61 authors, 39 chapters & 3 very happy editors 😀! Our "Handbook On Humanitarianism & Inequality" is finally published! This 🧵will feature more details about the virtual book launch, chapters & much more (1/n)

“Ten insights from development economics research in 2024” Great list from VoxDev editor Oliver Hanney. A few of my favorites:

Once upon a time, the idea that academia might destroy capitalism did not seem so absurd. In Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942), Joseph Schumpeter argued that the expansion of higher education would lead to the emergence of an underemployed academic precariat. 1/16

My 2025 letter to the readers of The New Humanitarian "Humanitarians succeed when they give greater power and agency to those affected by oppression and crises. They fail when they become complicit, putting the system, funding, politics, or a misguided Eurocentric view of the world

My first article in a while! Part of an SI I am co-editing w/Andy Sumner King's International Development on 'Unity in Diversity? The Future of #DevelopmentStudies'. The whole SI is in EADI Eur Journal of Dev Research. All articles will be up! Here is mine: link.springer.com/article/10.105… Global Development Institute

1990s called and wants their branding back ;)

The dismantling of #USAID & the paradoxes of #globaldev In my latest post I zoomed out a little bit to reflect what this current moment of crisis means for the complexities & paradoxes of foreign aid. I focuses on 7 paradoxes & challenges (1/x)

(6) Aid is still not the answer to humanitarian or climate crises or questions about local responsibilities (7) No matter how much information, communication & facts experts provide, aid continues to be an easy target for misinformation (4/x) Full post: aidnography.blogspot.com/2025/02/disman…

What a year for global development already... - mailchi.mp/1788fd8856d8/a…

Where in the world is the number of humanitarian jobs increasing?

How did Idi Amin’s regime survive for eight calamitous years? Drawing on recently uncovered archival material, Derek Peterson’s new book reconstructs the political logic of the era, focusing on the ordinary people—civil servants, curators and artists, businesspeople, patriots—who

It's out 🎉😊❤️ In 'Teaching to say "no"' (published now in Teaching in Higher Education (TiHE)), Dr. Jamie J. Hagen 🍉, Lewis Turner & I build on decolonial, indigenous scholarship to discuss how university teachers can teach their students how to refuse to engage in harmful research. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My new book--A Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda--publishes today! Based on newly-available government archives, the book shows why and how Amin's regime commanded popular support. It can be bought on paper or as an e-book here: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030027…

Sharing some observations from a recent second trip to Chad. The challenges are multiplying. More Sudanese refugees arrive, the UN will cut funding for them. At Lake Chad you have more sophisticated jihadist attacks…

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