Adam Moe Fejerskov

What happens when a long-dominant world order begins to shift and new centres of power arise to take its place? Another Dawn charts the acceleration towards an increasingly multipolar system, examining how geopolitical realignment, decolonization debates and the growing influence of Global South institutions are reshaping the current political landscape. Rejecting simplistic narratives of victimhood or romanticized portrayals of solidarity, it showcases resistance and self-affirmation movements across the Global South and highlights the diverse strategies through which it is influencing the future of development, diplomacy and global order. This book offers a compelling vision of the tensions and possibilities of our post-Western era.

What happens when a long-dominant world order begins to shift and new centres of power arise to take its place? Another Dawn charts the acceleration towards an increasingly multipolar system, examining how geopolitical realignment, decolonization debates and the growing influence of Global South institutions are reshaping the current political landscape. Rejecting simplistic narratives of victimhood or romanticized portrayals of solidarity, it showcases resistance and self-affirmation movements across the Global South and highlights the diverse strategies through which it is influencing the future of development, diplomacy and global order. This book offers a compelling vision of the tensions and possibilities of our post-Western era.

A fascinating investigation of the social norm movement and the implications of a powerful collective pursuing radical social change through contentious interventions across the Global South. Social change is slow and difficult to achieve. Dissatisfied with the lack of progress in eliminating inequalities, a powerful collective has converged around social norms as the next silver bullet to accelerate social change around the world. The movement is currently mobilizing immense funding, garnering the attention of powerful policy makers, and experimenting with radical interventions across the Global South. In Good Will Corrupting, Adam Fejerskov takes us from the Ethiopian highlands to convention halls in Marrakech, and from fourteenth century Palazzos in Florence to both the West and East Coast of the US, to understand this growing movement pushing social norm interventions in the name of progress, development, and health. A powerful scientific and moral project, the social norm collective harnesses insights from social psychology, behavioral economics, and game theory in its attempt to radically improve the lives of people in poor communities around the world. Good Will Corrupting traces not just the ambitions and impacts of the collective but also its inherent struggles to give meaning to this idea and bring it to life through interventions. Rooted in empirical explorations and feminist thought, this book shows just how incremental, nonlinear, and endogenous social and normative change often turns out to be and argues for a decolonization of efforts to change social norms around the world.

Startups og humanitære organisationer eksperimenterer verden over med ny, radikal teknologi i forsøget på at forbedre livsvilkårene for fattige og fordrevne. Håbet er, at nye digitale løsninger kan hjælpe folk til en bedre fremtid; at man med droner og biometriske registre kan levere mere effektiv nødhjælp, og at man med innovation kan understøtte den demokratiske udvikling og sikre menneskerettighederne. Men dataficerede tilgange til problemløsning er ikke garanti for fair eller objektiv behandling af hverken data eller mennesker. Når teknologien udvikles tusindvis af kilometer fra der, hvor den skal hjælpe mennesker i nød, har den ofte form af lappeløsninger, ligesom der sker læk med uoverskuelige konsekvenser for de mest udsatte. Vi har brug for en mere lige og kollektiv teknologiudvikling, der vender eksisterende hierarkier på hovedet og tænker i bredere forandring. Kun sådan kan vi sikre, at interventioner båret af ny teknologi er så relevante, effektive og bæredygtige som muligt. Adam Moe Fejerskov (f. 1987) er senior­forsker ved DIIS, hvor han beskæftiger sig med globale uligheders konsekvenser rundt om i verden, og hvordan uligheder formes af forhold som ny radikal teknologi.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has established itself as one of the most powerful private forces in global politics, shaping the trajectories of international policy-making. Driven by fierce confidence and immense expectations about its ability to change the world through its normative and material power, the foundation advances an agenda of social and economic change through technological innovation. And it does so while forming part of a movement that refocuses efforts towards private influence on, and delivery of, societal progress. The Gates Foundation’s Rise to Power is an urgent exploration of one of the world’s most influential but also notoriously sealed organizations. As the first book to take us inside the walls of the foundation, it tells a story of dramatic organizational change, of diverging interests and influences, and of choices with consequences beyond the expected. Based on extensive fieldwork inside and around the foundation, the book explores how the foundation has established itself as a major political power, how it exercises this power, but also how it has been deeply shaped by the strong norms, ideas, organizations, and expectations from the field of global development. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of global development, international relations, philanthropy and organizational theory.

Vores digitale verden er fuld af besværlige dilemmaer og frustrerende paradokser. Sociale medier har givet undertrykte borgere en stemme i demokratiet, men også spredt propaganda og trusler i et formentlig hidtil uset omfang. Smartphones har åbnet en ny verden af viden og kultur for folk, men bliver kritiseret for at gøre brugerne ulykkelige. Droner hjælper nødhjælpsorganisationer med at skabe fremgang i skrøbelige lande, men er samtidig kilde til drab på civile i Afghanistan. De nye teknologier rummer mange muligheder, men har også vist sig at kunne skade samfundet og almindelige mennesker. Vi ser på de fremskridt, som også er en forbandelse, fordi det hele går så stærkt, fordi udviklingen påvirker alle sider af vores liv, og fordi mennesker sjældent forstår virkningerne af det, de har fundet på, før problemerne melder sig. Bogen tager læseren i hånden, gør udviklingen konkret og klæder læseren på til at tage del i de diskussioner om tech, apps og data, som berører os alle.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has established itself as one of the most powerful private forces in global politics, shaping the trajectories of international policy-making. Driven by fierce confidence and immense expectations about its ability to change the world through its normative and material power, the foundation advances an agenda of social and economic change through technological innovation. And it does so while forming part of a movement that refocuses efforts towards private influence on, and delivery of, societal progress. The Gates Foundation’s Rise to Power is an urgent exploration of one of the world’s most influential but also notoriously sealed organizations. As the first book to take us inside the walls of the foundation, it tells a story of dramatic organizational change, of diverging interests and influences, and of choices with consequences beyond the expected. Based on extensive fieldwork inside and around the foundation, the book explores how the foundation has established itself as a major political power, how it exercises this power, but also how it has been deeply shaped by the strong norms, ideas, organizations, and expectations from the field of global development. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of global development, international relations, philanthropy and organizational theory.