Sofie Elbæk Henriksen
@sofie_hen
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Anthropologist and PhD Fellow at @diisdk & @CBDScbs. I study humanitarianism, migration and corporate tech responses to refugee crises
Copenhagen, Denmark
Joined October 2019
RT @JRefugeeStudies: Thrilled to announce the second of our 2024 Early-Career Researcher Prize winners! 🎉 Congratulations to @sofie_hen for….
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Abstract. Hackathons have become popular for helping refugees, among NGOs, volunteers, and corporations but their material impact has been limited. This ar
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RT @BrandAid_World: What is the problem with 'Tech for Good'? What should tech companies like Google and meta do instead of commodifying co….
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Vexing political questions of power, inequality and coloniality permeate the tech sector and its growing use of global ‘virtual’ assembly lines that see them pe...
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RT @margchee: Conjuring innovation🪄. Tech pilots aren’t just designed to help people. Regardless of what they achieve, they are valuable pr….
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RT @DanihjelMO: 🗣️Will donation apps revolutionize aid?. The short answer is NO‼️ The long answer is found in @BrandAid_World and my articl….
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RT @BrandAid_World: And then there was the superhero version where unaccountable elites sell business solutions to 'save' Congo with Starbu….
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Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development, examines the role of the rich and famous in development and humanitarianism. The book argues that celebrities do both, and...
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RT @BrandAid_World: Some of you @SASE_Meeting #SASE2024 +know us @CocoResearch have seen how there are some remarkable things going on in t….
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“Has there ever been a better reason to shop?” asks an ad for the Product RED American Express card, telling members who use the card that buying “capp...
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RT @diisdk: Humanitære hackathons har ikke ført til udvikling af brugbar teknologi. Men de har fodret en fortælling om tech-virksomheder, s….
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RT @_gesanchez: Because another border is possible: "Reimagining the Migration Protection System." A @HopeBorder @TempleLaw publication by….
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Har skrevet om hackatons og tech-giganternes indtog på det humanitære marked i Jyllands-Posten idag:
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Forskning peger på, at sult, fattigdom og flygtningekriser ikke kan løses med et teknologisk quickfix, og at tech-virksomhedernes ”humanitære arbejde” primært bidrager til en fortælling om, at big...
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RT @BASeditors: Check out this new study by Henriksen (@CBScph) examining how alignment between humanitarian and business interests is purs….
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RT @BrandAid_World: This is one of my new publications of which I am most proud, free downloads here-should they run out you are always wel….
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Humanitarian logics enable the unfree labour of racialized capitalism by making visible the beneficence of those who profit. Understanding the structure of feelings undergirding these imaginaries w...
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What is humanitarian hacking and who does it actually help? I went to two refugee hackathons to find out! . Read more in my new @JRefugeeStudies article on refugees, #hackathons and digital capitalism: . @diisdk @CBDScbs #TechForGood
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RT @AhlamChemlali: My new publication "Treading Water in Transit" is out in @scmrjems! Exploring Ivorian migrant women's navigation in urba….
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Thank you friends, family and colleagues for support ❤️ @AhlamChemlali @Dr_CvG @Nauja_Kleist @IVammen @AfricaBusPol @AmandaHaarman @astoeb.
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Yesterday I successfully defended my PhD on tech companies as humanitarian actors 🥳 Thanks so much to the committee @PollyWilkins @PublicAnthropol and @BondoHansen for your thoughtful and hard questions 🤓 @BrandAid_World @sineplambech @diisdk @CBScph
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RT @MarieKolling: 4 days left to propose a paper for #EASA2024 and to join our panel in Barcelona on contemporary capitalism, datafication….
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📢We are finishing off our @diisdk seminar series on #dataextractivism next week with the webinar "The Costs of Connection in the Age of Big Data and AI". Join us to hear @couldrynick & @UlisesAliMejias on Data Colonialism, Tuesday, Dec. 5. Sign up here:
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This webinar takes stock of the concept of Data Colonialism to understand contemporary links between data, capitalism, and global inequality
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Happy and very honoured to receive the 2023 Fonnesbech PhD Prize 🥳 I look forward to continuing my research @CBDScbs, @CBScph and @diisdk with great colleagues!
Now it is OFFICIAL that our @CocoResearch @CBDScbs PhD colleague @sofie_hen has won @CBScph top PhD Researcher Fonnesbech Prize this year! I'm 1 of her proud supervisors⭐️ w/@sineplambech @diisdk
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