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Mitigating Risk

Herat: dawn prayers
Except from the research report: In the Hands of God: A Study of Risk & Savings in Afghanistan co-authored with Cara Silver, Mark Rolston and …



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04 Mar 2013

In: Research Methods
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The 10 Emotional Stages of Working in High Risk Environments

04 Mar 2013

In: Research Methods
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I wrote the following article for a research paper
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In the Hands of God

04 Mar 2013

In: Research Methods
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Download the research report: In the Hands of God: A Study of Risk & Savings in Afghanistan co-authored with Cara Silver, Mark Rolston and Joshua …
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Extreme Gender Dynamics

04 Mar 2013

In: Research Methods
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Except from the research report: In the Hands of God: A Study of Risk & Savings in Afghanistan co-authored with Cara Silver, Mark Rolston and …
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The Screen

15 Feb 2013

The 500+ guest wedding (and being a guest a multiple weddings in a weekend) creates opportunities for gender mixing in a culture where there are …
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Money & Food

14 Feb 2013

In: Cultural Norms, Kabul
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“Those” Projects

08 Feb 2013

In: Research Methods
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There are projects. The ones that shape, mould and refine our methods, allow us to iterate on how we think about collecting, analysing and applying …
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In the Hands of God

08 Feb 2013

In: Cultural Norms, Kabul
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As some of you may remember in December I traveled to Afghanistan with colleagues Mark Rolston and Cara Silver to explore attitudes to savings and …
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Retail Norms

23 Dec 2012

In: Cultural Norms, Herat
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Literal

21 Dec 2012

In: Cultural Norms, Herat
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So many assumptions and ambiguity wrapped up in the peculiar practice of writing “Door” in english, on glass door. Only ever seen it in Afghanistan. Spatial …
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