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Hello all,

This week's review turned out to have a peace, conflict & gender focus, featuring new research on local accountability, violence & disability, results-orientation in peacebuilding, Quaker history & memory, all-male (peace) conferences and a great blog on Zimbabwe. But make sure to leave room for a brilliant 'Letter to a Social Entrepreneur' and more reflections on the end of 'educational cartels'. And for the very brave there's even a 15 minute interview with Aidnography on development HR, generational shifts & the risk of medicalizing humanitarian work risks.

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New on/from aidnography
AidWorks 17th April 2013. Tobias Denskus discusses development HR & Generation ZPeople in Aid recently released a report on the state of Human Resourcing in development organisations, with results that were less than encouraging. Calling for a promotion of Human Resourcing within aid and development organisations as a specialist skill, the report p…

This volume is a collection of articles published in the journal Critique of Anthropology between 1975 and 1991. Its purpose is to illustrate key trends in what is sometimes referred to as “critical anthropology”, a non-dogmatic Marxist turn within anthropology that has strongly shaped the field. [...] Because many of the articles have long been out of print and inaccessible in its original form, this book is a teaching resource, and, for future generations of scholars, a compendium if original arguments that are of continued relevance to the evolution of the discipline (p.7). 
Stephen Nugent, the editor of the Critical Anthropology. Foundational Works collection and an editor of the journal Critique of Anthropology, manages to capture the purpose and value of the collection very well right on the first page.
Featuring authors like Andre Gunder Frank, Immanuel Wallerstein, Marshall Sahlins, Michael Taussig and Eric R. Wolf (and basically no female anthropologists-but read my comment at…

Hello all,

Sometimes the intro feels like more work than the actual link review...in short: as with previous weeks, there's lot of great stuff to discover. It's broadly along the 'words' and 'action' trajectory and different moments when one or the other seems to speak louder/too loud. The humanicontrarian points out how the illusion of political will is maintained through celebrities, summits and inaction on the ground. On the other hand, there are great success stories of reducing open defecation and introducing more efficient stoves in Nepal that are often ignored by the media. There's more on drones and peacekeeping, World Bank corruption and the question of how peacebuilding should engage with homicides & crime in post-war situations. Duncan Green introduces his 'best of blogging' and the UN-ECA's Director's blog proves to be a great new find. A new anthropological project engages with questions of gender and harassment in the field,…