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Can we understand global health?
I have bee n reading and enjoying Alanna Shaikh’s blog Blood and Milk lately, and and today she has another pithy post up on Why you can’t understand global health. I agree with her basic premise...
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Sunday Reader #5: Honduras, Development and an Espresso Xing
Although we are back in New Zealand I have been trying to follow the continuing political events in Honduras, although it is somewhat depressing. Unsurprisingly the coup goes on, and coup participants...
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Finally, a research update
From my research blog: Hi from New Zealand! We have been back in New Zealand for a month now, have settled in our new home and are now well immersed back into the university routine so it really is...
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Inspiration
Some quotes that are inspiring me as I start the writing journey: Might it be possible to use other scholarly skills, including the ability to tell a story that both acknowledges imperial power and...
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Experiments for development?
I just watched the TED talk by Emily Duflo, a French economist who believes it is possible to know which development solutions work and which don’t – by using randomised experimental trials to test...
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Odyssey | Fresh-Brewed Research
Fair trade coffee serves up benefits for Guatemalan farmers While I don’t have much time to blog lately, given then theme of this blog I couldn’t not put a link to this article. This is a research...
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“More blessed to give than to receive…”
Just another quick link, this time to Tales from the Hood. This post on American Culture 101 sums up very nicely a theme I have been seen over and over in my research and which I find quite disturbing...
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One year ago today…
After spending a day buried deep in writing about the political and economic history of Honduras for my thesis, the last thing I really feel like doing this evening is more writing. And yet as the sun...
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2010 in review
As is obvious from the stats below, I neglected this blog in 2010, as I concentrated on my thesis and my family. This is likely to continue into 2011, as I work on completing the thesis – hopefully by...
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Pensive
Just a quick link to my new Tumblr blog. Well, not so much a blog as a space to throw links to stuff I like or find interesting, with the odd comment or two. As I noted in my last post, ‘real’...
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