Kenyans' land has been grabbed by its elites before. Now its their data. Kenyans becoming data serfs in the tech-fascist playbook of Silicon valley overlords. Not accidentally but because of concrete government decisions. Redefine comparadoes. @jiahuilee.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

+++Stellenausschreibung+++ Am IfS sind im Rahmen des DFG-geförderten Projekts »Die postnazistische Gesellschaft« voraussichtlich ab dem 1. April 2026 zwei Stellen als Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in (m/w/d) (75% der vollen Wochenarbeitszeit) befristet für die Dauer von drei Jahren zu besetzen.

New call for papers: What is the future for global development? We are pleased to announce that GDI is hosting a conference in April 2026, and we are now accepting abstracts for papers and posters. Please see the full Call for Papers for more info as well as the form to submit: bit.ly/4omBJ6o

Call for abstacts, Seed Panel: "Trump and the Global Disruption of Development Policy" Conv. by @andypsumner.bsky.social (@kings-sga.bsky.social & @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social (@idos-research.bsky.social) www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

The right to health has spread worldwide, and so has neoliberalism. Colombian governments and civil society struggle with this tension; health workers and vulnerable patients carry the burden. More here, open access @jeppjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

💊 Neoliberalism meets human rights liberalism: In Colombia, @hanrieder.bsky.social shows how judicial mobilisation for the right to health failed to deliver and instead created a politics of exhaustion and exploitation 👇 ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our Special Section on the SDGs at 10 is now out in the current Issue of @globalpolicy.bsky.social. You can access all contributions here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17585899...

Important, interesting study.

We were thinking about the term ethics washing when finalising our publication about 'fair' health worker poaching. Here we reflect on it and summarize the work.

Rest in peace, Brian Wilson.

🚨Post-doctoral researcher opportunity @gvagrad.bsky.social with the FamilEA project For a candidate in political science or related disciplines, interested in family-related public policy in Kenya and Uganda More information about this exciting opening tinyurl.com/297jxwnc Deadline: 20 March

"One nurse who contacted the union said she had been ordered to pay £25,000 to leave her job – the highest the RCN says it has ever seen." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

USAID and extractivist development, continuity and change: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/how...

For those who like me sometimes like novels: 'la perra' ('the bitch') by Pilar Quintana: glad I found and read it. Finished it a couple of weeks ago and realise: will leave a lasting impression. It is brilliant.

Out now in RIPE: The ‘ethical recruitment’ of international nurses: Germany’s liberal health worker extractivism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Pleased to share new article with the excellent Leon Janauschek on practice of 'ethically' poaching nurses abroad. Fair migration regime for health workers: liberal extractivism. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @lseid.bsky.social @lseglobalhealth.bsky.social

A large group of civil society and research orgs (incl the WiKo Berlin) have written a statement on the unprecedented political pressure on the FU Berlin to cancel the public lecture of Francesca Albanese and Prof. Eyal Weizman. www.freitag.de/autoren/der-... (scroll down for English version)

📢 APPLY NOW! The Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA) seeks to appoint an Associate Professor in Global Area Studies to contribute to the MPhil in Global and Area Studies 📆:Closes: Noon GMT, Mon 3 March ow.ly/poHj50UKYk5

Book Launch! Join us for the discussion with @stephofmann.bsky.social, @ninahall.bsky.social, @akentikelenis.bsky.social and @ckreudersonnen.bsky.social online or in Florence on the 21 February for the launch of my book "Global Governance on the Ground". Register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

The opposite of health sovereignty… Milei declared its intention to leave the WHO due to ‘profound differences’ in health management, and to uphold national sovereignty in health matters. The withdrawal becomes effective one year after formal notification. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Recent paper on the laboriousness of community health in racial capitalism (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣 New research published by our very own @hanrieder.bsky.social in New Political Economy this week: "Repair work in raced welfare capitalism: community health workers in the United States" 📃 Read it here: bit.ly/40GPXV2 @lseid.bsky.social

Reposting from @tilojung.bsky.social Wichtigste PK der Woche: Vier Experten zu dem #Haftbefehl gegen Netanjahu, Deutschlands Rolle und dem Völkerrecht youtu.be/WZHXl5R5yzo (Komplett von heute) @christinebinzel.bsky.social

"The problem with painting Trump as the harbinger of the end of an enlightened international order is that it prompts the question of what that order is really like." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Berlin friends: next Tuesday at 4pm I am presenting findings from my new book project at the Freie Universität. Join us!

Distributionally, financialisation has concentrated ownership in the hands of those with existing wealth, such as buy-to-let landlords and increasingly cash buyers and institutional investors, who increasingly dictate the terms on which others have access to housing.

🏠 How do we fix the housing crisis? Ensuring decent & secure homes for all starts with knowing how we own, invest & access housing. To launch our new housing programme, @chrismwhayes argues expanding supply is key — but the market alone will not suffice. www.common-wealth.org/publications...

Minha única crítica construtiva sobre o BlueSky, como uma comunidade: precisamos “curtir” menos e “retuitar” mais. Na ausência de um algoritmo, é assim que nos encontramos e recompensamos o bom conteúdo.

A side note on the misleading and stereotypical choice of photo by Reuters for this article. Most undocumented migrants in Spain have lived there for years, primarily come from South America and Morocco, and overstayed their visas rather than arriving by boat. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

"Die Wissenschaft gewinnt nicht, wenn man Universitäten wie Sportclubs gegeneinander in Turniere schickt... Statt teurer, künstlicher Wettbewerbe... braucht es Grundförderung in der Breite." @nnwiss.bsky.social zu #ExStra netzwerk-nachhaltige-wissenschaft.de?p=384

This looks (and sounds) exciting!

The future is renewable, not radioactive! Nuclear energy is no solution to the climate crisis and will further jeopardize our right to health. It is too dirty, too dangerous, too slow and too expensive. 👉http://ippnw.org/COP29 #COP29 #nuclearfree

Thanks to James Dunk and @ruthamorgan.bsky.social for arranging this workshop on writing planetary histories - in Canberra 12-13 November 2024. I'll be there, along with Libby Robin, Tom Griffiths and Sverker Sörlin. Call for expressions of interest: #skyhistorians #sts #histsci #histstm #envhum

Oxford is looking for an environmental geographer who researches Latin America: www.lac.ox.ac.uk/article/vaca...