Andrea Fitri Woodhouse

London/Jakarta/Yangon/DC. Mother of three. She/her. Tweets personal.

[Amitav Ghosh @GhoshAmitav]

Somnath Batabyal's 'Red River' is now out in the UK. I look forward to reading it.

https://t.co/ZAELDIv0Yb

[Su Lin Lewis @sulinlewis]

Delighted that this is finally out! Thanks to all our wonderful contributors (tagged below) and my absolute star of a co-editor @NanaOseiOpare. And to the @ahrcpress for funding our first workshop & @UKRI_News & @RiceUniversity for making it Open Access!

[Andrea Fitri Woodhouse @andreawoodhouse]

100 percent.

[Vijayendra Rao @bijurao]

Some years ago Michael Woolcock and I argued that the disciplinary monopoly held by economics @wb_research and other places was bad for policy (and no one listened). https://t.co/sWkiEBABwV

Today, an @FT editorial makes a similar (if ‘slightly weaker’) point on whether “economics is in need of trustbusting” https://t.co/nkdAmHtuw1

Research is subject to the same concerns of elite dominance, clientelism, and clubbiness as any other social system. And - as with anything else - it results in bad outcomes.

[Andrea Fitri Woodhouse @andreawoodhouse]

@Ugentilini This is wonderful, Ugo! Can’t wait to read it.

[Andrea Fitri Woodhouse @andreawoodhouse]

@metecoban92 I see four climate and environment champions in this picture. Say thank you to them from me too.

[Andrea Fitri Woodhouse @andreawoodhouse]

The same: his books had a profound influence on how I, and so many others I respect, see the world and he was a great ally to so many. Rest in peace, Jim Scott. And, as the announcement from his family says today, don't send flowers, donate to the Burmese/Myanmar resistance.

[Vijayendra Rao @bijurao]

Very sad to hear of the great Jim Scott’s passing. He leaves behind a profound intellectual legacy with immense practical implications. Few people have had such an impact across the social sciences. For me, three of his books, Moral Economy of the Peasant, Weapons of the Weak and Seeing Like a State transformed how I saw the world. And his ability to bridge two disciplines - Anthro and Poli Sci - while speaking to so many more was a great inspiration.

[Andrea Fitri Woodhouse @andreawoodhouse]

@kirstyjmcneill Brilliant, Kirsty!!

[My Life My Say @mylifemysay]

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[Andrea Fitri Woodhouse @andreawoodhouse]

@Semakaleng Sem what a beautiful photograph and tribute to your father. You must miss him so greatly.

[Andrea Fitri Woodhouse @andreawoodhouse]

And in that you can feel the sublime, a sense of wonder at the universality and sheer scope of human experience. That is too big to be crushed. It is the other, more linear worldview, that of this tech world ad and its metrics, that is impoverished: so small and so sad. 5/5

[Andrea Fitri Woodhouse @andreawoodhouse]

It's because creativity expresses what it is to be human. It's not about crushing what came before. Instead it opens possibility. It enables you to connect with human beings in the past and other places. It can let you look deeper into yourself. 4/5

[Andrea Fitri Woodhouse @andreawoodhouse]

...a reason why a man in London staring at a huge @elanatsui_art sculpture in the turbine hall of the @Tate feels awed by its fluidity and maybe disturbed by a feeling of loss. 3/5

[Andrea Fitri Woodhouse @andreawoodhouse]

There's a reason a woman reading Tolstoy in New York this century can see in his scenes of marriage flashes of her own, a reason my mother, a student in Indonesia in the 1960s, felt a sense of possibility and joy when listening to the Beatles... 2/5

[Andrea Fitri Woodhouse @andreawoodhouse]

The thing that this @Apple ad misunderstands is that unlike technology, human creativity isn't an endeavour where the old can be rendered obsolete by the new. 1/5

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create.

[Andrea Fitri Woodhouse @andreawoodhouse]

Did Development Economics lose its moral compass? This piece by Jishnu Das resonated with me - do take a moment and read it. https://t.co/LbOIn9cfCt

[Andrea Fitri Woodhouse @andreawoodhouse]

@Nay_Landell What an amazing story. Thank you for sharing it.

[Andrea Fitri Woodhouse @andreawoodhouse]

@nomhossain Ahhh ha ha! Would I really reveal myself as being definitely not British enough by saying that I've never even listened to it?

[Find me on bsky @colin-fraser.net @colin_fraser]

Oh my god relax you nerds, I didn’t build community notes for this

[My Life My Say @mylifemysay]

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