During the pandemic and the ensuing restrictions, the general picture in Denmark has been that older people have been much more worried about other people getting sick than they have been worried about themselves. Many were also worried about not becoming a burden during a difficult time for their families or anybody else. That was one of the insights from a large interdisciplinary research project at the University of Copenhagen that was launched shortly after the announcement in March 2020 of…
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Seeing the capital from up here, in the hills high above the rooftops, our perspective changes. The distance is small, but mentally, this is another world. A world with no mobile phone coverage. With no internet. A high place where the pandemic doesn’t seem to have reached.
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In the thick trees on the outskirts of Kisumu City in Kenya, a hut is as isolated as the 76-year-old woman who owns and lives in it alone. Without a child of her own, *Mary Atieno had called people "son" or "daughter" from the community she had built in church, a religious camaraderie that COVID-19 halted abruptly.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has put freedom of expression under pressure in many fields. Ole Reitov, a Danish veteran in protecting artists’ free voices, looks at new forms of cooperation with cautious optimism while authoritarianism is growing in the world. Today, Friday December 10th, a paper about ”Critical Voices – UNESCO’s instruments in Defence of Freedom of Expression of Artists, Journalists and Scientific Researchers” has been published in Paris. The paper is prepared by the Permanent…
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DDRN.dk earlier covered the intervention of Professor Maria Eriksson-Baaz, Uppsala University, Sweden, during the roundtable ”Development Thinking in Flux - Continuity and/or Change” at the DevRes 2021 Conference. In this interview, Maria Eriksson-Baaz responds in writing to a series of questions by DDRN.dk to elaborate her call for a critical focus on the aid industry and for decolonizing research.
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Despite the Global South being the breeding ground for research in development studies, there is a marked underrepresentation of researchers from the region in the field. This entails, the research risk of missing the local perspective—a phenomenon which some experts also label as ‘neo-colonialism' in Development Studies 
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