Matt Baillie Smith
@mattbailliesmith.bsky.social
Professor of Global Development & Dean of Research Culture, Northumbria University UK.
Research voluntary labour and: humanitarianism; global development; climate action; citizenship.
www.mattbailliesmith.com
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/matt-baillie-smith
Research voluntary labour and: humanitarianism; global development; climate action; citizenship.
www.mattbailliesmith.com
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/matt-baillie-smith
Good point! Resourcing broader participation is key but also, some event formats are skewed to only recognising some people as 'experts'. It's a bit old, but we have explored this a bit in relation to Indian NGO activists' participation in global civic spaces: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Disconnections and exclusions: professionalization, cosmopolitanism and (global?) civil society
In this article, we address the ways in which theories and practices of cosmopolitanism and professionalization intersect in the sphere of global civil society. We emphasize the experiences of grassr...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Good point! Resourcing broader participation is key but also, some event formats are skewed to only recognising some people as 'experts'. It's a bit old, but we have explored this a bit in relation to Indian NGO activists' participation in global civic spaces: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...