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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Isolation and loneliness during the lockdown has caused depressions and anxiety, especially among young people – but others with psychiatric diagnoses have experienced less pressure and actually felt relieved
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‘’Our centre was empty then. No orders, no money’’, reflects Mariam, a 17 year -old girl from the Ntereso community in Northern Ghana, on how miserable life had been when the COVID emerged. An early school dropout, Mariam is one among the million rural women in Ghana who makes a living out of shea picking and shea butter processing.
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April 21st this year the museum by the name Louisiana that is located in Humlebæk, North of Copenhagen, opened a new exhibition by the artist and cinematographer Arthur Jafa. The exhibition continues until October 31st  2021. The title of the exhibition is “MagnumB” and it plays on the words; “magnum” (greatness) and “numb” (lack of emotion). I went to Louisiana to see it. It had been a couple of years since the last time I had visited Louisiana. So, when I took the trip, I was a bit unsure of…
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For almost a decade, in the center of the city of Copenhagen, a community has established themself in the area of «Fredens Havn» (Port of Peace) or " Pirate Port", as some have called it. These group of ships and floating modules are located as a maritime extension of Christiania, an alternative neighborhood in the city center of the Danish capital where people inhabit in a «free» or autonomous way. The "free city of Christiania" (Fristad) is known and recognized  for being self-governing and…
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