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Elsje Fourie
Elsje Fourie is associate professor of Globalisation & Development Studies
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Our inbox problem
“Take that!”, you cry, clicking it through to your junk mail folder
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“I can’t promise I’ll never again read the abstract instead of the article”
Colleagues observe that many students don’t want to read anymore
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Orange Juice Politics
"I was struck by how gamely - how earnestly - the Maastricht mayor answered questions"
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ChatGPT: Between fear and unbridled optimism
Others felt deeply uneasy, wondering if we’d reached what The Spectator magazine has called “the end of writing”
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The Stories We’ve Told
"It's not only a shameless ‘plug’ for our (open access) publication"
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We bicker a lot, as such couples tend to do
"I’ll keep banging this drum to draw attention to the causes my colleagues know I care deeply about"
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Being There (Again)
"Being there has shown me the tiredness in the eyes of an eighteen-year-old greenhouse worker five hours into bending over a row of basil plants in the sweltering heat"
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Getting virtual mud under my fingernails
"It’s enough to make you want to hide under the duvet until spring shows up"
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Once Upon a Time, We Were Students
"I’ve passed into the realm of The Other, just as I once pushed some of my predecessors there"
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When it makes sense to be foolish
"I started using creative non-fiction to share my academic research. Yes, it’s been scary as hell"