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ECDPM 🌍 @ecdpm.org · 3h

📆 Join us on 16 October 2025 from 15:30 in Brussels and online to look at how AI is deployed across Africa in three critical sectors: health, education and agriculture.

Registration 👉 bit.ly/4q3lPyK

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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · 1h

✨ Sabina Alkire explains why looking at multiple intersecting factors like health, education, nutrition and housing makes a difference in efforts to end poverty.

All @odid-qeh.bsky.social news: www.devstud.org.uk/2025/09/12/o...

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 1h

Marx over the time became increasingly aware of colonialism's and racism' role in capitalism, and came to integrate imperialism into his critique of political economy

✍️ From our blog

www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1347

Marx and Colonialism

By Lucia Pradella It is widely believed that Marx did not systematically consider the role of colonialism within the process of capital accumulation. According to David Harvey, Marx concentrated on…

www.developmentresearch.eu

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 20h

„The humanitarian NGO medico international has adopted a three-pronged strategy towards humanitarian aid: to defend it, to criticize it, and to overcome it. I propose to adopt a similar perspective regarding development cooperation"

From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2231

The End of Development Aid?

By Aram Ziai / Development and Development Policy in the Trump Era Series In the last few months, our object of research has seen some dramatic changes. I am referring to the de-facto dismantling o…

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UNRISD @unrisd.org · 21h

1 month to go! 🌍 The 2nd World Summit on Social Development is in Doha, 4–6 Nov. It’s a crucial chance to renew commitment to people-centred progress. UNRISD brings Global South voices & bold ideas for inclusive, transformative change.
https://ow.ly/Yq5o50X96pN
#SocialSummit2025

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German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) @giga-hamburg.de · 22h

Starting at 4:30 pm: We’re live today in Berlin for our #GIGATalk “Alliances in the Horn of Africa: Navigating Global and Regional Competition”.

➡️ Join us to discuss with experts from Africa and Europe: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/gi...

New Alliances in the Horn of Africa: Navigating Global and Regional Competition

The Horn of Africa is in flux: new alignments, regional rivalries, and global involvement are reshaping prospects for peace and stability. What do these shifts mean for Germany, the EU, and their role...

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 25d

"Decolonizing expertise in international organizations demands more than just diversifying expert pools; it requires dismantling the epistemic hierarchies that sustain the status quo"
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2265

Decolonizing Expertise: Reflections on Power, Knowledge, and Governance in International Organizations (IOs)

By Marine Gauthier / part of our “Share your Decolonising Story” project A Personal Reckoning with Expertise My engagement with international development has always been entangled with postcolonial…

www.developmentresearch.eu

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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 1d

Following the publication of her open-access paper on the same topic and a fantastic episode on the GDI podcast, Elisa Gambino has a new article in @theconversation.com alongside co-author Costanza Franceschini: theconversation.com/chinese-comp...

Chinese companies are changing the way they operate in Africa: here’s how

African governments and other local actors have a crucial role to play in shaping the activities of Chinese firms.

theconversation.com

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ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social · 23h

Fossil fuel companies claim to invest in renewables. But is it really helping the energy transition?

Fossil fuel companies are involved in very few renewable energy projects, a new report by ICTA-UAB reveals.

www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

Are fossil fuel companies really investing in renewable energy?

Fossil fuel companies are involved in very few renewable energy projects, a new report reveals.

www.euronews.com

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African Studies Centre Leiden @ascleiden.bsky.social · 22h

🚀 The ASCL has just launched its new Research Programme for 2025-2029: 'African Trajectories: Past Dependencies and New Directions'. ➡️ Find out: ascleiden.nl/content/rese...
#research #AfricanStudies #conflictstudies #globalstudies #decolonisation #energytransition #environmentstudies

Research Programme | African Studies Centre Leiden

African Trajectories: Past Dependencies and New Directions (2025–2029) The African Studies Centre Leiden’s new Research Programme 'African Trajectories: Past Dependencies and New Directions' builds…

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UNRISD @unrisd.org · 1d

🎥 Why is social protection a human right?
Katja Hujo, Head of UNRISD Bonn Office, explains why access to social protection must go beyond policy—it’s a right enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
📢 Watch her #VoicesofExperts video for #SPorg10YearsCampaign

socialprotection.org @socialprotection.org · 9d

#SPorg10YearsCampaign #VoicesofExperts video series (video #5) 📽️ We are pleased to announce a new episode of #VoicesofExperts, a short video series that highlights distinguished voices in SP as they share insights on the most pressing challenges confronting the field today.+

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 1d

🆕 📰 It's newsletter time again, featuring @ids.ac.uk's open access book "Internet Shutdowns in Africa", new research on #gender by @unrisd.org, @gvagrad.bsky.social, @unumerit.bsky.social and others and more news from us and our community

🔎 Read it here or in your inbox
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IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social · 1d

A new IDOS #DiscussionPaper analyses the Managing Global Governance (MGG) Network – a transnational, multi-stakeholder network that employs collaborative training, #KnowledgeCooperation & policy dialogue instruments. #MGGNetwork 🔗 www.idos-research.de/en/discussio...

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FERDI @fondationferdi.bsky.social · 1d

"𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆: 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘇𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗵𝗲𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁", par Thomas Cantens.

👉 lnkd.in/dubt-c7b

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · 1d

#POLLEN"2026 panels are now live.

What happens now is a vital part of the preparation

Hundreds of potential participants will be sending in their ideas to the hundreds of different convenors. It is a rich moment of exchange and interaction.

Please spread the word.

shorturl.at/fCGhB

Call for presentations & posters - POLLEN

The call for presentations and posters is now open until 23:59 CET on Friday 5th December. Before proposing anything, please read the conference rationale & purpose, the rules below, and then browse t...

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 1d

Great interview of climate scientist Mike Mann and virologist Peter Hotez on the war on science by special interest groups. My colleague Mann endured vicious attacks after his pioneering (and solidly confirmed) ‘hockey stick’ curve of #globalwarming.

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science

From its embrace of dubious research about autism, its skepticism over vaccines and its wholesale rejection of the consensus about climate change, the Trump administration has set off alarm bells with...

www.pbs.org

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 2d

In a new paper, we provide fresh evidence on the macroeconomic effects of public investment in 27 EU member states. We find that public investment has favorable effects on output and unemployment; doesn't crowd out private investment; and doesn't jeopardise debt sustainability.

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 1d

New article!

Climate action versus environmental protection? How far-right and environmentalist messengers shape public attitudes towards renewable energy infrastructure in forests, by @manesweisskircher.bsky.social and Matthias Diermeier.

doi.org/10.1080/0964...

ABSTRACT
This article examines how political messengers, and not the message, influence attitudes toward renewable energy infrastructure amid an increasingly polarized climate change debate. Focusing on wind power, a highly politicized issue, and solar energy, less contentious, we conducted an experimental survey in Germany. We assess how either a far-right or an environmentalist critic affect acceptance of renewables. Importantly, our analysis examines support for renewables in forest areas, focusing on a conflict between climate action and local environmental protection. Our findings reveal that the messenger impacts attitudes regarding wind energy. Criticism of wind turbine expansion by an environmentalist actor leads to greater rejection, while a similar critique by a far-right actor results in increased acceptance, i.e. a backlash effect. No such influence was found for solar energy. We explain these diverging findings by differences in politicization. Our findings have important consequences for understanding key dynamics of the public debate and political conflict over climate action.

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 10d

🎧 New "Share your Decolonising Story" podcast out!

Conversation about decolonising knowledge, including experiences in contexts where they are indigenous or non-indigenous scholars, and alternatives to the current development knowledge ecosystem.

open.spotify.com/episode/666f...

Taking stock : decolonising knowledge in development studies, with L. Camfield and M. Tadros

open.spotify.com

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 8d

We cannot repeat this often enough - pleaese stand with @iobua.bsky.social, sign and share!

#SaveIOB #StandWithIOB #IOBCommunity #GlobalEducation #GlobalSolidarity

IOB - Institute of Development Policy @iobua.bsky.social · 9d

🌍 1,555 voices for IOB — but we need more! Every day counts: sign the petition and share it widely so our message to policymakers grows stronger. 💙
👉 https://chng.it/8DhtrFSBpm

#SaveIOB #StandWithIOB #IOBCommunity #GlobalEducation #GlobalSolidarity

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German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) @giga-hamburg.de · 1d

#CannabisLegalization: What can Germany learn from Canada, South Africa or Uruguay? At our next #GIGAForum, international experts will share what worked and what didn’t work.

📅 Wednesday, 29 October 2025 | Online

➡️ Register now to join us for the discussion: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/gi...

From Reform to Reality: Germany’s Cannabis Policy in International Perspective

One year after Germany’s significant – and controversial – cannabis reform, leading experts draw on experiences of marijuana legalisation elsewhere to discuss the intended and unintended outcomes, the...

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

I'm excited to be at The University of Copenhagen's Center for Applied Ecological Thinking on the 21st!

I'll be talking about how the Trump regime manipulates the language of famous climate scientists to advance their fossil-fascist agenda.

If you're around, come out!

cape.ku.dk/eng/calendar...

The Language of Climate Politics

Talk with Genevieve Guenther followed by a discussion with Frederik Appel Olsen.

cape.ku.dk

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BG | berlinergazette.de @berlinergazette.bsky.social · 1d

@squirrelista.bsky.social argues that #energy must stop being a tool of domination + a playground for investors. Instead, energy should become a #commons: locally owned, socially controlled, and ecologically grounded!
berlinergazette.de/carbon-bombs... #colonialism #climate #carbon #GreenTransition

Carbon Bombs and ‘Green’ Transition: The Politics of Energy Colonialism · BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DE

Although colonialism has formally ended, its effects persist, as seen with ‘carbon bombs’ and the weaponization of ‘clean energy.’ However, as Franziska Müller argues in her “Pluriverse of Peace” cont...

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Grist @grist.org · 2d

A guide to the 4 minerals shaping the world’s energy future.
To address climate change, we're going to need a whole lot of metal.

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#Mining #Mines #Climate #Lithium #CleanEnergy #Renewables #EV #Cars

A guide to the 4 minerals shaping the world's energy future

To address climate change, we're going to need a whole lot of metal.

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 2d

New article!

Cassandra from the far right: how the German and Austrian populist radical right links climate skepticism with economic issues by Till Hilmar / @tillhilmar.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/0964...

$ABSTRACT This article asks how two populist radical right parties, the German AfD and the Austrian FPÖ, communicate about climate on Twitter/X. Analyzing a corpus of 6,254 tweets, it pays special attention to a relatively underresearched aspect of climate communication by these actors: the way they reference the economy – in what I call ‘economic signification’ – in their discourse on climate. I distinguish four narratives promoted by them, climate policies threaten the economy as a whole; they unfairly burden specific ‘deserving’ groups; climate actors pursue hidden economic agendas; and they act on misguided assumptions and lack economic competence. By combining response and process skepticism, these narratives refract a broader vision of social order, allowing these parties to present themselves as a ‘voice of reason’ in the climate debate. Economic signification allows the far right to speak in the ‘realist’, warning mode, decrying the alleged economic ‘irrationality’ of mainstream parties.$

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