Antipode Foundation "Right to the Discipline" grants, Call for Proposals, due date 31 March 2025 antipodeonline.org/a-right-to-the…

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.

Congrats to AJR! 🌟 They are brilliant. But I don't agree with their idealized portrayal of institutions in Western development It is historically inaccurate, if not ideologized Thus, not only do they struggle to explain China, they also can't explain why Western economies

When America was a developing country, it was massively corrupt and engaged in risky public financing schemes - much like China today Hence term "US Gilded Age" Gilded ≠ Golden 🤑

Did America prosper - primarily or only - because of “inclusive institutions”? From US National Archives Museum For generations, USA “wrestled with the conflict between promise of freedom and realities of slavery and racism”

Let me repeat. It is not only that AJR fails to explain Chinese development, they don't account for the Western / American experience, either. Mythologized narratives about institutions Not only mislead developing countries They also blind rich countries from seeing

Upcoming workshop on the responsibilities of European arms companies Universität Bayreuth #Zeitenwende ▶️ conflicts-meanings-transitions.de/en/dis-arming-…

How do #Chinese #companies respond to #contestation? I am proud this joint work with Jan Sändig and Claude Kabemba has been published now! Take a read, and get in touch if you have any questions, comments or suggestions. #GlobalChina #Africa

This looks amazing! If you work on a longer manuscript on these themes, send us a note for the bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/spaces-of-peac… series that Dr. Sara Koopman now at @spaceforpeace.bsky.social and I edit with John Heathershaw @jheathershaw.bsky.social and Shahar Hameiri.

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. Deutsche Menschenrechtskoordination Mexiko

A good start. And many thanks for a productive meeting beforehand Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict colleagues!

📚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 Jana Hönke , Yifan Mia Yang, and myself (Hurst Publishers & Oxford Academic, 2024).

👉Registration: forms.office.com/e/iyhmQMPUtN

Herzliche Einladung zur Veranstaltung: Freiheitskämpfe, aber wo? Über Aktivismus im Lokalen und Globalen Wann: 6.11., 18:00-20:00 Wo: Deutschhausstraße 12, Raum 00A26 in Marbyrg Referenten: Armin Djamali, Tarek Shukrallah, Tareq Sydiq Moderation: Thorsten Bonacker

Tomorrow! 👉Registration: forms.office.com/e/iyhmQMPUtN

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.

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 hurstpublishers.com/book/africas-g…