Author Archive for mudarchitect

A recent LSE report holds up literature as an untapped form of sociological or “development knowledge,” one that can succeed at assessing and capturing development issues “better” than policy research. The title makes a claim for the utility of literature in ameliorating the “crisis of representation in development research”: “The Fiction of Development: Literary [...]

The term ‘unbanked’ sounds distinctly zombie-like.  But it refers to the evidently 28 million Americans, heavily Latinos and African Americans, who don’t have bank accounts.  Two very different articles that appeared in the New York Times Magazine of Nov. 9, 2008 tackled the question of ‘how do we find ourselves in this financial crisis’ by [...]