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can be listened to in the video below: Allow me to hone into the three issues I proposed in my previous post: those of outdated ways of doing aid, reforming/dismantling existing power structures, and the limits to techno-optimism.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 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 …
After 8 years of war, Yemen remains one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. More than 4 million people have been driven from their homes and up to 24 million are in acute need of humanitarian assistance. Since the outbreak of war in March 2015, the conditions in …
