April 18, 2023
From centralized oil regime to decentralized artisanal gold-mine-based political economy. A sketchmap of Sudan's political economy as a background to the recent violence there. tinyurl.com/ywt5ea8d https://t.co/CiFiFFBUjN
From centralized oil regime to decentralized artisanal gold-mine-based political economy. A sketchmap of Sudan's political economy as a background to the recent violence there. tinyurl.com/ywt5ea8d https://t.co/CiFiFFBUjN
@whiteafrican Isn’t it simply fascinating!!!! Dramatic, moving and important, obs but also fascinating.
@toddntucker I wonder whether the conversion framing is helpful here. Let them remain deniers. Best of all Let’s not bring it up. Let’s just complicate their preferences with cheap energy and good jobs.
RT @its_mccarthy: This article at @CritSoc by @yige_dong is the first ethnography of Foxconn in Zhengzhou, the world's largest iPhone plant…
@postdiscipline There you go! And then I favor being tough with feedback and comments but lenient with grades so they aren’t disadvantaged after all the work and learning they’ve done.
RT @stanleystravels: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-20… Fabulous article (as always) by @adam_tooze on the little-known role that artisanal gold mini…
Khartoum's elite loved oil revenues they could rule at a distance in enclave production in South. But they knew it couldnt last. So they prepared Plan B: Mining gold. It got huge but not as they expected! Chartbook 209 on background to Sudan violence. tinyurl.com/ywt5ea8d https://t.co/JrSTrb5KyD
RT @toddntucker: Fascinating piece. Unlike other borrowers, – the guarantees of the EC aren't backed by a revenue stream, – there's a lo…
@postdiscipline Know what you mean. But If it is competition at all, isn’t it positive selection? Don’t you end up with the students you want to be teaching?
RT @Guay_JG: There is a biblical flood of clean energy waiting to be unleashed across the US Time to break the dam https://t.co/Vct1bhvvP3
RT @Bakhunin: Er, why is Sudanese scholarship on Sudan so damn overlooked? The list in this tweet from @matnashed is a good start: indeed,…
RT @Bakhunin: I’d especially underline work by Magdi El Gizouli @StillSUDAN on “market authoritarianism” and centre-periphery dynamics (not…
RT @BertholdSeliger: @nellinelke @adam_tooze heute in seinem Substack: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-20…
"This is our variety of electrification" I swear I did not contrive this. It was the AI wot did it. WEIRD world! https://t.co/jDGvWgxkf3
Sudan on your mind? It should be. For some relief and (at times melancholy beauty) check out Noori & His Dorpa Band (live @Le Guess Who? 2022) courtesy of the fablous @vrijegeluiden platform. youtube.com/watch?v=7dNTMU…
Artisanal mining in Africa is often presented through dramatic images as the epitome of backwardness harnessed to global North modernity. But the mining itself is a frontier of radical change unthinkable without gizmos like metal detectors and cellphones. tinyurl.com/ywt5ea8d https://t.co/LQXJv0Ih8R
RT @lajohnstondr: The aging of farmers and its challenges for labor-intensive agriculture in China: A perspective on farmland transfer plan…
Funny thing about realism is that if you take it seriously you actually have to take values/ideals very much into account! What does security actually mean for Taiwanese? twitter.com/TheNatlInteres…
RT @CrisisGroup: « On est déjà dans le scénario du pire et on ira vers des événements plus dramatiques encore » @alanboswell s'exprime sur…
@hughclaffey Think ive gone as far as I dare for now with art "curation" on Chartbook Top Links 😉
RT @nickpdonovan: @adam_tooze The actual spreadsheet of RSF procurement is in this nerdy follow-up: globalwitness.org/en/blog/how-th…
RT @AgatheDemarais: 🔌⚡️🔋 – Global energy transition will lead to global boom in electricity demand • Electricity currently makes up 20% of…
RT @spignal: Morocco's absent king and the Rasputinesque influence of kickboxing criminal twins from Germany. I swear I'm not making this u…
An expanding frontier of artisanal gold mining has been rippling across Sahel region for a decade. Origins are in Darfur, Sudan = background condition for the power struggle currently raging in Khartoum. Chartbook 209 joins dots from gold to guns tinyurl.com/ywt5ea8d https://t.co/3ixLV45y1e
@nickpdonovan Damn, this is great! Wish I had found this report. Will incorporate into a follow up, if and when. thanks.
RT @toddntucker: For more on this political geography, read this post by @Sunnysmalhotra and me. rooseveltinstitute.org/2022/11/30/cle…
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