Links I Liked

May 9, 2022
US and UK politics summed up in a couple of pics Happy 90th birthday Robert Chambers – what a hero. Here are some tributes to his (ongoing) work. I want to be like him when I grow up….. A Kenyan citizen phones up the IMF switchboard and asks to cancel Kenya’s loan. V funny, and have to admire the IMF
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Links I Liked

May 3, 2022
Loved this presentation at our Nairobi workshop by Patrick Gathara on use of satire in social change. 5 Strategies for Hitting a Writing Deadline. Best one is ‘Figure out when you’re most productive.’ Trouble is my morning window seems to be shrinking…. Proud of Oxfam America’s effort to get Big Pharma shareholders to vote for vaccine equity, with WHO Director-General
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Development Nutshell: audio round-up (15m) of FP2P posts, w/b 25th April

April 30, 2022
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Invisible women: a story and podcast of Emergent Agency

April 28, 2022
Guest Post by Filippo Artuso and Barbara van Paassen, introducing a new episode on the People v Inequality podcast While many of us were living through the pandemic on interminable Zoom calls or watching Netflix, activists and changemakers around the world were finding new and innovative ways to respond to the pandemic. The curiosity to learn how these responses were
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Links I Liked

April 25, 2022
The academic roller coaster. ht Jay van Bavel Two interesting posts on the slow demise of personal blogging. Tobias Denskus on Are personal #globaldev blogs a thing of the past? Mark Carrigan on ‘Are personal academic blogs a thing of the past? I’m starting to feel like the last of the Mohicans on this one…. The Ukraine: ‘The most obvious
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Development Nutshell: round-up (18m) of FP2P posts, w/b 18th April

April 23, 2022
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Development Nutshell: audio round-up (18m) of FP2P posts, w/b 11th April

April 16, 2022
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Links I Liked

April 11, 2022
‘When you enter this library you are a scientist, you are an explorer, you are a reader, you are important, you are loved’. Heart warming letter to Texas school librarian Amy Milstead. Click and read it all – it’s worth it Two massacres, continents apart: ‘in the central Malian town of Moura mercenaries from the Kremlin-linked Wagner Group are accused
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Development Nutshell: round-up (23m) of FP2P posts, w/b 4th April

April 9, 2022
Links I Liked Poo, Periods and Priorities: what does research tell us about the different views of practitioners, populations and academics about WASH? Second (and Third) Thoughts on Adaptive Management and Thinking and Working Politically What does Civil Society think of Adaptive Management? Not that much, it turns out. 
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Links I Liked

April 4, 2022
The true size of Africa aka don’t let Mercator fool you ht Carlos Lopes An Ethiopian truce, a Taliban U-turn, and a month of war in Ukraine: The Cheat Sheet: great round-up of a lot of crises that aren’t making the news, plus those that are Policy citation databases offer new ways to understand the impact of social sciences research.
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Development Nutshell: round-up (20m) of FP2P posts, w/b 28th March

April 2, 2022
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Putin and the Psychology of Grievance

March 28, 2022
Fascinating piece by Alex Evans on the Larger Us blog. Here it is in full How has the interaction between psychology and politics helped to manufacture Russian support for Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine? And is there anything anyone can do about it? Here at Larger Us, we think a lot about them-and-us dynamics – dynamics which Putin appears to have had
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