…them can run off with power.’ So ‘the first order of business for leaders aspiring to wield unchecked political power is to bend the institutions of the state to their…
Podcast: talking you through the week’s posts on From Poverty to Power
…Based Community-Driven Development – a marriage made in heaven? The Revenge of Power: A Great Book that will help you better understand Modern Politics Food and energy protests signal failures…
Some last minute Christmas book presents
…trade, still inspiring some of Oxfam’s top campaigners two centuries later. New and Old Power: at the other end of the timeline, a great analysis of the power of digital…
Where have we got to in Understanding Power as the basis for Activism? Great new review.
…on power and empowerment, and which focuses not just on power as domination, but also power as challenge to that domination. In this more unified approach, these forms of power…
Responses to ‘Are INGOs ready to give up power?’
…with a much more nuanced understanding of power…Power over, power with, power to, power within, invisible, visible, hidden powers. What is the power about – money, staff, time, decision-making? How…
Fixing the power imbalances of aid and development: A paradox
…used] a simple framework that allowed me to explore power imbalances as they exist in four interrelated types: institutional, material, structural and ideational (or discursive). Institutional power imbalances are those…
Want to Challenge the Elite? Then first Understand What Makes Them Tick
…back in 2020. From the Russian oligarchs behind Putin to the digital oligarchs in Silicon Valley, the world’s economic elites have been growing in affluence and power. The number of…
New and Old Power: A New Way to Understand and Cultivate Digitally-Mediated Activism, or Just Another Framework?
…First, we have to understand that New Power differs from Old Power along two key axes: the models they use to gather and exercise power, and the values they adhere…
What to Read on Afghanistan? Some of the best stuff I’ve read so far – please suggest more
On Monday, exasperated by the nature of the coverage of the fall of Kabul, I tweeted a request for links: ‘What to read on Afghanistan? Interested in power analysis/stakeholder mapping…
How does Gender change the way we think about Power?
…the understanding of power itself: ‘Our understandings of power may themselves be the result of men’s power over women. This is because power has been conceptualized by, and hence from…
What does ‘pure research’ on international development look like? Speed-dating at the LSE
…them from the vested interests that have come with power, he is analysing the lyrics of songs of the liberation struggle (i.e. before taking power) in terms of ethnicity, forgiveness…
How Change Happens (or doesn’t) in the Humanitarian System
…increasing their revenue and power. The rest is PR. The three alternative models are: The system as society: organized by politics and culture (shared meaning), rather than crude economic self…