📚Interested in how South-South relations transform and are transformed by Africa's Global Infrastructures? Our book is finally out🌍
Thanks @PoCoSecurity and @YifanMiaYang for the fantastic journey as co-editors and to our brilliant contributors.
How do Brazilian and Indian relations with Africa compare and how do both engaged in infrastructure bulidng? A new chpater with @mat_alencastro and Prof. Soares de Oliveira analyses this the boom in both countries’ infrastructure building, and their fall
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While the #USAElection2024 are under way, Pádraig Carmody relates work on ‚deglobalization‘ and ‚peak China’ to our work on transforming global practices through China, India, Brazil. We will need new ways of ‚seeing‘ how power and influence operate in current transformations.
📚Join us in Utrecht (or online) on 5 November (12:00-14:30, CET) for the book launch seminar of "Africa's Global Infrastructures: South-South Transformations in Practices", co-edited by @PoCoSecurity , @YifanMiaYang, and myself (@HurstPublishers & @OUPAcademic, 2024).
All eyes should really *also* be on #Mexico . #SandraDomínguez disappeared in #Oaxaca, had exposed politicians' porn networks. 2 retired profs teaching wastewater use, killed in #Morelos. Displacements of #zapatista supporters #Chiapas. News from 1 morning. @DMRKMexiko
Laura y Enrique dedicaron su vida a crear modelos sustentables. Investigaban cómo limpiar aguas residuales usando humedales artificiales o cómo usar partículas de origen microbiano para descomponer la contaminación de pesticidas o combustibles.
Los secuestraron y mataron.
starting our ThinkLab on “Temporalities of Rupture & Continuity” in Marburg, hosted by @zfk_mr @Uni_MR - Full house for this brilliant Keynote panel on queer, feminist & relational perspectives with Emma Pritchard, Álvaro Okura, Juliana González, moderated by @S_BuckleyZistel 🎙️
We find that Chinese miners abroad concede under similar conditions as their Western and other global peers: intense disruptive actions and pressure from state actors and NGOs lead to concessions.
We show, however, that reputational vulnerability is key for responsiveness but is lower for many Chinese companies due to reputational vulnerabilities being differently distributed in the Chinese case.
🧵⬇️Check out the great papers in our new special issue of Geopolitics (29, 5: 2024): Making Space for Peace in Contexts of ‘Non-war’ Violence: Challenging War-Peace Binaries Through Feminist, Spatio-Temporal, & Decolonial Approaches doi.org/10.1080/14650045.202…
The work by today's winners of the Nobel Prize in economics has been challenged by scholars like Yuen Yuen Ang, Mushtaq Khan, and Ha-Joon Chang. Read them!
Then you will understand that enforcing the North's capitalist institutions in the South does not lead to development.
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”
#NobelPrize