Venice in February is an acquired delight. From my first winter visit there around 25 years ago, the relative emptiness of the winding streets, the fog from the canals and the possibility to admire views of the landscape without the typical hoard of tourists has been one of my favorite escapes. On Valentine’s Day during the first year of COVID 19, i... Read this >>
Profile: Lisa Ann Richey - Professor of Globalization

Lisa Ann Richey @BrandAid_World is Professor of Globalization in the Department of Management, Society and Communication at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. She completed a PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Post-Doc in Anthropological Demography at Harvard University. Currently she leads the research projects Commodifying Compassion: Implications of Turning People and Humanitarian Causes into Marketable Things (2016-2022) and Everyday Humanitarianism in Tanzania (2019-2024). Among other books, she has authored Batman Saves Congo: Celebrity, Disruption and the Politics of Development with Alexandra Budabin (forthcoming 2021); Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World with Stefano Ponte (2011); Population Politics and Development: From the Policies to the Clinics (2008) and edited Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, Place and Power (2016). She works in the areas of international aid and humanitarian politics, the aid business and commodification of causes, new transnational actors and alliances in the global South, development theories and representations, global health and gender. Lisa was the founding Vice-President of the Global South Caucus of the International Studies Association (ISA). www.lisaannrichey.com
Lisa Ann Richey's COVID-19 Diary
14 Aug 2020 : In Movement from Tanzania to Northern Italy to Denmark: Part 2 Carnivale to Discovering the Corona Emoji
Lisa Ann Richey, Professor of Globalization
25 Apr 2020 : In Movement from Tanzania to Northern Italy to Denmark: Part 1 Afropolitan Comfort and the Danish Corona Flag
My first memory of the Corona virus, before we became politicized enough to refer to it as COVID-19, or the “new” Corona virus—or for some special politicians, the “Wuhan” virus—was in Tanzania. Enjoying the evening breeze from the Indian ocean in the public area of our workshop hotel, I sat with a couple of our... Read this >>