Myfanwy James
@myfanwyvjames.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at LSE International Development | Research on humanitarianism, conflict, development & health 🇨🇩
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Project MUSE - Looking for the Local: The Politics of Humanitarian Recruitment in DRC
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New article 'Looking for the local: The Politics of Humanitarian Recruitment in DRC' reveals how aid agencies can fuel social tensions when the 'local' aid category interacts with existing discourses around belonging, authority, and territory muse.jhu.edu/pub/35/artic...
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Humanitarian agencies have been urged to ‘localise’, shifting power to local actors and addressing North/South imbalances. But what does local really mean? Dr Myfanwy James explores this question for the LSE ID Blog
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The politics of local humanitarian recruitment in DRC - LSE International Development
There have been growing calls over the last decade for humanitarian agencies to ‘localise’— to address unjust and unequal power relations in the contemporary system by transferring power to local pers...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Humanitarian agencies have been urged to ‘localise’, shifting power to local actors and addressing North/South imbalances. But what does local really mean? Dr Myfanwy James explores this question for the LSE ID Blog
blogs.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
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The New Humanitarian has partnered with five slam poets from eastern DRC, commissioning original works that confront the reality of war and the resilience of Congolese communities facing a brutal insurgency by the M23 rebel group.
Hope and resistance: Slam poets capture the weight of war in DR Congo
These powerful new poems examine the escalating crisis in the east.
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October 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The New Humanitarian has partnered with five slam poets from eastern DRC, commissioning original works that confront the reality of war and the resilience of Congolese communities facing a brutal insurgency by the M23 rebel group.
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While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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October 13, 2025 at 5:38 AM
While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
New article 'Looking for the local: The Politics of Humanitarian Recruitment in DRC' reveals how aid agencies can fuel social tensions when the 'local' aid category interacts with existing discourses around belonging, authority, and territory muse.jhu.edu/pub/35/artic...
Project MUSE - Looking for the Local: The Politics of Humanitarian Recruitment in DRC
muse.jhu.edu
October 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
New article 'Looking for the local: The Politics of Humanitarian Recruitment in DRC' reveals how aid agencies can fuel social tensions when the 'local' aid category interacts with existing discourses around belonging, authority, and territory muse.jhu.edu/pub/35/artic...
Reposted by Myfanwy James
You may already have seen her on the BBC this morning, but journalists and policy experts looking for experts on digital ID cards - you need to speak to @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social
This is a post from earlier this year
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This is a post from earlier this year
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The Britcard – progressive or concerning? | British Politics and Policy at LSE
The Government is considering Labour Together's proposal to introduce mandatory digital ID cards in an effort to tackle irregular migration. There are problems with that.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
September 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
You may already have seen her on the BBC this morning, but journalists and policy experts looking for experts on digital ID cards - you need to speak to @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social
This is a post from earlier this year
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
This is a post from earlier this year
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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We asked Sudanese people to explain what the war is about. What emerges is clear: there is no such thing as a war about nothing. continent.substack.com/p/is-the-sud...
August 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
We asked Sudanese people to explain what the war is about. What emerges is clear: there is no such thing as a war about nothing. continent.substack.com/p/is-the-sud...
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Latest publication from Dr Myfanwy James which explores how the inclusion of pregnant women in an Ebola vaccine trial in Goma, DRC, sparked local rumors that reflected broader ethical concerns and historical anxieties
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Medical Anthropology Quarterly | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library
The position of pregnant women in clinical research remains a topic of international ethical debate. Yet, the reflections of actual and potential trial participants, including pregnant women themselv...
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July 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Latest publication from Dr Myfanwy James which explores how the inclusion of pregnant women in an Ebola vaccine trial in Goma, DRC, sparked local rumors that reflected broader ethical concerns and historical anxieties
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New article on Ebola in DRC, 'Rumor as ethical vernacular'. I argue that the womb became a site to discuss broader biopolitical anxieties about collective survival, but that rumors also became a vehicle for ethical debate amid uncertainty. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
New article on Ebola in DRC, 'Rumor as ethical vernacular'. I argue that the womb became a site to discuss broader biopolitical anxieties about collective survival, but that rumors also became a vehicle for ethical debate amid uncertainty. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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‘Achille Mbembe warns us that the condition of the colonies is rapidly becoming the condition of all of subaltern humanity.’
Kevin Okoth:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Kevin Okoth:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Kevin Okoth · The Pessimist’s Optimist: Beyond the Postcolony
Achille Mbembe is the pessimist’s optimist: he delivers a devastating analysis of the contemporary moment while never...
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July 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
‘Achille Mbembe warns us that the condition of the colonies is rapidly becoming the condition of all of subaltern humanity.’
Kevin Okoth:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Kevin Okoth:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...