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Latest Developments, May 17

Beyond Aid wrote 5 days ago: In the latest news and analysis… Forever war The New York Times reports on the current debate over t … more →

Tags: latest developments, Authorization to Use Military Force, Colonialism, EU Emissions Trading Scheme, Food Security, Income Inequality, Niger delta, oil spill, Tax Havens

Protection1 comment

freshascerts wrote 2 weeks ago: Something that I touched on in my post “Racism Hangover Stream of Consciousness” is the feeling I ge … more →

Tags: Race, racism, Bystander Intervention, person of color, protection, Paternalistic, maternalistic, Perpetrator, Intervention

Hope for Poonam

amhovel wrote 1 month ago: I realize it’s been quite a while since I’ve issued any sort of update on my work with R … more →

Tags: capacity building, Skill Building, White Man's Burden, Kolkata bustees, Slum education

You Can't Empower Those You Pity23 comments

Marilyn wrote 2 months ago: “The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional … more →

Tags: Faith, Pakistan, Travel, Refugees, World, Jacobabad, Flood, development, Missions

Do the Moni really want to live as they always have?1 comment

climbcarstensz wrote 5 months ago: Amy with a Moni friend c. 2007 As a child of missionaries to West Papua, Indonesia, I have heard man … more →

Tags: Customs & Culture, West Papua, Moni, New Guinea, Culture, cultural sensitivity, Community Development, Cannibalism, Tribes

Nicholas Kristof: Half the Sky, All the Credit5 comments

Anne Elizabeth Moore wrote 7 months ago: by Melissa Gira Grant and Anne Elizabeth Moore  Nick Kristof is a big fan of workplace evaluation fo … more →

Tags: Topics, activist strategies, Cambodia, Media Justice, Film Review

Capitalizing on Stereotypes

fuddledfeminists wrote 8 months ago: At some point in the last year, I apparently donated money to a charity that then turned around and … more →

Tags: Native Americans, poverty porn, Stereotypes, Charity

Dealing with White Saviorism6 comments

fuddledfeminists wrote 8 months ago: “The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional … more →

Tags: Teju Cole, Global Health

Visiting Papua (Part 3: Cultural Sensitivity) 21 comments

climbcarstensz wrote 9 months ago: Teju Cole, writer, art historian, street photographer, and contributor to the New York Times, the Ne … more →

Tags: Customs & Culture, West Papua, Moni, Papua, Dani, Teju Cole, The Atlantic, Carstensz, Culture

Brother Number One and the White Savior Industrial Complex1 comment

Anne Elizabeth Moore wrote 10 months ago: The official description of the 2011 documentary film Brother Number One reads: Brother Number One i … more →

Tags: Topics, advertising marketing and PR, Cambodia, Film Review

‘Ghana ThinkTank’ Turns the Tables on White Saviors

dean.chahim wrote 11 months ago: ‘Ghana ThinkTank’ Turns the Tables on White Saviors This is an old article, but what looks to be a f … more →

Tags: Good Intentions, learning from the south, Case Studies

Palliatives in the age of branding

Anne Elizabeth Moore wrote 12 months ago: A study released Tuesday found that a full third of the drugs used throughout Southeast Asia and Afr … more →

Tags: projects, Topics, Cambodia, girl culture, journalism projects, Media Justice, Money and Politics

The low-rent white savior industrial complex

Anne Elizabeth Moore wrote 12 months ago: Al Jazeera‘s “People & Power” reporter Juliana Ruhfus released a new investiga … more →

Tags: projects, Topics, girl culture, journalism projects, Media Justice

The Great Sellout 3 comments

tmfroh wrote 1 year ago: “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” – Jeff Hammerbach … more →

Tags: Culture, technology, facebook, The Faustian Bargain, TeD, Instagram, Silicon Valley, Kony 2012, slacktivism

Colonialism, the White Man's Burden, and the History of Development2 comments

laurenholtzman wrote 1 year ago: Internationaldevelopmentshould.com is a blog about making people really think about the “purpose of … more →

Tags: Social Media, ICT4D Course Lessons, Kony 2012, White Man's Burden, HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT

Teju Cole on KONY 2012 and the White Savior Industrial Complex

The Urchins wrote 1 year ago: By Sarah Jost Earlier this month, the American non-profit Invisible Children released a video entitl … more →

Tags: politics. global issues, Sarah, Teju Cole, jason russell, Kony 2012, Invisible Children, The Atlantic, Joseph Kony, Lord's Resistance Army

How do you change the world?1 comment

Travis wrote 1 year ago: I was going to wait to publish this when I had a better wrap on what I was thinking/feeling.  I don’ … more →

Tags: Africa, mission, Questions, #kony2012, Change the World, Helping or Hurting, Invisible Children, helping, Teju Cole

Kony 2012 & The White Savior Industrial Complex

Katherine Mullen wrote 1 year ago: I’m a bit late to the Kony 2012 party and I’m now feeling very uneasy about Invisible Ch … more →

Tags: Global Feminism, Video, War, Invisible Children, Kony 2012, Teju Cole, The Atlantic

Food For Thought

evajge wrote 1 year ago: Here are some interesting articles I’ve recently read and that I’d like to share: The Wh … more →

Tags: Personal, Current Events, Kony 2012, sex, sexism


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