Happening now! Our own Dr. Alexandra C Budabin and Lisa Ann Richey 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/…

Hot off the virtual press: new research on how brands commodified covid-19, from our own Dr Maha and Lisa Ann Richey. ⬇️

One of the ways team Commodifying Compassion 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!

'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.' U of MN Press Dr. Alexandra C Budabin CBS WIRE @CBDScbs washingtonpost.com/politics/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/st…

Join this exciting event around Conflict Minerals, Inc. by Christoph N. Vogel hosted by CoCo and @CBDScbs. Find the programme and register here: cbs.nemtilmeld.dk/626/ Lisa Ann Richey @KasperHoffmann2

Two more weeks to submit abstracts for our workshop on new research on humanitarianism in the digital age. commodifyingcompassion.com/_files/ugd/ef7…

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 Dr. Alexandra C Budabin U of MN Press Asante sana. academic.oup.com/psq/advance-ar…

Check out this great book review of Batman Saves the Congo at Political Science Quarterly by Kevin C. Dunn Dr. Alexandra C Budabin Lisa Ann Richey doi.org/10.1093/psquar…

"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." - Lisa Ann Richey #coco2023

Blockchain for development, argues Dan Brockington, 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

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

We are still working today on Commodifying Compassion on digital do-gooding led by Dr Maha Sofie Elbæk Henriksen Serious discussants @AfricaBusPol kapital köle @afejerskov roberta hawkins @texasinafrica Robin Steedman Keep your eyes out for the next steps 🤓

Very excited that this important 2022 paper by our own Lisa Ann Richey and Sofie Elbæk Henriksen on Google's efforts to use "tech for good" is now out Open Access. Read it here: research.cbs.dk/en/publication…

Happy and very honoured to receive the 2023 Fonnesbech PhD Prize 🥳 I look forward to continuing my research @CBDScbs, Copenhagen Business School and DIIS Denmark with great colleagues!