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Development Nutshell: audio round-up (11 mins) of FP2P posts, w/b 1 June

June 6, 2020
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Thinking and working politically with technology: State of the art meets art of the state

June 5, 2020
Guest post by Gopa Thampi and Nicola Nixon of The Asia Foundation Why is the much-heralded promise of the data revolution not accelerating development in the way we expected? Why is the incredibly rapid rise of new data sources and methods of analysis paradoxically out of sync with its broader social impacts? No easy answers, but some of the reasons,
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How can Covid-19 be the catalyst to decolonise development research?

June 4, 2020
Guest post by Melanie Pinet and Carmen Leon-Himmelstine of the ODI Covid-19 is an unprecedented moment, halting life as we know it. For the global development community, the effects have been profound. Several NGOs have had to scale back or completely stop their operations overseas, while local actors and civil society are rapidly organising to respond to the crisis through their own
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Beyond the Western Gaze: How should we talk about Covid and Africa?

June 3, 2020
This brilliant post by George Kibala Bauer was first published on the Africa is a Country blog We all know the feeling—we read an article by a Western pundit, or listen to a broad-brushing intervention on everything that is wrong with Africa, and we feel the need to put the Westerner and their underlying worldview in their place. We have
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Power in the Pandemic: food, farming and coronavirus in the Philippines

June 2, 2020
Throughout the upcoming weeks and months, Power Shifts is partnering with the Oxfam in Depth podcast to share the experiences of people living through the Coronavirus outbreak in our new Power in the Pandemic podcast. We’ll be hearing from people across the world as they tell us how COVID-19 is affecting their lives and how their communities are organizing to tackle the effects of the crisis. 
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Links I Liked

June 1, 2020
Sorry to start with a downer, but things in my country are looking really bad right now. The UK has suffered the second-highest rate of deaths from thecoronavirus pandemic after Spain, according to excess mortality figures, say the FT number crunchers. 60,000 in total. Not a great leveller: UK Covid deaths v housing overcrowding, by Nathaniel Barker using official stats
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Development Nutshell: round-up of FP2P posts, w/b 25th May

May 30, 2020
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Take the FP2P Coronaquiz!

May 29, 2020
So you think you know about Covid and Development? Prove it! It’s Friday, and in an effort to stop week and weekend all blurring into one amorphous blob, let’s take a break from heavy duty analysis. Here’s a Coronavirus quiz (with a development-y angle, obvs) to test if you’ve been paying attention to the news – scroll down for the
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What are the weak signals of Covid-driven transformation, and will we hear them?

May 28, 2020
The Covid pandemic is bound to be a game-changing critical juncture for some issues in some places – maybe in all places, who knows. But what kind of transformations and how soon will we know? The problem with detecting these kinds of ‘weak signals’ is that our heads and organizations are already full of noise – especially the noise of
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Can we understand COVID-19 fast enough – and well enough – to make a difference?

May 27, 2020
Guest post by Lavinia Tyrrel, Linda Kelly, Chris Roche and Elisabeth Jackson In Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez plays on the themes of love and passion, comparing them to a plague like cholera. Referring to the two lovers in the story he notes “…if they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us
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Links I Liked (mainly Covid, natch)

May 26, 2020
ICYMI, put this wonderful post by Robert Chambers up yesterday afternoon. Humour, Postcolonial Irony and Covid-19 in Africa, by David Mwambari and Laura S Martin Serious about shifting norms as a pathway to change? Why Sesame Street Was a Revolutionary Force for Children’s Television ht Ranil Dissayanake What if some African governments are doing a better job than our own
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Reflections on an involuntary immersion, by Robert Chambers

May 25, 2020
Just read this extraordinary piece by one of my heroes, Robert Chambers, and wanted to share it. Fans and admirers all over the world will be wishing you a speedy recovery, Robert. I have just returned home after a health-related immersion of over 10 weeks as a patient and participant-observer in an NHS hospital and then in a private sector
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