Summer Interruption 2018

Hi all,

As I wrote inwards last week's link review:

Unlike previous years I volition get got a proper suspension until the 2nd one-half of August to focus on other (academic) writing projects, catching upwards on my reading listing - together with only get got a suspension from the #globaldev intelligence cycle. There volition live an official opor-garai transportation service at the halt of adjacent calendar week alongside reading suggestions from the archive-and mayhap fifty-fifty the strange mass review or commentary depending on what volition make over the summer.

In the meantime, likewise leaving yous alongside an picture of Malmö's Västra Hamnen harbor alongside a persuasion of the Öresund distich inwards the background, I am sharing a few blogging highlights alongside yous inwards instance yous experience similar browsing the archive or, if yous are a novel pupil for example, getting to know my project.

I promise yous volition also get got a peachy summertime together with human face frontwards to seeing yous 1 time again inwards August!

One of the substitution themes of my blogging has been engaging alongside the assistance manufacture together with the professionalism of assistance work(ers) - from before reflections on 'the field' to a curated bibliography on the Oxfam scandal.

In response to Duncan Green: My nine evolution trends together with their implications for tomorrow’s assistance jobs (June 2018)

Here are my nine trends together with their implications for how to larn inwards the sector together with observe meaningful engagement together with employment.

The professionalization of evolution volunteering – towards a novel global precariat? (March 2015)

I volition adapt my reflections around 2 substitution points: First, the paradox that rightly demands improve educated assistance professionals, but non necessarily links them to every bit professional person operate together with salaries.
And second, a growing ‘volunteering industry’ that commonly brings together state, civil company together with academia, but that is to a greater extent than probable to contribute to a depoliticized ‘employability’ discourse than meaningful political engagement over evolution policy together with practice.

‘The field’ is where inequality persists–a response to ‘Send them to the field!’ (July 2013)

The focus on the rural champaign also has the danger that it fits all too good alongside our social enterprise, public-private, win-win mindset where everybody tin give notice live on the winning squad together with tin give notice truly plough out to live to a greater extent than colonial than nosotros enlightened cosmopolitan citizens of Aidland would ever recollect it is. Successfully returning from a ‘field visit’ comes alongside a lot of entitlements from a ‘proper’ shower to Skype dinners alongside ‘home’ together with the guilty pleasures of Nutella, cornflakes or a few days off. It tin give notice also get got the pressure level off to non come across the expat club, expensive trip to headquarters or a conference or injustice inwards the component subdivision through the ‘field lens’ that requires critical reflection, speaking upwards or fifty-fifty planning an ‘intervention’ of sorts.

Oxfam, Republic of Haiti & the assistance industry's #MeToo moment-a curated bibliography (February-July 2018)

There are forthwith to a greater extent than than 120 resources featured inwards this bibliography!
For the fourth dimension being, my bibliography volition non live updated regularly anymore, but the July update includes novel sources that are diretly linked to the fiscal fall-out from the master scandal.
The fence has branched out inwards together with hence many dissimilar directions since the master scandal broke that I desire to proceed this thread to a greater extent than narrowly well-nigh the Oxfam scandal together with how media the assistance manufacture responded to it.

I was also delighted to host to peachy invitee posts this year:

Of lofty ideals, dual careers & long-distance maternity - invitee transportation service yesteryear Milasoa Chérel-Robson (May 2018)

Milasoa Chérel-Robson plant for UNCTAD together with her reflections on the challenges together with trade-offs of combining her international career alongside describe of piece of work solid unit of measurement duties highlight many personal insights into bigger debates inwards sex together with development.
This is a perfect long-read for the weekend afterwards Mother's Day that spans a historical trajectory from Republic of Madagascar together with the socialist aspirations of the 1970s to the limits of “leaning in” inwards Geneva together with contemporary Rwanda where Africa is celebrating a vivid economical future.

Dear Colonialism - invitee transportation service yesteryear Ami V. Shah (May 2018)

I am honored to kicking off the calendar week alongside a powerful invitee transportation service yesteryear my colleague Ami V. Shah, Assistant Professor of Global Studies & Anthropology at Pacific Lutheran University.
We get got been discussing many issues around decolonization for a patch together with I am thrilled that she shares her reflections hither on !

Another theme that has been popping upwards regularly inwards my writing together with tweeting is the infamous #allmalepanel:

What’s adjacent for #allmalepanel? (December 2016)

Maybe people exclusively part panels alongside a especially large number of men, but inwards full general I get got a gut feeling that panels appear to grow inwards dissimilar environs such as academia, policy together with other world events. So fifty-fifty if nosotros assume that these panels could live to a greater extent than diverse, that does non respond the to a greater extent than strategic question: What produce yous await from a 6, seven or 8 people panel?

Reflections on evolution blogging to a greater extent than broadly get got also been component subdivision of my writing together with research: 

The evolution blogging crisis (January 2018)

And yet, I nevertheless truly bask the liberty of running my ain modest world writing project.
My weblog is everything academic publishing is not, from stiff formatting requirements to waiting for peer reviews together with that feeling that yous are writing for someone else who may inwards the halt ain your production anyway (I role Google’s Blogger together with hence I am much to a greater extent than embedded inwards those dynamics than I should/want to be).
My weblog is also a really modest cast of resistance inside my framework of full-time academic employment: I tin give notice afford blogging together with engaging alongside earth that way. Blogging remains a peachy agency of staying tuned inwards debates together with actively engaging inwards communicating evolution which is to a greater extent than than a task I am passionate about. Blogging informs my teaching, supports my enquiry together with may ultimately exactly live some form of online diary-something that may never locomote out of mode fifty-fifty if formats together with platform shift!

Last, together with definitely non least, in that place are my book reviews:

Why I promote mass reviews (March 2015)

At the halt of the day, as alongside almost all the writing on , my reviews are driven yesteryear curiosity together with actual involvement inwards the content. I produce non review together with promote books for the sake of the writer and/or publisher, but I volition also non writer a laid upwards of reviewing guidelines together with reserve the correct to a for sure amount of randomness what gets reviewed when together with how.
Appreciating the difficult operate that colleagues get got set into their books ever benefits the wider academic community, reminding us of the importance of critical writing, independent publishers together with communicating the importance together with mightiness of books to a wider audience.