industrial-border complex; Education, electricity & taxation is what Africa needs; Dr. drain inward Nigeria; stories of UNICEF innovation; novel sense of humour & satire inward Africa; TedX meets the refugee camp; exceptional department on volunteering/tourism/connecting.

Our digital lives: Topless protestation inward Iceland; observe & awful meetings; social alter tipping points; the identify most CVs go to die...

Academia: Landmark study on sexual harassment inward US academia; decolonization inward IR; an anthropological publishing projection implodes.

Enjoy!

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Does Malcolm Gladwell desire rural Indian women to purchase Chevys? H5N1 few reflections on DevEx World
As much equally moving away from the ‘beneficiary’ logic is a timely debate, relying uncritically on data-driven populace individual partnerships to create deep-rooted inequalities, political decisions to ignore evidence as well as to create a novel shape of empowered consumers volition to a greater extent than probable create the adjacent facebook-like scandal alongside sensitive wellness information rather than a transformation into a participatory, fair as well as sustainable future.
Development news
Clare Short is wrong. No wonder sexual abuse is rife inward the assist sector
But what makes the assist sector unique are the opportunities it presents for people who receive got had their means removed – vulnerable women, refugees, displaced people as well as others – to live exploited as well as abused. These women are overwhelmingly women of colour.
Shaista Aziz for the Guardian responds to Claire Short's commentary featured inward last week's digest.

research on TED talks as well as their role inward communicating global evolution discourses.

Africa's New Satirists Draw Political Fire
But political satire on the African continent directly is moving to the canvas, tv set as well as figurer screens, counting on the much harder-to-control social media part push that didn’t be before. In Accra, Ghana, 28-year-old satirist Bright Ackwerh uses caricatures to highlight aspects of Ghanaian life oftentimes missed inward the simplistic global narrative of the province equally a stable, fast-growing economy. Nigeria’s biggest tv set station, Channels TV, airs a satirical present called The Other News that mocks the corruption as well as pitiful governance that hobbles the country. And Soi, observers say, is helping present Kenyan social club a mirror.
Ayodeji Rotinwa for Ozy alongside an update on Africa's speedily changing political sense of humour as well as satire scene!



Can Help Hurt?
Robert Lough told the HPR that it is valuable to empathise the perspectives of people who bring these volunteers. “Across the board if you lot inquire [members of communities beingness visited past times voluntourists], ‘Would you lot similar these [unskilled] volunteers inward the community or would you lot rather they didn’t come?’ The respond is ever ‘Yes, nosotros desire them.’” The voluntourism industry, if relatively futile inward it’s primary initiatives, is non commonly some evil system inward disguise.
When voluntourists come upwards inward equally a grouping of outsiders as well as neglect to pay attending to the community’s needs as well as reactions it tin receive got devastating effects; however, the thought of a grouping of people caring plenty to go only about the Blue Planet has positive impacts. Lough says members of these communities “often verbalize almost feeling validated as well as feeling similar someone cares, which has tangible value.” These positive experiences tin also teach voluntourists on a route to making real, meaningful alter through long-term, skilled volunteering later on inward life.
Beverly Brown for the Harvard Political Review alongside a review of the volunteering/voluntourism debate. No, it's commonly non 'some evil system inward disguise', but equally nosotros are discussing issues of decolonization, gender, ability etc. nosotros demand to recall harder almost the benefits as well as how global solidarity tin live established beyond tradition 'from North to South' volunteering models.

The Next Trend In Travel Is… Don’t.
“Do nosotros desire to a greater extent than tourists? Maybe no,” said Balinese community activist Viebeke Lengkong final year. “It is a interrogation of what form of services nosotros tin really furnish for millions of tourists. Bali is inward the midpoint of a H2O crisis. Bali is drying up.”
It’s reaching a breaking point. “The final fourth dimension I went, I swore never again,” a friend late told me, horrified past times the number of people as well as amount of trash he saw. On his adjacent vacation, he visited a small, relatively unknown isle off Bali’s coast, thinking it would live quieter. It wasn’t. Tourists arrived past times the boatload on the little island’s shores.
Bali is i amid many places to experience the sick effects of majority tourism.
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As Fodor’s suggests, don’t go to places that explicitly don’t desire tourists, such equally Venice as well as the Galapagos. Don’t go to places alongside economies that are overly subject on tourism, such equally Bali as well as Aruba. Don’t go to places unless you lot receive got a connective to a community there, suggests go author Bani Amor. And don’t go to volunteer or seek life-changing experiences abroad at the expense of the exotic “other”; such opportunities be closer to home.
Alison Jane Smith for Bright Magazine alongside an indirect continuation of the travel/volunteering/engagement theme.

Our digital lives
Icelandic MP Outraged Over Topless Photo Shoot In Parliament
The slice inward question, Demoncrazy, shows topless women challenging “the besuited, middle-aged, manly somebody ikon of ability alongside which they grew up”, equally the artist’s text explains. Which makes the complaints of Centre Party MP Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson all the to a greater extent than ironic.
Paul Fontaine for the Reykjavik Grapevine on an artistic intervention to highlight perceptions of power, but also how men & institutions are supposed to hold back like-also interesting nutrient for thought for the #allmalepanel discussions.

Most meetings I receive got attended inward my life receive got been really awful
The tools for making meetings go good are incredibly simple, good known as well as rarely applied; for i reason: respect.
If nosotros respected our colleagues fourth dimension (and the people paying for it) nosotros wouldn’t schedule meetings without a utilisation or plow upwards late. If nosotros respected the views of everyone present, nosotros would ensure they all had a gamble to contribute. If nosotros respected those tasked alongside writing upwards summaries, nosotros would brand certain our comments were brusk as well as clear.
Most people would live horrified to recall they routinely present a lack of observe for their colleagues. But wasting their most precious resource — time- is the Definition of disrespect.
David Mcnair on how to a greater extent than observe for each other tin Pb to ameliorate coming together experiences.

Research Finds Tipping Point for Large-scale Social Change
According to a novel newspaper published to live published tomorrow inward Science (link is external), at that spot is a quantifiable answer: roughly 25% of people demand to bring a stand upwards earlier large-scale social alter occurs. This thought of a social tipping dot applies to standards inward the workplace, as well as whatever type of movement or initiative.
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While shifting people’s underlying beliefs tin live challenging, Centola’s results offering novel evidence that a committed minority tin alter what behaviors are seen equally socially acceptable, potentially leading to pro-social outcomes similar reduced loose energy consumption, less sexual harassment inward the workplace, as well as improved do habits. Conversely, it tin also prompt large-scale anti-social behaviors such equally meshwork trolling, meshwork bullying, as well as populace outbursts of racism.
Julie Sloane for the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania introduces Damon Centola's inquiry newspaper as well as novel volume on how social alter spreads.

Welcome to The Void, Where 99% of All Job Applications End Up
Résumés that listing proficiency inward Microsoft Office Suite, fantabulous organizational skills, as well as marrow competencies acquired during volunteer service inward a gap twelvemonth disintegrate into infinitesimally little pieces until they vanish completely as well as go i alongside the colorless mist you lot reckon floating higher upwards your heads.
Natalie Kopp for McSweeney's shares her comprehensive investigative analysis of what happens to CVs i time you lot hitting the 'send' push :) !

Academia
Sexual harassment is rife inward the sciences, finds landmark US study
Sexual harassment is pervasive throughout academic scientific discipline inward the United States, driving talented researchers out of the acre as well as harming others’ careers, finds a study from the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, as well as Medicine inward Washington DC. The analysis concludes that policies to care the occupation are ineffective because they are prepare to protect institutions, non victims — as well as that universities, funding agencies, scientific societies as well as other organizations must bring stronger action.
Alexandra Witze for Nature introduces the most comprehensive study as well as so far on sexual harassment inward US academia.

Interview – Robbie Shilliam
I would also hope that along the way you lot mightiness consider the marginalized as well as obfuscated sources of moral philosophy, theology, political economy, historical sociology, political sociology, unusual policy analysis, hermeneutics, literature as well as anthropology. I would hope that you lot would realize that the sources most valorized past times the university tend to live racialized, gendered, classed, nationalized as well as (western) Christianized. I would farther hope that you lot mightiness at some dot consider that living cognition traditions are equally theoretical equally well-worn books. And it would live fantastic if you lot could get together all your thoughts as well as arguments inward the diverse fora of IR, equally good equally inward other places.
I am suggesting all this because to canonize IR theory is to obfuscate the field’s roots inward violet direction as well as to reproduce a laid of concepts as well as narratives that are all predicated upon race, but unspeakably so. Such a canonization is thus intellectually myopic, intellectually inadequate, as well as ultimately super-boring. I don’t really stress almost the interrogation equally to whether IR is worth saving etc. because I know a lot of fantabulous early on career as well as senior scholars who frequent its fora regularly. I justice I am suggesting that our acre is at its best when approached equally an applied studies rather than equally a pretentious discipline.
Bryony Vince talks to Robbie Shilliam for E-International Relations almost decolonizing IR as well as challenging the electrical flow province of the discipline.

A Journal Implodes
While HAU’s Board of Trustees says the displace is due to the publication’s growth, electrical flow as well as onetime magazine staffers are blaming the broken free-access hope on what they depict equally failed as well as fifty-fifty abusive leadership.
Colleen Flaherty for Inside Higher Ed alongside a adept overview over the unfolding HAU scandal that amid many other things raises of import questions almost Western potency inward anthropology as well as an oftentimes toxic civilization inward academia that affects many disciplines.

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