Tobias Denskus
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Associate Professor in Development Studies @malmouni, Sweden
Malmö
Joined November 2009
61 authors, 39 chapters & 3 very happy editors 😀! Our "Handbook On Humanitarianism & Inequality" is finally published! This 🧵will feature more details about the virtual book launch, chapters & much more (1/n)
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The rush of young Nepalis heading for overseas labour will only increase in days to come following the destruction of state institutions of 9 Sept. This was not what Gen Z activists planned with their 8 Sept protest against unbridled corruption and mediocre governance.
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BREAKING NEWS - The #UnitedNations is: 💥 Verbose 💥 Prolix 💥 Widely ignored We know this because... the @UN says so. A new review of UN mandates reveals that: 1. UN resolutions are getting wordier [1/3] https://t.co/CCe2NdOzzO
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Sharing some observations from a recent second trip to Chad. The challenges are multiplying. More Sudanese refugees arrive, the UN will cut funding for them. At Lake Chad you have more sophisticated jihadist attacks…
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My new book--A Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda--publishes today! Based on newly-available government archives, the book shows why and how Amin's regime commanded popular support. It can be bought on paper or as an e-book here: https://t.co/dnGOFyuZ32
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How did Idi Amin’s regime survive for eight calamitous years? Drawing on recently uncovered archival material, Derek Peterson’s new book reconstructs the political logic of the era, focusing on the ordinary people—civil servants, curators and artists, businesspeople, patriots—who
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Where in the world is the number of humanitarian jobs increasing?
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“ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor”
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ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi,...
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(6) Aid is still not the answer to humanitarian or climate crises or questions about local responsibilities (7) No matter how much information, communication & facts experts provide, aid continues to be an easy target for misinformation (4/x) Full post: https://t.co/u5u0c4jgQJ
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The dismantling of #USAID & the paradoxes of #globaldev In my latest post I zoomed out a little bit to reflect what this current moment of crisis means for the complexities & paradoxes of foreign aid. I focuses on 7 paradoxes & challenges (1/x)
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(6) Aid is still not the answer to humanitarian or climate crises or questions about local responsibilities (7) No matter how much information, communication & facts experts provide, aid continues to be an easy target for misinformation (4/x) Full post: https://t.co/u5u0c4jgQJ
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(4) It’s not just the US- #globaldev in the OECD is under pressure (5) Reforms are needed, but many governments target aid for short-sighted, populist, right-leaning, migration-related reasons (3/x)
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(1) Aid “from the American people” is much more than an imperial foreign policy tool (2) The aid-industrial complex needs a fundamental re-think (3) Expat aid workers & consultants may lose jobs-but many local jobs & livelihoods are affected as well (2/x)
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The dismantling of #USAID & the paradoxes of #globaldev In my latest post I zoomed out a little bit to reflect what this current moment of crisis means for the complexities & paradoxes of foreign aid. I focuses on 7 paradoxes & challenges (1/x)
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61 authors, 39 chapters & 3 very happy editors 😀! Our "Handbook On Humanitarianism & Inequality" is finally published! This 🧵will feature more details about the virtual book launch, chapters & much more (1/n)
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1990s called and wants their branding back ;)
For 80 years, knowledge has been key to the World Bank. We're now refocusing as a knowledge mechanism, bringing experts to work directly with governments to craft development plans that blend ambition with expertise. Learn more: https://t.co/YJ56O9f5xE
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My first article in a while! Part of an SI I am co-editing w/Andy Sumner @KingsIntDev on 'Unity in Diversity? The Future of #DevelopmentStudies'. The whole SI is in @EADI Eur Journal of Dev Research. All articles will be up! Here is mine: https://t.co/8vKVw6vS17
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The European Journal of Development Research - There are increasing calls to universalise the study of development to include the study of countries outside Asia, Africa and Latin America. This...
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My 2025 letter to the readers of @newhumanitarian "Humanitarians succeed when they give greater power and agency to those affected by oppression and crises. They fail when they become complicit, putting the system, funding, politics, or a misguided Eurocentric view of the world
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Once upon a time, the idea that academia might destroy capitalism did not seem so absurd. In Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942), Joseph Schumpeter argued that the expansion of higher education would lead to the emergence of an underemployed academic precariat. 1/16
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