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Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful
Cambridge: Polity Press (2025), vii, 248 pp.
"With over 300 million people in need of humanitarian assistance and with emergencies and climate disasters becoming ever more common, AI and big data are being championed as a force for good and as a solution to the complex challenges of the aid sector. This book argues, on the contrary, that digit
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ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid
New York: Oxford University Press (2023), 240 pp.
"ReSounding Poverty offers a microethnography of economic networks that impact the daily lives of Romani musicians on the borders of the former Soviet Union and the European Union. It argues that the development aid allotted to provide economic assistance to Romani communities, when analyzed from th
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Why Some Development Works: Understanding Success
London et al.: Zed Books (2021), 160 pp.
"Right at the beginning of her book, the author makes it clear how complex and difficult it is to track down success factors for functioning development processes. Her research and case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America, which focus on local processes and selected, in many cases state-run,
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Theatre In/for Development in Tanzania: A Neoliberal Nightmare
In: Trends in Twenty-First-Century African Theatre and Performance
Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi (2010), pp. 191-215
"This chapter explores the relationship between theatre and neoliberal policies in Tanzania. It analyses the consequences of neoliberalism for the Tanzanian theatre and exposes the challenges it faces as a simulacrum of people’s culture. I also present evidence on why it is important, when analyzi
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