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New article 'Looking for the local: The Politics of Humanitarian Recruitment in DRC' reveals how aid agencies can fuel social tensions when the 'local' aid category interacts with existing discourses around belonging, authority, and territory muse.jhu.edu/pub/35/artic...

You may already have seen her on the BBC this morning, but journalists and policy experts looking for experts on digital ID cards - you need to speak to @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social

This is a post from earlier this year
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

We asked Sudanese people to explain what the war is about. What emerges is clear: there is no such thing as a war about nothing. continent.substack.com/p/is-the-sud...

Latest publication from Dr Myfanwy James which explores how the inclusion of pregnant women in an Ebola vaccine trial in Goma, DRC, sparked local rumors that reflected broader ethical concerns and historical anxieties
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New article on Ebola in DRC, 'Rumor as ethical vernacular'. I argue that the womb became a site to discuss broader biopolitical anxieties about collective survival, but that rumors also became a vehicle for ethical debate amid uncertainty. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

‘Achille Mbembe warns us that the condition of the colonies is rapidly becoming the condition of all of subaltern humanity.’

Kevin Okoth:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...