Commodifying Compassion
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The marketplace is full of products promising to benefit humanitarian causes. We ask, what are the economic and social implications of commodifying compassion?
Joined March 2017
Wherever there is a crisis, there are brands trying to stay relevant. Here at @CocoResearch, we're collecting good, bad and ugly of brand responses to COVID19, from marketing ploys to charitable offers. Please do keep sending the tips our way!.
@BrandAid_World @CocoResearch @MahaRafiAtal @sineplambech @MFOlwig @ABudabin @adrianopedrana If you're quick Lisa, you can buy one of these corona hoodies for $129:
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RT @sofie_hen: Happy and very honoured to receive the 2023 Fonnesbech PhD Prize 🥳 I look forward to continuing my research @CBDScbs, @CBScp….
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Very excited that this important 2022 paper by our own @BrandAid_World and @sofie_hen on Google's efforts to use "tech for good" is now out Open Access. Read it here:
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How to say you’re old-school materialist without saying…our @sofie_hen @CocoResearch paper @PublicAnthropol is now *published* on #Google #AI #tech4good @CBDScbs @CBS_WIRE @NThylstrup @diisdk @PeterDauvergne @DrAnkeSchwittay @LinseyMcgoey @madianou @trm_revolution @elipascucci
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RT @BrandAid_World: We are still working today on @CocoResearch on digital do-gooding led by @MahaRafiAtal @sofie_hen Serious discussants @….
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Real talk for public scholarship from @texasinafrica: "You cannot talk about 'imaginaries' or 'necropolitics' or 'stakeholders' - normal people don't talk like that. It's painful for you, but [the alternative] is more painful for the reader." #coco2023
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Blockchain for development, argues @danbrockington, assumes that development needs are out of sight, out of mind. Technology "helps" by making them "visible" but they were always visible to the people living them, and are now only visible to machines. Is that progress? #coco2023
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"I have never seen people more interested in the Sustainable Development Goals as I have since I came to the business school - that's because [business for development] is now mainstream." - @BrandAid_World #coco2023
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RT @BrandAid_World: Someone just screamed with delight during the @everyhumantz tea break when seeing that a scholar of #Congo who wrote 10….
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In 2010, Ben Affleck, the actor perhaps best known for his numerous portrayals as Batman in the never-ending movie franchise, founded the Eastern Congo Ini
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Check out this great book review of Batman Saves the Congo at Political Science Quarterly by Kevin C. Dunn .@ABudabin @BrandAid_World .
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In 2010, Ben Affleck, the actor perhaps best known for his numerous portrayals as Batman in the never-ending movie franchise, founded the Eastern Congo Ini
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Two more weeks to submit abstracts for our workshop on new research on humanitarianism in the digital age.
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Join this exciting event around Conflict Minerals, Inc. by @ethuin hosted by CoCo and @CBDScbs. Find the programme and register here: @BrandAid_World @KasperHoffmann2
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RT @BrandAid_World: 'Thoroughly researched and often laugh-out-loud funny, “Batman Saves the Congo” is a critically important look at a gro….
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Three new books set the record straight on the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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In Pakistan, corporate "marketing campaigns steal the vocabulary of the women’s movement while drowning out the voices of the women they represent, twisting their narrative to present capitalism as the solution rather than the problem." 👏 @Shiza__Malik
@BrandAid_World @MahaRafiAtal Co-opting causes
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Coming to Nashville? You can catch @MahaRafiAtal talking about how companies and NGOs use aid partnerships to survive in hostile political environments on Thursday, and about big tech monopolies and labor rights on Saturday. Come say hi! #ISA2022
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Team @CocoResearch is excited for a busy week at #ISA2022. Attending virtually? Catch @BrandAid_World and @ABudabin on an all-star panel discussing their new book, Batman Saves the Congo, tomorrow, and discussing their latest research into celebrity activism on Tuesday:
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One of the ways team @CocoResearch kept our work going during the pandemic was to take our meetings outside on long walks, including during the Danish winter. Yesterday, we took our walk-and-talks to Cambridge for Thanksgiving. We hope all who celebrate had a great holiday!
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Hot off the virtual press: new research on how brands commodified covid-19, from our own @MahaRafiAtal and @BrandAid_World. ⬇️.
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Happening now! Our own @ABudabin and @BrandAid_World launch "Batman Saves the Congo," their new book about what happened when Ben Affleck and Starbucks tried to help Congolese coffee farmers. Tune in below for a great panel, and buy the book here:
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