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Eyob Balcha

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Academic researcher & practitioner

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Robtel Neajai Pailey @robtelneajai.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
As the #global #assault on #migrants intensifies, this deeply #personal #commentary I wrote in 2017 for Al Jazeera English about growing up #undocumented in the #UnitedStates is as relevant now as it was back then. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/201...
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Legal invisibility was the best thing to happen to me
I became an undocumented migrant at age six and it changed my life.
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Perivoli Africa Research Centre (PARC) @perivoliarc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Great #AfricaCharter writing workshop at #ASAA25, with real experiences of the 'inner layers' of the Africa Charter (epistemic justice, language, extraversion and the development frame) parc.bristol.ac.uk/2025/10/03/a... @divinefuh.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social
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An Africa Charter writing workshop
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Eyob Balcha @eyobbalcha.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
የ"ማሞዮብ ፖለቲካል ኢኮኖሚ" በኢትዮጲያ - The "Mamoyob Political Economy" in Ethiopia eyobafrkawi.substack.com/publish/post...
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Eyob Balcha @eyobbalcha.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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#AfricaClimateSummit2 I have at least four non-negotiable principles when engaging in debates about climate or climate change in Africa. ·         To what extent the debate is sufficiently informed ...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/08/2025
Where are the hard-working Americans who screamed, “They’re stealing our jobs”? You’re getting your wish. Immigrant workers aren’t showing up, and farm owners are hiring.
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Eyob Balcha @eyobbalcha.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Epistemic injustice is one of the systemic causes of Africa’s present-day disadvantaged position in pursuing sustainable dev't. @odi.global @globaldevinst.bsky.social @iobua.bsky.social @decolonialmatters.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social @folukeifejola.bsky.social www.un.org/osaa/news/ep...
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Epistemic Justice and Knowledge Sovereignty for Sustainable Development in Africa | Office of the Special Adviser on Africa
Epistemic injustice is one of the systemic causes of Africa’s present-day disadvantaged position in pursuing socio-economic justice for sustainable development.
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Eyob Balcha @eyobbalcha.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
In this piece, link.springer.com/article/10.1..., I argued that decolonisation is primarily about epistemic justice @odi.global @eadi.bsky.social @globaldevinst.bsky.social @iobua.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social @ecdpm.org @perivoliarc.bsky.social sky.social @decolonialmatters.bsky.social
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Eyob Balcha @eyobbalcha.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Thanks a lot, Matthew Write @lbc.co.uk youtu.be/ZduWL73njfE?...
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Labour to announce ‘biggest cuts since austerity' | LBC
YouTube video by LBC
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Eyob Balcha @eyobbalcha.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
In this piece, I argued that decolonising academic knowledge practices would be more fruitful if it takes epistemic issues seriously, focuses on both the knowledge and the knower and the power-mediated processes of academic knowledge production. @eadi.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Decentering Coloniality: Epistemic Justice, Development Studies and Structural Transformation - The European Journal of Development Research
The debate on decolonising development studies (DS) can be more fruitful if we focus on epistemic issues. Since mainstream DS has been essentially Eurocentric, where coloniality is normalised, I sugge...
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Eyob Balcha @eyobbalcha.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
#RandomCountry :-) :-)
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