Brendan Whitty

Lecturer in International Development Management at UEA. Sociology of knowledge, aid techno-politics, evaluator.

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@CharlieGLusaka @RoryCrewACA @EmmaMawdsley Heh. I suspect access might be a problem - but I'd be up for it if they were.

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@martinscott2010 @EmmaMawdsley Thanks @martinscott2010 @nomhossain - privilege to work with such amazing colleagues @jessie_sklair @paulrgilbert @EmmaMawdsley @otaylor9426 and Joanna Russon.

[Naomi Hossain @nomhossain]

One of those papers that you didn't know you desperately needed until you read it

@EmmaMawdsley and colleagues on the relentless rise of for-profit consultancies in aid

https://t.co/K3SRNfg8le

[Brendan Whitty @BrendanWhitty]

A thread that neatly stitches together several of the most trenchant critiques of international development from the past fifty years or so. h/t

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

What’s wrong with international development agencies in Ukraine?

My list of top fundamental errors that are committed to

1. Obsession with control 1/

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@guijti @UStASoM @developmentuea Working on nonprofit management amongst broader questions of the development sectors' engagements with capitalism

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Exciting day. I'm on a train up to Scotland, about to start a job St Andrews School of Management @UStASoM - it's been a pretty amazing three and a half years at @developmentuea - I've loved it, but I'm excited to be going back to Scotland and to new collaborations

[Charlotte @Miss_M_Maths]

Any local followers, would love to have your support on the picket lines on Thursday #TeacherStrike @SouthwarkSolid ✊🏼

[Development Studies Association @devcomms]

After attending our Political Economy study group conference, @annarachelwood wrote on how we should look at 'geographies of hope' to help motivate in the field of development studies.
Read the piece here: https://t.co/VhRfcLnknw

[Brendan Whitty @BrendanWhitty]

Last call - deadline today! @whowhywherewhen & Corentin Cohen and myself are convening this panel at ECAS conference - "Management consultants, developers and politics in Africa" - @GSSC_Cologne at @UniCologne, end of May - https://t.co/Mg4Hqkf10v

[Dr Portia Roelofs @whowhywherewhen]

Co-convening this panel w/ @Politics_Oxford 's Corentin Cohen + @BrendanWhitty from the @UKRI_News project on "Development consultants and contractors: for-profit companies in the changing world of 'Aidland'" w/ @EmmaMawdsley @paulrgilbert @jessie_sklair
https://t.co/ssVAmn13vd

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Off to Manchester for a Politics of Development Studies conference - really happy to be meeting in person, thanks @pritishbehuria @GoodfellowTom for organising, @draykay1 wish you were coming to copresent on management rationalities & political imaginaries

[Anna Wood @annarachelwood]

On the train to the Politics of Development workshop in Manchester @devcomms. Looking forward to presenting tomorrow on social protection and its broader social politics in Senegal. Window view.

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@KavitaUrbanist @elipascucci @KoneenSaatio @OroubElAbed @PollyWilkins @CaitlinR_Scott @EmmaMawdsley Thanks Kavita, Elisa - registered to attend

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@EmmaProud Like all of this. The relations bit seems important: thinking about the relational and political practices of convening spaces, listening, learning, compromising where necessary, building platforms, generating persuasive arguments, moving fast if opportunities present, persisting

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@seatsixtyone I wish Lumo had bike spaces

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@EmmaProud That said, I find this https://t.co/zU1683IWYu and this https://t.co/Prj2TBcYwJ kind of thing persuasive

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@EmmaProud Heh, main answer I have to that last one: 'ask the people involved in political action and activism at the policy and street level'

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@exseacatwoman @RosieCollingto @MazzucatoM It's pre-ordered! Super excited for it