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Branding Aid
“Aid is working – Tell the world how” is how the Grand Challenges in Global Health page starts (If you’re wondering who is behind Grand Challenges, you don’t have to look farther than…
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U.S. charity in history, pt. 1
The question keeps coming up – why does the U.S. do philanthropy the way it does? It’s a peculiar form that in many ways is not so different from Roman foundation work –…
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American Philanthropy, pt 3 (yes, i skipped pt. 2)
I keep an eye on the Philanthrocapitalism webpage for inspiration. They don’t disappoint. Today, i read The Rich Versus the Rest? - a post responding to the recent push in England (and also here…
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On death more generally
Seattle lost a wonderful artist last month. Christopher Martin Hoff died of heart failure in his home in March. I was introduced to him through a mutual friend that i met in a…
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Labors of love and race
I was invited to participate in two projects this year related to race and diversity in the department. One was directed at growing our diversity and the other was about having discussions about…
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Marines and chaos
I don’t talk about what i study outside of a few spaces because it really isn’t good dinner conversation. I think it should be the fourth, really – politics, religion, money, militarization of…
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UPDATED … AAG Update #1: Gayatri Spivak
Gayatri Spivak gave an impassioned and pointed lecture directed at geographers in just the appropriately theoretically and instructionally poignant ways. She was gently chiding in those moments requiring it, delightfully self-deprecating in others….
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London NoBorders Convergence 2012
Looks like i’ve chosen just the right time to arrive in London – just in time for the NoBorders Convergence 2012. Now, if only i can figure out how to break away from…
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Contradictions and Multiculturalism
Today’s PhD school, Tracing Colonialism and Orientalism in Social and Political Thought, consisted of an introductory talk by Engin Isin, followed by a talk from Ian Almond, referencing his book, The New Orientalists:…
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World Economic Forum and Risks
Thanks to Stuart Elden for the lead. First, it’s important to note that this diagram is based from responses of WEF survey respondents. These are “469 experts and industry leaders who worry that…
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Health citizenship and Haiti…
Mountz (2004) and others (Nagar et al, 2002; Hyndman, 2001) point to the importance in the scalar narratives of globalization, and particularly, in locating the processes of power in relation to the state….
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Security and peace
I’ve been mired, lately, in conversations around managing security. It began with a rather heated exchange about the role of prisons. I had snorted rudely at the thought of a prosecutor guiding Vipassana…
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On ego in the academy
This holiday season i happened into a conversation with two men – one with a PhD (i think?) in sustainable design and another working at Microsoft. We were chatting about graduate school, people…
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Rolling back the state
Over the past 15+ years, academics and researchers have written extensively about the rolling back of the state (Atkinson, 1999; Colás, 2005; Essex, 2008; Jessop, 2002; Kelsey, 1993; Koffman & Raghuram, 2009; Kiely,…
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Ideology, hegemony, governmentality, and theories of everything – oh my!
I finally picked up Terry Eagleton’s Ideology and started reading. I checked his book out something like 13 times before i bought my own. The first thing that struck me is that there…
On writing about other places
I stumbled on a delightful (word choice?) piece by Ansel Adams about How to Write About Haiti. The comments at the end of the piece are really quite insightful and led to Binyavanga…
Baking helps to relieve the soul
This will probably be the last of the crafting and baking posts for a very long time as we “do” Christmas tomorrow, and then it’s down to the real business of writing a…
