Top Posts from 2015

Posts with the most page views in 2015: 1. International Development Essential Reading (Books) 2. Conducting Research in Ethiopia 3. Advice for Conducting Household Surveys 4. Want to Volunteer Overseas and Don’t Know Where to Start? 5. PhD Reality Check

Land’s End (2014)

Tania Murray Li, professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, published Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier in 2014. If you are interested in ideas put forward by James C. Scott, such as his Weapons of the Weak or Seeing Like a State, Li provides a number of challenges and alternative conclusions. In […]

Tags: #coercion and control #Ethnography #invisibilization #Tania Murray Li #Tarmac Bias

In Canadian Association of Food Studies Newsletter

Canadian Association for Food Studies (2015) Fall 2015 Newsletter, Issue 20, p. 10.

Blinded by Humanity (2015)

Interested in international development, NGOs or the United Nations? Martin Barber’s “Blinded by Humanity: Inside the UN’s Humanitarian Operations” (2015) provides insight on the challenges and lessons learned. On good intentions: “…if there is one message that I would pass on to young people wanting to do good in the world, it is this: be passionate, but […]

Tags: #Celebrities #Good intentions #Priorities #Self-reflection #United Nations

The Colonizer and the Colonized (1957)

Published in 1957, this book is authored by a Tunisian living under French colonial rule. Albert Memmi’s wrote as European colonization was falling. It provides broader insight into oppressor-oppressed relationships: On the system: “Racism appears then, not as an incidental detail, but as a consubstantial part of colonialism. It is the highest expression of the colonial system […]

Tags: #Albert Memmi #Colonized #Colonizer #Oppression #Power

New Publication in the Journal of International Development

Cochrane, L. and Thornton, A. (2016) Charity Rankings: Delivering Development or Dehumanizing Aid? Journal of International Development DOI: 10.1002/jid.3201 Abstract Individuals want to know which organisations to donate to, and a variety of organisations have developed ranking systems to guide them. This paper explores charity ranking, with a particular focus on the increasing role of […]

Tags: #Charity ranking #Cost effectiveness #Evaluation #Human Rights #International development