What Bebop Taught Me About Change
Nate Rabe looks at the rise of Bebop to learn about how to bring about social change. Continue reading What Bebop Taught Me About Change
Category: Culture
Big problems need lots of little solutions
Aidan Craney, PhD candidate at La Trobe University, discusses some of the challenges in providing quick solutions to complex problems. For the better part of the last six months I have been between Fiji and Solomon Islands, conducting fieldwork for my PhD. My research focuses on questions of youth livelihoods in the Pasifika region, where a youth bulge is prevalent. Roughly 20 per cent of the … Continue reading Big problems need lots of little solutions
Why culture matters for international development Part 2
Deborah Rhodes is an independent consultant in international aid and development specialising in cross-cultural contexts. Part 1 of this post presents a frame of reference to understand differences in cultural values, reflecting the significance of cultural values for the behaviour of people, including leaders, as well as the nature of communities and organisations, and the prospects for developmental change. Here, Deborah examines some implications of … Continue reading Why culture matters for international development Part 2
Why culture matters for international development Part 1
Deborah Rhodes is an independent consultant in international aid and development specialising in cross-cultural contexts. In this two-part post, she discusses why culture matters for international development. In this post she suggests a different lens might reveal different understandings about the nature of development changes. We all know the power of looking at something through a different lens. Polarised sunglasses can make a cloudy sky seem … Continue reading Why culture matters for international development Part 1
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