Tobias Denskus
Bio
Tobias Denskus refuses to be labelled an ‘expert' on Nepal just because he spent part of his PhD research inside the international peacebuilding community in Kathmandu; neither is he an expert on German peace discourses although he immersed himself in the policy and academic communities, attending workshops and reading newsletters. He is merely an ethnographic observer who is puzzled by aid relationships and the lack of critical self-reflection that seems to come with ‘proper' academic research, managerial organisational cultures and depolitizised projects.
Publications
- Flipping the telescope. Doing development ethnography ‘at home' - the case of the German peacebuilding community, Entwicklungsethnologie, 16 (1&2), 2008, (under review).
- Peacebuilding does not build peace, Development in Practice, 17 (4&5), 2007, 656-662.
- What are all these people doing in their offices all day? The challenges of writing-up stories from ‘post-conflict' Kathmandu, Peace, Conflict and Development: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 11, 2007.
Contact
Tobias Denskus (Doctoral Researcher)
Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9RE
UK