Sofie Elbæk Henriksen

Thrilled to announce the second of our 2024 Early-Career Researcher Prize winners! 🎉 Congratulations to @sofie_hen for her outstanding article: "Humanitarian Hacking", examining how refugee aid meets digital capitalism. Free to read for the next year! academic.oup.com/jrs/article-ab…

What is the problem with 'Tech for Good'? What should tech companies like Google and meta do instead of commodifying compassion? Read this short commentary by me @afejerskov to find out. @CBDScbs @diisdk @AfricaBusPol @MahaRafiAtal @sofie_hen journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Conjuring innovation🪄 Tech pilots aren’t just designed to help people. Regardless of what they achieve, they are valuable products for aid industry actors to promote: medium.com/caribou-digita… ^This blog summarises my new research on tech pilots in aid: #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🗣️Will donation apps revolutionize aid? The short answer is NO‼️ The long answer is found in @BrandAid_World and my article in the @IAJournal_CH Special Section 'The crisis in the palm of our hand' - just in time to be added to your summer reading list☀️ More info below⬇️

And then there was the superhero version where unaccountable elites sell business solutions to 'save' Congo with Starbucks coffee, militia-proof chocolate bars, and of course, Tom's hideous shoes lisaannrichey.wixsite.com/batmansavesthe…

Some of you @SASE_Meeting #SASE2024 +know us @CocoResearch have seen how there are some remarkable things going on in the selling of 'helping' in late capitalism. 1st was the GOAT of 'the red pill makes you stronger...just say yes' upress.umn.edu/9780816665464/…

Humanitære hackathons har ikke ført til udvikling af brugbar teknologi. Men de har fodret en fortælling om tech-virksomheder, som en anden mindre profitorienteret slags virksomhed end de klassiske kapitalistiske virksomheder. @sofie_hen diis.dk/publikationer/…

Because another border is possible: "Reimagining the Migration Protection System." A @HopeBorder @TempleLaw publication by @AhlamChemlali @nepantlamb @m_balaguera @samloce12 @zachgoodwin19 @BlancaNavGar Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Wanda Quintanilla &Grace Kindeke. hopeborder.org/_files/ugd/e07…

@GiulioWolfe It’s not over though 🫣 techtotherescue.org/hackathon/zero…

Although @sofie_hen I blame you for waking up my triggering memories of the hackathons and Techfugees era. What a circus

A must read, hope it gets published in English too at some point. @aidnography flagging this in case you missed it

Har skrevet om hackatons og tech-giganternes indtog på det humanitære marked i Jyllands-Posten idag: jyllands-posten.dk/debat/kronik/E…

Check out this new study by Henriksen (@CBScph) examining how alignment between humanitarian and business interests is pursued and constructed in refugee-focused cross-sector #partnerships. #refugeecrisis. Read more here: doi.org/10.1177/000765…

@andrewpopp6 @STS_News Thanks so much Andrew!

@STS_News Funnily enough, I just read this excellent piece from @sofie_hen on technological solutionism and refugee aid. Maybe not the overarching conceptualisation you are looking for but great, grounded exploration: academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-ar…

What's the best piece of writing that defines and criticizes solutionism, the technological fix, and the like?I'm looking for something that is conceptually rigorous and clear, not loose pop criticism stuff. Like, I would almost like an analytical philosopher's take . . .

This is one of my new publications of which I am most proud, free downloads here-should they run out you are always welcome to DM me. 🙏 @ABudabin @MFOlwig @MahaRafiAtal @sofie_hen @AfricaBusPol Monica Krause, Peter Leys, Mariano Palomino+ Liliano Marcelo tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A mystery, truly

@BondoHansen @JRefugeeStudies @diisdk @CBDScbs Thank you Kristian!

@sofie_hen @JRefugeeStudies @diisdk @CBDScbs Congratulations, Sofie. It is a great article.

What is humanitarian hacking and who does it actually help? I went to two refugee hackathons to find out! Read more in my new @JRefugeeStudies article on refugees, #hackathons and digital capitalism: academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-ar… @diisdk @CBDScbs #TechForGood

My new publication "Treading Water in Transit" is out in @scmrjems! Exploring Ivorian migrant women's navigation in urban Tunis, I challenge conventional notions of 'transit.' tandfonline.com/eprint/GBIERRF… Can't access it due to the paywall? Drop me your email, and I'll gladly share!

@AhlamChemlali @scmrjems @diisdk @GenSeM3 So cool Ahlam!! Can’t wait to read it ❤️

@kerstinmartel @banupan Well done Dr. Kerstin!! 🥳

Honoured that I could discuss my #PhD thesis with this great committee of #interdisciplinary scholars: @banupan, David S.A. Guttormsen and Maribel Blasco. #identity #globalmobility #migrations #HRM

@rohawkins @PollyWilkins @PublicAnthropol @BondoHansen @BrandAid_World @sineplambech @diisdk @CBScph Thank you Roberta and also for your advice and feedback on parts of this thesis. You are in the acknowledgements of course 😊

Yesterday I successfully defended my PhD on tech companies as humanitarian actors 🥳 Thanks so much to the committee @PollyWilkins @PublicAnthropol and @BondoHansen for your thoughtful and hard questions 🤓 @BrandAid_World @sineplambech @diisdk @CBScph