How do civil society actors, pushed to live in the margins of capitalism, appropriate and use digital technologies to advance their own strategic goals? This essay intends to advance an answer to this question by exploring some of the material and geographic – therefore socioecological – dimensions of information and …
A version of this post can be listened to in the video below: Allow me to hone into the three issues I proposed in my previous post: those of outdated ways of doing aid, reforming/dismantling existing power structures, and the limits to techno-optimism. These issues have spun off from …
The time of reckoning has come The “project approach” – which relies on temporary, discrete, linear initiatives to close gaps defined by technicians and politicians – of humanitarian interventions is not future-ready. Built on the economic and technological achievements of the 1950s that brought us the Marshall Plan and the …
