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Hi all,

This is going to hold upwards the final weekly review earlier my summertime break. Unlike previous years I volition receive got a proper recess until the 2nd one-half of August to focus on other (academic) writing projects, catching upwards on my reading listing - together with but receive got a recess from the #globaldev intelligence cycle. There volition hold upwards an official opor-garai post service at the destination of adjacent calendar week alongside reading suggestions from the archive-and mayhap fifty-fifty the strange mass review or commentary depending on what volition go on over the summer.

In the meantime: Enjoy a packed reading list-especially every bit many readers inwards Canada together with the the States volition receive got long weekends!

Development news: the challenges of reporting sexual violence inwards Nigeria; logos on assistance supplies-it's complicated; #globaldevwomen; yous wouldn't shipping wintertime article of apparel to Samoa-but some people soundless do; Australians overestimate assistance spending; the military-migrant economic scheme inwards Nepal; catamenia underwear; don't 'poorface'-on poverty tourism inwards the UK; Bill Gates wasted 600 1000000 on teaching projects inwards the US; how humanitarians acquire sucked into counterterrorism discourse; how practice nosotros persuade people to non hack their neighbors to decease alongside garden tools? Nzinga Effect reports from Africa; Nigerians inwards Hollywood.

Our digital lives: Tweets nigh hacked algorithms; trace concern BS linguistic communication & technology-free schools for the elite.

Academia: Feminism & academic mega conferences; unopen downward trace concern schools? 

Enjoy!

New from aidnography
Psychosocial Support for Humanitarian Aid Workers (book review)
As a researcher together with instructor I am e'er a chip skeptical when authors or endorsements hope a mass alongside relevance ‘for everybody inwards the industry’, but Psychological Support delivers on that front: There are parts written alongside a self-help framework inwards mind, but most importantly, every bit the subtitle suggest, it is a self-mapping book. It provides a roadmap for individuals nigh how to preclude trauma or acquire assist together with at the same fourth dimension provides a professional person framework for those who render or cope care, receive got humanitarian assistance worker household unit of measurement together with friends or receive got a inquiry or pedagogical involvement inwards models around such support.
Dunkley’s vignettes, based on extensive operate in- together with exterior the humanitarian industry, are powerful, tough stories together with the theoretical framework around psychology together with cognitive scientific discipline helps the reader non to experience overwhelmed spell at the same fourth dimension beingness reminded compassionately that psychosocial back upwards is non a uncomplicated ‘toolbox’ or ‘guideline’ that should hold upwards buried within your computer.
Development news
The adjacent fourth dimension yous recall nigh doing a chip of working degree tourism together with dressing upwards inwards 'poorface', read this
Most people inwards poverty can’t blag a dozen gratis Krispy Kreme doughnuts for having a famous face, together with neither tin they precisely intermission the challenge inwards the midpoint of the twenty-four hours to purchase some beard fossil oil together with striking the gym. Slipping into our scarred together with malnourished skins for a day, knowing total good yous are heading dorsum to your mansion at the destination of it, stuffed to the gills alongside all the freebies together with luxury that most people tin entirely dream of, is insulting together with cruel. It is zilch to a greater extent than than “poorface” – performance poverty – to entertain yourself together with others, alongside no value but your ain amusement together with barely hidden disdain.
Poorface is a term that I coined a spell back, used to announce the mockery together with minstrel performance whereby someone inwards a seat of privilege pretends to hold upwards pitiable for a day, inwards social club to “experience poverty for themselves”. You won’t. Poverty is non a 24-hour challenge. It is a world of endless nothing. It is depression, despair, darkness. It is having no calorie-free at the destination of the tunnel, similar beingness stuck downward a well, waiting to die.
Jack Monroe for the Independent. Thank yous for introducing 'poorface' to the debate-very relevant for #globaldev discussions.

The Gates Effective Teaching Initiative Fails to Improve Student Outcomes
Rand has released its evaluation of the Gates Foundation’s Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching initiative together with the results are disappointing. As the study summary describes it, “Overall, however, the initiative did non arrive at its goals for pupil achievement or graduation, especially for LIM [low income minority] students.” But inwards traditional contract-research-speak this summary genuinely under-states what they found. You receive got to slog through the 587 pages of the study together with 196 pages of the appendices to uncovering that the results didn’t precisely neglect to arrive at goals, but mostly were zero to negative across a multifariousness of outcomes.
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The key is learning from failure then that nosotros avoid repeating the same mistakes. It is pretty clear that the Gates effective teaching reform endeavor failed pretty badly. It toll a fortune. It produced pregnant political turmoil together with distracted from other, to a greater extent than promising efforts. And it appears to receive got mostly done to a greater extent than terms than goodness alongside honor to pupil achievement together with attainment outcomes.
Jay P. Greene for Education Next on how Bill Gates nearly wasted 600 1000000 dollars inwards the the States teaching sector...

A humanitarian-development nexus that works
A ‘nexus that works’ is also a scenario where humanitarian assistance is non entirely delivered, but where the benefits it brings to people are also protected together with safeguarded. Decisions inwards relation to the demeanour of hostilities together with the honor for IHL are an essential (and then far missing) slice of the humanitarian-development ‘nexus’. These decisions tin create or minimize humanitarian needs, together with enable or hamper the continuity together with integrity of essential populace services together with systems, including those beingness supported through humanitarian action. This comes alongside immediate together with long term consequences for both people together with country. States (and donors) must, inwards the root place, utilization their influence already during conflict—not precisely afterwards—to avoid causing humanitarian emergencies together with to bound evolution setbacks.
Filipa Schmitz Guinote for ICRC Humanitarian Law & Policy reviews the 'nexus' fence together with proposes a vision of what a nexus could await similar for today's humanitarian assistance delivery.

NEW: The Politics of Health inwards Counterterrorism Operations
The usual complicity of the unusual backers of the warring parties must hold upwards seen for what it is: the most powerful receive got an involvement inwards preserving the infinite to battle whomever they consider terrorists. From Eastern Aleppo to Mosul, Raqqa together with straightaway Eastern Ghouta, the various armies together with their backers desire to go on the trump carte of fighting terrorism every bit the ultimate justification for whatsoever atrocities committed against trapped populations. The query for wellness attention providers is whether the notion of an impartial infirmary tin jibe within an surroundings where the “conventional ties betwixt state of war together with geography receive got come upwards undone.” Instead of conflicts beingness delineated yesteryear territorial control, in that location is straightaway a greyness zone within which hospitals tin come upwards nether assail for treating patients from a designated enemy that tin comprise entire communities. The “war on terror” narrative is used to justify the elimination of a population’s agency of survival, alongside the ultimate goal of reasserting the monopoly of the province over the provision of social services every bit a source of legitimacy. The role of NGOs is entrenched inwards the province edifice logic. Therefore, when they operate impartially, they are considered a hostile component of the battlespace.
Jonathan Whittall for MSF Analysis alongside a sobering analysis of how the 'counterterrorism' discourse is undermining the foundations of humanitarian assistance.

Technological solutions for socio-political problems: revisiting an opened upwards humanitarian fence yesteryear Rodrigo Mena
Ongoing inquiry I’m carrying out every bit Visiting Scholar of the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan Research together with Evaluation Unit (AREU) on the (political) utilization together with the introduction of data-collection applied scientific discipline inwards Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan seeks to map this technology, also reflecting on who uses it, who tin acquire access to the collected information, together with how together with for which purposes it is used. The inquiry importantly also asks: does applied scientific discipline genuinely fulfil the promises it carries?
Rodrigo Mena for ISS Blog on Global Development together with Social Justice alongside a goodness overview over the ongoing fence on technological solutionism inwards the humanitarian sector.

Pray For Peace
I’ve [EXPLETIVE DELETED] had it with, [EXPLETIVE DELETED] “pray for peace.”
But those thoughts chop-chop give way to extreme jadedness alongside the assistance system. (Not cynicism, jadedness. The departure is important.) I’m jaded because I already know how this is going to go. Over the adjacent pair of years, the assistance organization is going to pour untold resources—cash, human hours, travel, workshops…—into “innovative peace-building solutions,” or variations on that theme. Books volition hold upwards written. Experts volition sit down on panels. Working groups volition hold upwards formed. Jargon volition hold upwards created. Niche/boutique NGOs together with INGOs volition come upwards into existence. None of which/whom volition practice much to a greater extent than than add together complexity together with mayhap some to a greater extent than specialized jargon around a fundamental basic question:
How practice nosotros persuade people to non hack their neighbors to decease alongside garden tools?
J. every bit e'er delivers the realness from 'the field'.

How Not to Write About African Women together with Development
I covered international evolution at The Guardian, together with in that location was root a query around access. So the people who were presenting themselves every bit experts inwards the component of the world where I grew upwards – I was born inwards Republic of Cameroon together with receive got lived together with traveled around a lot of sub-Saharan Africa – had belike either been on a brusque fellowship, or had written a thesis, were academics who attention deeply nigh it, or were NGOs together with policymakers who were based exterior [Africa]. Press officers were getting inwards affect alongside me together with saying, “Our caput of so-and-so inwards London, inwards Oxford, inwards Berlin tin speak to these issues.” They never idea to say, “We receive got someone on the basis who tin speak to these issues.”
Megan Clement for NewsDeeply talks to Eliza Anyangwe nigh her reporting platform Nzinga Effect.

How Nigerian-Americans Are Changing the Face of Hollywood
Films similar Black Panther together with Moonlight aren’t the entirely drivers of that shift. The ascent of Nollywood — Nigeria’s cinema manufacture that produces the most movies inwards the world — has also helped African narratives seep into Western entertainment, Igbokwe says. She’s spotting to a greater extent than Nollywood movies on Netflix straightaway than previously.
The operate done behind the scenes is precisely every bit critical for creating opportunity. “The writing rooms receive got to hold upwards increasingly diverse,” says Adegoke, who’s starting to write some of his ain scripts.
This meticulous planning together with operate for the futurity isn’t surprising for the Nigerian diaspora, including inwards America. “There’s a corking amount of preparation together with preparation nosotros pose inwards whatever profession we’re trying to acquire into,” says Igbokwe. That strategy has taken Nigerian-Americans to rare success inwards fields ranging from medicine to entrepreneurship. It could hold upwards Hollywood’s plough next.
Molly Fosco for Ozy on how the Nigerian diaspora is shaping global film-making together with Hollywood.

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Academia
Feminist labour at the ISA: White manels, the politics of citation together with mundane productions of disciplinary sexism together with racism
We showed up. We engaged. We explained. We were met alongside hostility yesteryear some panelists. We clarified. We walked out. And nosotros reflected. This is nigh to a greater extent than than the optics of a white, virile soul panel, it is nigh the politics of it. It is genuinely nigh to a greater extent than than all-male panels. It is component of a broader conversation on decolonizing the curriculum. It is nigh addressing the hostile surroundings academia represents for many of us, highlighted inwards the stories told at the initiative ISA pressing politics panel on #metoo. It is nigh reclaiming our discipline. When volition ISA catch-up?
Linda Åhäll, Sam Cook, Roberta Guerrina, Toni Haastrup, Cristina Masters, Laura Mills, Saara Särmä & Katharine A. M. Wright for the Disorder of Things. My brusque response to this long reflective slice is that mega conferences similar ISA are unlikely to deliver substantial changes, because the model of global mega conferences is then inherently flawed that 'more women' or 'more non-white people' volition non 'fix' it.


Shut downward trace concern schools? Two professors debate
Business schools don’t learn nigh co-operatives, mutuals, local money, community shares or social enterprise. They don’t cry transition towns, intentional communities, recuperated factories, industrial plant councils or the social economy. Ideas nigh degrowth, the beauty of small, worker determination making together with the circular economic scheme are absent. It’s every bit if in that location is no alternative. And because of all this, nosotros should recognise that their fourth dimension has come.
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While I handgrip alongside some of Martin’s criticisms, the response is non to unopen trace concern schools but for trace concern schoolhouse deans together with academy administration to engage inwards a existent dialogue nigh the form of trace concern schools the world needs. This requires an overhaul of both trace concern schoolhouse curricula together with academy recruitment policies.
Martin Parker together with Ken Starkey beak over at The Conversation. Don't worry, every bit long every bit international students desire to fees for them, trace concern schools volition non become anywhere...

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