Category: Joel
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The People’s Conference for Palestine in Copenhagen: organising and repression in Europe
Hey Reader, I hope things are well in your world right now. I’ve been looking forward to writing up this post following my attendance at the People’s Conference for Palestine, organised by the IF (International Forum) Palestine, which took place across two days on December 7th and 8th earlier this month. The conference featured talks,…
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Digital Activism: doing good or looking good?
And there won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas time…. Hi there dear reader, hope you are doing well in these rather confusing and troubling times. In this post I want to delve a little deeper into the question of digital activism and whether it’s a case of doing good or just looking good, which…
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Interviewing as a research tool: a comparative exploration
Introduction In order to develop my skills as an interviewer, and researcher more broadly, I conducted two interviews with people in completely different fields, one was over Zoom and the other was in Person. The first interview took place in Copenhagen in early November with a Project Manager for Development at RARE, a US based…
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Digital Acivism and Palestine: A view from Copenhagen
Hey I’m Joel – I’ve been living in Copenhagen for the last 5 years working for a Danish tech company, but studying part-time for the MA in ComDev since 2023. I have a keen interest in the relationship between protest, digital activism and grassroots movements. I have previously worked as a languages teacher at a…
