Kony 2012: “The rules have changed”

by David Meek, University of Georgia On 5 March 2012, the controversial NGO Invisible Children released the latest in their series of mini-documentaries about the plight of child soldiers in Uganda....
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Intervention – Kony 2012: Violence as evil, war as contest, intervention as benevolence

by Connor Cavanagh, The Nordic Africa Institute (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet), Uppsala, Sweden By now, you’ve seen or heard of the video. You’ve probably also read some of the debates (see, for...
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Cash crops in the wildlands: Different worlds are at stake

by Naomi Millner, University of Bristol “No-one is forced . This is an absolute lie. The people around Gambella are inhabiting the place in a very scattered manner” Ethiopian government (quoted...
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New enclosures of the carbon market, Part I: Sub-Saharan ‘land-grabs’ as accumulation by dispossession

by Naomi Millner, University of Bristol In late September 2011, news of another ‘land grabbing’ fiasco briefly hit the international headlines (Al Jazeera 2011; Lang 2011; Vidal 2011a; 2011b)...
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