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 …
So far in our decolonization journey here on Perplexed Periphery, I have talk about the defining the need for a decolonization of aid practices and the digital marketing of voluntourism and the consequences on local communities. To add to our previous discussions, I’d like to suggest a reflection on eColonialism …
In my first blog post, I hinted at the potential ICT has to invite for more individual and community-based participation and the possibility for empowerment. In my second post, I suggested that participatory action can accumulate and multiply through ICT, turning into a movement for social change. Through my last …
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can be listened to in the video below: Allow me to hone into the three issues I proposed in my previous post: those of outdated ways of doing aid, reforming/dismantling existing power structures, and the limits to techno-optimism.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 conversation is not new. And it is not news that the origin of the Development sector is entangled to Eurocentric ideals of the future. These ideals are not only shaping Development practice, theory but also the public’s expectation and knowledge of what is out there. Just like that, even …
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 …
If there is one thing one might have a hard time avoiding nowadays is digital and online culture. While it was possible to slip through the net some decades ago, today they are integral part of international development communication practices and people’s daily life. Digital communication has a central role …
