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Elliot Rooney
@elliotrooney.bsky.social
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Water, development, political economy, governance. PhD researcher, water supply in Addis 🇪🇹 @ Water Security & Sustainable Dev't Hub, Newcastle U. + IWMI-Ethiopia. SPM/Researcher @armedgroups.bsky.social

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soasdevelopment.bsky.social
New article in World Development Perspectives by @carlosoya.bsky.social, Fekadu Nigussie Deresse and Christian Samen Otchia explores the paradox of job switching in a wage cartel.

Read here: shorturl.at/woaYi
@soasuni.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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dukepress.bsky.social
In "Occupied Refuge," @hannobrankamp.bsky.social challenges the view of refugee camps as indispensable safe havens, showing that humanitarian missions often function as militarized occupations that treat camp inhabitants as colonized subjects. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/IwyWW8p
Cover of Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya by Hanno Brankamp. The cover features a black-and-white photograph of a refugee camp with small structures that have corrugated metal roofs. In the foreground, a dirt ground stretches across the image with people walking, sitting, and standing near a vehicle. A vertical yellow line runs from top to bottom, dividing the composition. The title and subtitle appear in white text on the left side of the cover, with the author's name at the bottom right.
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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lottelydia.bsky.social
It's also a problem for academics based in the UK on visas who need to travel abroad as part of their research. E.g. Manikarnika Dutta and Asiya Islam -- both employed in the UK because of their expertise on India, then refused right to remain because they'd done too much research travel to India.
April 14, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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dukepress.bsky.social
Austin Zeiderman's #NewBook "Artery," relates the Magdalena River’s fraught past and uncertain future to global entanglements of race, nature, and capital. Read the introduction for free on our website now! #Geography #Anthropology
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Cover of Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River by Austin Zeiderman. Cover features pale and dark green eliptical shapes which could be fish or leaves. The title and subtitle are in a white box in the upper left and the author name in a white box in the lower right.
January 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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econgeo.bsky.social
The Inaugural Issue of Finance and Space @financeandspace.bsky.social is now online. Great move by the FINGEO network, who has been driving this all along...
@rsablog.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfas20/1/1
Finance and Space
Volume 1, Issue 1 of Finance and Space
www.tandfonline.com
January 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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erinsikorsky.bsky.social
Useful report on impact of flooding in Africa on stability and security this year. africacenter.org/spotlight/re...
Record Levels of Flooding in Africa
Extensive flooding in Africa due to higher-than-average rainfall has resulted in thousands of fatalities, millions displaced, and devastated infrastructure.
africacenter.org
December 12, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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kristoftiteca.bsky.social
Come and work with me/us! PhD under my supervision in the field of "politics and/or conflict around natural resources" in #Uganda and/or #DRC
December 4, 2024 at 2:54 PM
elliotrooney.bsky.social
Some previous work: what happened in Dar es Salaam after the disastrous water supply + sanitation PPP was cancelled in the early 2000s? Public-public partnerships are underexplored in the literature yet took place, both de jure and de facto, at various scales:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Failed privatisation in urban water utilities: Can PuPs pick up the pieces? Reviewing evidence from Dar es Salaam, 2005–2018
This paper looks at a viable response to failed privatisation in Dar es Salaam in the wake of aborted privatisation in 2005. The city’s experience hig…
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November 26, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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goodfellowtom.bsky.social
New article! Zhengli Huang, Meseret Desta and I argue that the drive to generate property ownership in urban Ethiopia has actually undermined homeownership:

'Homeownership and tenure (in)security in fractured urban peripheries: Ethiopia’s mass housing programme'

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Homeownership and tenure (in)security in fractured urban peripheries: Ethiopia’s mass housing programme
Ethiopia’s Integrated Housing Development Programme (IHDP) is among the most ambitious housing programmes in Africa, producing over 300,000 relatively low-cost condominiums. This article considers ...
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November 25, 2024 at 10:26 AM
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goodfellowtom.bsky.social
Three stars, but when you read the text it’s basically a four-star review. I found the film thought provoking and well worth watching.
November 26, 2024 at 10:44 AM
elliotrooney.bsky.social
What I'm up to: I'm at the business end of writing up my PhD. Based on >100 household interviews across 5 sites in Addis, and political economy analysis, it shows that, to understand how water gets where it needs to be in Addis, we need to look more at people's everyday actions than at pipes.
November 23, 2024 at 10:07 AM