Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Details of a candlelight vigil being held in Durham next week in response to the recent Nepal-Tibet flood. The vigil provides an opportunity to remember those affected and show our support and solidarity. 000
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Open letter from Irish sportspeople calling for #boycottIsrael notes “the Ireland we want represented is the one that remembers its roots in anti-colonial and anti-imperial resistance” 🇮🇪 #StopTheGame www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...bbc.co.ukRepublic of Ireland: Irish sportspeople urge men's football team to boycott Israel gameMore than 160 Irish sportspeople sign an open letter to urge the Republic of Ireland senior men's team to refuse to participate in their upcoming Nations League games against Israel. 001
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Really sad to hear about Glen Hansard's passing. I've always loved his music, "Bird of Sorrow" was a particular favourite. Rest in peace. #GlenHansard youtu.be/uIGCpWi5dIs?...youtu.beGlen Hansard - Bird of SorrowYouTube video by Long Man 030
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Forthcoming workshop in Durham on ‘Historicising the China-Africa relationship’, taking place on August 26th. 062
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 10/03/2026new book chapter!... 📖 ‘Reimagining disaster preparedness in Nepal’ We focus on a pan-Himalayan ritual known as the 𝘉𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘫𝘢 as an articulation of Indigenous disaster theory and disaster prevention active in the Himalayan region, specifically within Nepal. www.routledge.com/Reimagining-...routledge.comReimagining Disasters: Voices in the PluriverseReimagining Disasters builds on the momentum gained by the 2019 Disaster Studies Manifesto, which aims to inspire and inform more respectful, reciprocal and genuine relationships between home and visi... 061
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Força, Mambas! 🇲🇿 www.theguardian.com/football/202...theguardian.comAfcon roundup: Mozambique stun Gabon to end 40-year wait for winFaisal Bangal, Geny Catamo and Diogo Calila scored to earn Mozambique a 3-2 victory against Gabon to give them their first win in 17 matches at the tournament 030
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 19/12/2025This looks like a really important and timely resource with varied perspectives from different backgrounds, disciplines and geographies. Looking forward to reading! 040
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Excited to share a new open access article that provides a critical, policy-relevant & geographically grounded analysis of Mozambique's energy transitions. Written with Lorraine Howe, @joshkirshner.bsky.social & Carlos Shenga, just published in Applied Geography www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comUneven development and the geographies of energy transition in MozambiqueIn Mozambique, sustainable energy access is an increasing priority for a diverse range of actors seeking to improve livelihoods and stimulate economic… 082
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 31/10/2025“If we are honest about Britain’s place in the global strategic landscape today, the idea that it is a prime espionage target stretches credulity” 040
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Further reason to watch this stunning indictment of military homophobia: www.thewrap.com/pentagon-boo...thewrap.comPentagon Slams Netflix's 'Woke Garbage' Gay Military Series 'Boots,' Vows to Restore 'Warrior Ethos' to the MilitaryPentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson says the U.S. military does not condone Netflix's "ideological agenda" depicted in "Boots" 020
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Interesting article by Anek Rajbhandari on the mental health impacts on survivors of climate induced disasters: nepalitimes.com/news/the-uns...nepalitimes.comThe unseen wounds of climate disasters 040
Reposted by Marcus PowerDuncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 23/09/2025The artist Sana Ginwalla has created an online photo archive based on 1000 uncollected negatives, slides and prints that she found in the attic of Lusaka’s oldest photo studios. What a great initiative: www.zambiabelonging.comzambiabelonging.comZambia BelongingA counter-archive of found and crowd-sourced photographs from Zambia’s past. 02212
Reposted by Marcus PowerTIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 17/09/2025New in TIBG! Geography in the World, part 3: Area Studies Han Cheng & @deensharp.bsky.social's collection draws together authors from Egypt, Singapore, China, South Africa & Russia to explore non-Western geography's relationship with Area Studies. Read all papers here ⬇️ tinyurl.com/5n72yt46 1138
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 17/09/2025youtu.be/dhuC7zQRNvc?...youtu.beGenZ hopes for an inclusive new Nepal: State of Southasia #32YouTube video by Himal Southasian 020
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 16/09/2025‘Washington losing primacy, Beijing preparing to take its place. For Africa, however, this framing is unsatisfactory. It risks reducing the continent to a spectator in a drama staged by others’: 021
Reposted by Marcus PowerMattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 08/09/2025 📚BOOK LAUNCH 📚 We’re delighted to announce the publication of 🌍Technoscientific Globalisation from Below🌎 Open access&free to download via @matteringpress.bsky.social www.matteringpress.org/books/techno... Edited by Mathieu Quet, Koichi Kameda, Jessica Pourraz & Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankarmatteringpress.orgTechnoscientific Globalisation from Below 1144
Reposted by Marcus PowerDon't Gas Africa @dontgasafrica.bsky.social · 16/09/2025We welcome much of the #AddisDeclaration, but let’s be clear: “transition fuel” is too often code for gas. Gas is not a bridge, it’s a dead end. #ACS2 002
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Pranaya Rana’s excellent explainer on everything that happened this week in Nepal, including the first woman prime minister in its history, and asks important questions for the future of the country: www.himalmag.com/politics/nep...himalmag.comNepal’s staggering journey from Gen Z protests to new governmentNepal’s staggering journey from Gen Z protests to new government 020
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Interesting claims & counter claims around Nepal’s relations to China’s Global Security Initiative (GSI) following PM’s visit to China: kathmandupost.com/national/202...kathmandupost.comNepal officials reject Chinese claim on GSI‘Why should we issue a statement when we’ve not even discussed GSI and GCI?’ says a Nepali delegate in China. 020
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Great to attend an event yesterday in Kathmandu on the geopolitical dilemmas created for #Nepal around the Lipulekh pass and the territorial disputes with India. Insightful comments from speakers Sudheer Sharma & Rajib Neupane 051
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Good to be engaged in a thoughtful and enriching discussion today with Rupak Sapkota, former Foreign Affairs Adviser to the PM of Nepal. Our conversation focused on the dynamics around Nepal’s co-operation with foreign partners, delving into wider global and regional drivers and dynamics. 050
Reposted by Marcus PowerJack Taggart @jacktaggart.bsky.social · 14/08/2025📣 New article w/ @iliasalami.bsky.social & @tomchodor.bsky.social on the return of industrial policy globally @globalpolicy.bsky.social. Does this signal a 'New Washington Consensus'? And does the return of industrial policy 'rebuild the ladder' of economic development? 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/yk2wvttc 1/12 32113
Reposted by Marcus PowerFrancis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · 07/08/2025New article🚨 Demilitarizing Conservation A labour of love w L Lunstrum @ashavin.bsky.social A Dutta @esthermarijnen.bsky.social T Mushonga F Matose For a more robustly care-full conservation Demilitarization based on ethics/politics of care/nonviolence @pollenetwork.bsky.social shorturl.at/Wsl9mtandfonline.comDemilitarizing ConservationMany national parks and other protected areas (PAs) are experiencing an intensification of military actors, logics, and partnerships across the globe. This amounts to one of the most consequential ... 0105
Reposted by Marcus PowerJessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Over the past 2 decades, China has become Laos’s top investor, main creditor, and 2nd-largest trade partner. In a new report, @profjulietlu.bsky.social and I unpack Chinese investment across four land-intensive sectors: agriculture & plantations, mining, infrastructure & SEZs. tinyurl.com/kw5vteem 163
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 15/07/2025“I call for a decolonial consciousness that interrogates the historical roots of marginalization in order to reconceptualize, reimagine, and rewrite dominant discourses on resilience in Africa” 062
Reposted by Marcus PowerGeography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 14/07/2025The UK Alliance for Disaster Research conference will take place 4-5 September 2025. It will be hosted by the @ihrr.bsky.social at Durham Uni and is titled “Pathways to Practice and Resilience: UK Interdisciplinary Hazard and Disaster Research on the National and Global Stage”: tinyurl.com/62mfc7pw 042
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 13/07/2025As well as some loss of life the severe flooding in Rasuwa in #Nepal has caused damage to a number of key infrastructures of China-Nepal co-operation. Interesting to note the militarised discourse around talk of deploying rescue operations on a ‘war footing’: kathmandupost.com/national/202... 120
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 12/07/2025River basins of Africa 🌍 A stunning aerial visual showing the continent’s waterways. According to UNEP, there are 63 transboundary river basins in Africa, covering 64% of the continent’s land area. #weekendvibes #water #africa #rivers #climatechange Credit: Grasshopper Geography 051
Reposted by Marcus PowerTansy Hoskins 🍉 @tansyhoskins.org · 09/06/2025Just published a new investigation into textile waste on @ecoage.bsky.social with my colleague Arun Karki in Nepal: Sandwiched between manufacturing powerhouses China and India, Nepal faces a relentless influx of cheap, toxic fast fashion exports: eco-age.com/nepal-the-fr...eco-age.comNepal: The Front Line of the Fast Fashion Crisis – Eco Age 083
Reposted by Marcus PowerJustin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 15/06/2025In Luanda for the launch of this edited volume on #Angola after Dos Santos, produced in record time in Portuguese & English with chapters by Angolan & foreign scholars. Both versions in the link. My chapter is on the politics of public memory 50 years after independence. www.cmi.no/publications...cmi.noAngola after dos Santos: An anthology on continuity and changeAs Angola celebrates its 50th anniversary as an independent nation, it is timely to provide an assessment of the state of political, s... 0173
Reposted by Marcus PowerRoland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Here a short blog sumarising a chapter that Emma Hutchison and I wrote and that has now come out: “Humanitarian Photography” in Allbeson (ed) Picturing Peace (Bloomsbury 2024). This has been in the making since 2018 but we hope it remains relevant. www.rolandbleiker.com/blog/humanit...rolandbleiker.comHumanitarian Photography: From Mediating Suffering to Visualising Peace — Roland BleikerThis is a blog summary of an essay that Emma Hutchison and Roland Bleiker wrote and that has now come out after Emma’s passing: a chapter on Humanitarian Photography for Tom Allbeson, Pippa Oldfield a... 092
Reposted by Marcus PowerJoshua Kirshner @joshkirshner.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Happy to share an article on green electrification in Mozambique, just published online today... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comHarnessing the sun – addressing sociotechnical barriers to off-grid solar power deployment in MozambiqueMozambique has substantial solar power potential (23,000GWe) yet only 83MWe of installed capacity (representing 2% of the total 3623MWe generation capacity). Meanwhile, 44% of the population has el... 182
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 06/06/2025New CODESRIA bulletin themed around ‘Mozambique: Reflections by Intellectuals on Post-Electoral Violence’: codesria.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?...codesria.us19.list-manage.comNo. 2 (2025): CODESRIA Bulletin, No 2, 2025: NÚMERO ESPECIAL MOÇAMBIQUE - Visão de alguns intelectuais moçambicanos sobre a violência pós-eleitoral | CODESRIA Bulletin 010
Reposted by Marcus PowerEADI @eadi.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Can Postdevelopment actually be understood as being within the scope of development theories, or is it something completely different? Aram Ziai explores in our latest blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2245developmentresearch.euIs Postdevelopment a Theory of Development? Situating Postdevelopment in Social TheoryBy Aram Ziai Four decades after its beginnings, postdevelopment (PD) has become an established approach in development theory. Its core claim that we should ‘reject the entire paradigm of developme… 042
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Ruth First seminar event at The Lindisfarne centre in Durham on June 25th, 5-7pm, can be watched online too: 011
Reposted by Marcus PowerDavid Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 01/06/2025"It has not just been a travel document, but often a declaration of hope in a better future for those who left Ireland’s shores, or a reclaiming of identity by many of those in the Irish diaspora today" @markhennessy.bsky.social on 100 yrs of the Irish passport www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...irishtimes.comThe Irish passport at 100: Not just a travel document but a declaration of hope and of reclaiming identityA new exhibition traces the Irish passport’s journey from independence to biometric holograms 011
Reposted by Marcus PowerMike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Huge win. Ecuadorians have voted in a historic referendum to halt the development of all new oilwells in the Yasuní national park in the Amazon, one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet: buff.ly/UmLwia3 Protect people and the planet. #ActOnClimate 112233
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Ngũgĩ’s work was incredible, so many insights, his razor sharp satire was so richly provocative, he was such an influence on so many. He will be sorely missed. I love this photo of him as a student at Leeds in the 1960s: 061
Reposted by Marcus PowerJack Taggart @jacktaggart.bsky.social · 14/05/2025CfP for the 5th Global Policy North workshop at the University of Edinburgh and hosted by @policyrelevant.bsky.social. Submit your abstracts here and details below: tinyurl.com/awckrjjk 011
Reposted by Marcus PowerJack Taggart @jacktaggart.bsky.social · 02/05/20258/ The result? A development finance landscape shaped not by neat convergence or competition between donors, but by productive incoherence—an ambiguous space of constraint and possibility. 101
Reposted by Marcus PowerJack Taggart @jacktaggart.bsky.social · 02/05/20257/ Mozambique presents a hybrid case. CDF supported a shift toward ‘mega-project developmentalism’ in extractives and infrastructure. Yet this hasn’t translated into greater policy autonomy—debt burdens & elite capture persist. 111
Reposted by Marcus PowerJack Taggart @jacktaggart.bsky.social · 02/05/20256/ Heavily aid-dependent, Malawi has used CDF to diversify financing, particularly for infrastructure. But deeper constraints persist—policy space remains fragmented, shaped by donor preferences and institutional limitations. 101
Reposted by Marcus PowerJack Taggart @jacktaggart.bsky.social · 02/05/20255/ Ethiopia stands out for its longstanding policy autonomy. Leveraging geopolitical importance & strong state capacity, Ethiopia uses CDF to reinforce its developmental model—not replace it. CDF complements rather than drives its policy space. 101
Reposted by Marcus PowerJack Taggart @jacktaggart.bsky.social · 02/05/20254/ Drawing on an exploratory elite survey and case studies of Ethiopia, Malawi, and Mozambique, we show how countries navigate this fragmented landscape—not passively receive it. 101
Reposted by Marcus PowerJack Taggart @jacktaggart.bsky.social · 02/05/20253/ We argue that the internal political economy, historical legacies, and global structural positioning of recipient states matter far more than donor intentions and shifts in the external financing environment. These domestic factors mediate how external financing is internalised and acted upon. 101
Reposted by Marcus PowerJack Taggart @jacktaggart.bsky.social · 02/05/20252/ Rather than triggering wholesale transformation, Chinese development finance contributes to incremental, context-specific adaptations. Policy space doesn’t simply expand or contract—it shifts unevenly across countries and sectors. 111
Reposted by Marcus PowerJack Taggart @jacktaggart.bsky.social · 02/05/20251/ How does Chinese development finance affect policy space across Sub-Saharan Africa? In our new article in the Journal of International Development, Han Cheng, @marcusjpower.bsky.social and I explore this through Grabel’s concept of productive incoherence. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/jid....doi.orgChinese Development Finance and African Policy Space: Towards Productive Incoherence?How does Chinese Development Finance influence perceptions of policy space across Sub-Saharan Africa? This paper employs Grabel's concept of ‘productive incoherence’ to both describe the ‘new develop... 133
Reposted by Marcus PowerJacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 09/04/2025The Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène earned his reputation as the father of African cinema with a series of brilliant movies. Socialist and anti-colonial politics had a profound influence on Sembène, who was also one of Africa’s great novelists.jacobin.comSenegal’s Ousmane Sembène Was a True Cinematic RevolutionaryThe Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène earned his reputation as the father of African cinema with a series of brilliant movies. Socialist and anti-colonial politics had a profound influence on Sembèn... 0142