Betting on Famine; Why The World Still Goes Hungry

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Woven with madness like the deforestation which Plato described of the Athens felling their forest for ship building: "Moreover, the land reaped the benefit of the annual rainfall, not as now losing the water which flows off the bare earth into the sea" (Timaeus and Critas) twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/…
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@Welshentag @HigherEdFutures @CHERELancasterU @echer_net @antipodeonline @BC_CIHE @isaac_kamola @USSbriefs @ucu @GovAcLife @insidehighered @CHEPS_UT @GdnUniversities Increasingly these behavioural propensities are codified into technologies. At the moment I am developing a piece of work around 'institution as algorithm'. Anyway, many thanks for pinging me on your work
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@Welshentag @HigherEdFutures @CHERELancasterU @echer_net @antipodeonline @BC_CIHE @isaac_kamola @USSbriefs @ucu @GovAcLife @insidehighered @CHEPS_UT @GdnUniversities Yes, the compulsion to 'quality control' or 'administrate' creates power differentials that generate ingroups and outgroups often on the whimsy of individuals who set themselves as paladins of authority. Norbert Elias examines this kind of behavioural motif. I will enjoy reading!
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@Welshentag @HigherEdFutures @CHERELancasterU @echer_net @antipodeonline @BC_CIHE @isaac_kamola @USSbriefs @ucu @GovAcLife @insidehighered @CHEPS_UT @GdnUniversities Any chance you could email me a copy of your paper please. I am not wanting to spend so much time jumping through the ResearchGate's proofing process i.e.: 'Please give proof of your research work such as a file or link, and a message to explain the proof you're providing.'
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Impoverishment, Downsourcing and Buying Your Way Out: Action Research in Context - some thoughts to explore the recurring inequities and impoverishment of specific peoples... raggeduniversity.co.uk/2018/01/10/act…
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@Welshentag @HigherEdFutures @CHERELancasterU @echer_net @antipodeonline @BC_CIHE @isaac_kamola @USSbriefs @ucu @GovAcLife @insidehighered @CHEPS_UT @GdnUniversities Ha ha, very much wanting to read your paper - sounds very good. The message I have got from ResearchGate is "Request Pending - We've received your request and will let you know as soon as possible whether it has been approved."
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RT @GretaThunberg: Think of your own children when you read this.
Will you be the first generation ever not willing to sacrifice your own c…
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@eaj24 :) Ah yes, that is a great one! Humour, a tell tale sign of a complex relationship of feeling and interaction. Aristotle considered wit a valuable part of conversation and dialoguing.
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Betting on Famine; Why The World Still Goes Hungry