Happy and very honoured to receive the 2023 Fonnesbech PhD Prize 🥳 I look forward to continuing my research Centre for Business and Development Studies @ CBS, Copenhagen Business School and DIIS Denmark with great colleagues!

Very excited that this important 2022 paper by our own Lisa Ann Richey and Sofie Elbæk Henriksen on Google's efforts to use 'tech for good' is now out Open Access. Read it here: research.cbs.dk/en/publication…

We are still working today on Commodifying Compassion on digital do-gooding led by Dr Maha Sofie Elbæk Henriksen Serious discussants Stefano Ponte kapital köle Adam Fejerskov roberta hawkins @texasinafrica Robin Steedman Keep your eyes out for the next steps 🤓

Real talk for public scholarship from @texasinafrica: 'You cannot talk about 'imaginaries' or 'necropolitics' or 'stakeholders' - normal people don't talk like that. It's painful for you, but [the alternative] is more painful for the reader.' #coco2023

Blockchain for development, argues Dan Brockington, assumes that development needs are out of sight, out of mind. Technology 'helps' by making them 'visible' but they were always visible to the people living them, and are now only visible to machines. Is that progress? #coco2023

If further evidence were needed that 'ethical consumption' is a contradiction-in-terms, Lisa Ann Richey is explaining how Commodifying Compassion came across a luxury fashion brand advertising *as ethical* that all its products are 'Made In Prison.' 😬 #coco2023

Celebrity strategic partnerships are at the core of ‘Commodifying Compassion’. Dr. Alexandra C Budabin at the #CoCo2023 final conference. Superheroes saving the world. Lisa Ann Richey Dan Brockington Mette Fog Olwig Dr Maha

'I have never seen people more interested in the Sustainable Development Goals as I have since I came to the business school - that's because [business for development] is now mainstream.' - Lisa Ann Richey #coco2023

It’s happening!! #CoCo2023 final conference Copenhagen Business School Centre for Business and Development Studies @ CBS Commodifying Compassion. Commodifying Compassion: Implications of Turning People and Humanitarian Causes into Marketable Things Lisa Ann Richey

All good things come to an end. Bittersweet to be at the final conference celebrating Commodifying Compassion, and hopefully launching new investigations into corporate misadventures to come. #coco2023

Someone just screamed with delight during the @EveryHumanTZ tea break when seeing that a scholar of #Congo who wrote 10 books (Kevin C. Dunn) wrote a very generous review of ours Dr. Alexandra C Budabin U of MN Press Asante sana. academic.oup.com/psq/advance-ar…

Check out this great book review of Batman Saves the Congo at Political Science Quarterly by Kevin C. Dunn
Dr. Alexandra C Budabin Lisa Ann Richey

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Two more weeks to submit abstracts for our workshop on new research on humanitarianism in the digital age.
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This book is a story of white saviourism and how it connects with the political economy of minerals in the DRC Kasper Hoffmann on Vogel’s ‘Conflict Minerals Inc’ Centre for Business and Development Studies @ CBS CBS Sustainability Centre Lisa Ann Richey

The devil is in the detail, it’s in the methods. Lots of footnotes, lots of fieldwork, lots of interviews and participant observation. There is a lot of work in this book. Lisa Ann Richey on Vogel’s Conflict Minerals Inc

Shyamain Wickramashinge discussing Christoph Vogel’s book ‘Conflict Minerals Inc’ Centre for Business and Development Studies @ CBS Copenhagen Business School. She draws parallels from Sri Lanka’s experience with conflict and peacemaking attempts to argue that the DR Congo situation is not unique. Lisa Ann Richey Kasper Hoffmann

CALL FOR PAPERS: join the @CoCoResearch closing conference May 2-3. One day of panels on what we've found about business/NGO partnerships, one day workshopping new research on humanitarianism in the digital age. Workshop abstracts due Feb 28. commodifyingcompassion.com/_files/ugd/ef7…

Join this exciting event around Conflict Minerals, Inc. by Christoph N. Vogel hosted by CoCo and Centre for Business and Development Studies @ CBS.

Find the programme and register here: cbs.nemtilmeld.dk/626/

Lisa Ann Richey Kasper Hoffmann

'Thoroughly researched and often laugh-out-loud funny, “Batman Saves the Congo” is a critically important look at a growing and under-examined — and frequently absurd — segment of the aid industry.' U of MN Press Dr. Alexandra C Budabin CBS WIRE Centre for Business and Development Studies @ CBS washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…

In Pakistan, corporate 'marketing campaigns steal the vocabulary of the women’s movement while drowning out the voices of the women they represent, twisting their narrative to present capitalism as the solution rather than the problem.' 👏 Shiza Malik twitter.com/ShaziaZRafi/st…