The marketplace is full of products promising to benefit humanitarian causes. We ask, what are the economic and social implications of commodifying compassion?
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26 Mar 2020
Wherever there is a crisis, there are brands trying to stay relevant. Here at @CocoResearch, we're collecting good, bad and ugly of brand responses to COVID19, from marketing ploys to charitable offers. Please do keep sending the tips our way!
25 Mar 2020
If you're quick Lisa, you can buy one of these corona hoodies for $129: x.com/ScottDisick/status/123…
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28 Nov 2023
Happy and very honoured to receive the 2023 Fonnesbech PhD Prize 🥳 I look forward to continuing my research @CBDScbs, @CBScph and @diisdk with great colleagues!
28 Nov 2023
Now it is OFFICIAL that our @CocoResearch @CBDScbs PhD colleague @sofie_hen has won @CBScph top PhD Researcher Fonnesbech Prize this year! I'm 1 of her proud supervisors⭐️ w/@sineplambech @diisdk cbsshare.cbs.dk/nyheder/topn…
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6 Jun 2023
Very excited that this important 2022 paper by our own @BrandAid_World and @sofie_hen on Google's efforts to use "tech for good" is now out Open Access. Read it here: research.cbs.dk/en/publicati…
25 Apr 2022
How to say you’re old-school materialist without saying…our @sofie_hen @CocoResearch paper @PublicAnthropol is now *published* on #Google #AI #tech4good @CBDScbs @CBS_WIRE @NThylstrup @diisdk @PeterDauvergne @DrAnkeSchwittay @LinseyMcgoey @madianou @trm_revolution @elipascucci
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3 May 2023
We are still working today on @CocoResearch on digital do-gooding led by @MahaRafiAtal @sofie_hen Serious discussants @AfricaBusPol @ssen03 @afejerskov @robertahawkins1 @texasinafrica @RobinSteedman Keep your eyes out for the next steps 🤓
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2 May 2023
Real talk for public scholarship from @texasinafrica: "You cannot talk about 'imaginaries' or 'necropolitics' or 'stakeholders' - normal people don't talk like that. It's painful for you, but [the alternative] is more painful for the reader." #coco2023
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2 May 2023
Blockchain for development, argues @danbrockington, assumes that development needs are out of sight, out of mind. Technology "helps" by making them "visible" but they were always visible to the people living them, and are now only visible to machines. Is that progress? #coco2023
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2 May 2023
"I have never seen people more interested in the Sustainable Development Goals as I have since I came to the business school - that's because [business for development] is now mainstream." - @BrandAid_World #coco2023
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23 Mar 2023
Someone just screamed with delight during the @everyhumantz tea break when seeing that a scholar of #Congo who wrote 10 books (Kevin C. Dunn) wrote a very generous review of ours @ABudabin @UMinnPress Asante sana. academic.oup.com/psq/advance…
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23 Mar 2023
Check out this great book review of Batman Saves the Congo at Political Science Quarterly by Kevin C. Dunn
@ABudabin @BrandAid_World
doi.org/10.1093/psquar/qqac0…
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14 Feb 2023
Two more weeks to submit abstracts for our workshop on new research on humanitarianism in the digital age.
commodifyingcompassion.com/_…
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10 Jan 2023
Join this exciting event around Conflict Minerals, Inc. by @ethuin hosted by CoCo and @CBDScbs.
Find the programme and register here: cbs.nemtilmeld.dk/626/
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5 Aug 2022
'Thoroughly researched and often laugh-out-loud funny, “Batman Saves the Congo” is a critically important look at a growing and under-examined — and frequently absurd — segment of the aid industry.' @UMinnPress @ABudabin @CBS_WIRE @CBDScbs washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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6 Aug 2022
In Pakistan, corporate "marketing campaigns steal the vocabulary of the women’s movement while drowning out the voices of the women they represent, twisting their narrative to present capitalism as the solution rather than the problem." 👏 @Shiza__Malik x.com/ShaziaZRafi/status/155…
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27 Mar 2022
Team @CocoResearch is excited for a busy week at #ISA2022.
Attending virtually? Catch @BrandAid_World and @ABudabin on an all-star panel discussing their new book, Batman Saves the Congo, tomorrow, and discussing their latest research into celebrity activism on Tuesday:
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27 Mar 2022
Coming to Nashville? You can catch @MahaRafiAtal talking about how companies and NGOs use aid partnerships to survive in hostile political environments on Thursday, and about big tech monopolies and labor rights on Saturday. Come say hi! #ISA2022
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26 Nov 2021
One of the ways team @CocoResearch kept our work going during the pandemic was to take our meetings outside on long walks, including during the Danish winter. Yesterday, we took our walk-and-talks to Cambridge for Thanksgiving. We hope all who celebrate had a great holiday!
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10 Nov 2021
Hot off the virtual press: new research on how brands commodified covid-19, from our own @MahaRafiAtal and @BrandAid_World. ⬇️
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1 Oct 2021
Happening now! Our own @ABudabin and @BrandAid_World launch "Batman Saves the Congo," their new book about what happened when Ben Affleck and Starbucks tried to help Congolese coffee farmers. Tune in below for a great panel, and buy the book here: upress.umn.edu/book-division…
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