Adam Moe Fejerskov
Biographic Data
| ID | 79003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Moe Fejerskov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam Moe |
| FAMILY NAME | Fejerskov |
| SIGNATURE | FEJERSKOV A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Danish Institute for International Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4132-8200 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Strategic solidarity: Solidarity and self-interest in Scandinavian contributions to global Covid-19 vaccine equity
BACKGROUND: During the Covid-19 pandemic, Nordic states were praised for leadership on global vaccine equity, notably through strong support for the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) and COVAX. At the same time, like other high‐income countries, they took decisive measures to secure priority access to vaccines for their own populations, contributing to global inequities. Scholarship on global health security and diplomacy often treats …
Announcing the 2025 Progress in Development Studies Best Article Award Winner
Datafied localization: Reproducing unequal power hierarchies in humanitarianism
The integration of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and algorithms into development aid and relief efforts has brought datafication processes to the forefront of contemporary humanitarianism. This article contributes to critical studies of (big) data in humanitarianism by introducing insights from the humanitarian literature on distance and proximity. It highlights three ways in which the mobilization of big data to convey "local" perce…
Announcing the 2024 Progress in Development Studies Best Article Award Winner
Development Research in Flux and in Demand: The Future of Progress in Development Studies
The perils of 'tech for good' lie in its politics of helping
Vexing political questions of power, inequality and coloniality permeate the tech sector and its growing use of global 'virtual' assembly lines that see them penetrate even refugee camps in efforts to extract value. As a response, tech companies have been expanding non-commercial activities within a presumed framework of humanitarianism, in part, trying to outweigh the negative implications of unjust business practices often characterised by thir…
Humanitarian ignorance: Towards a New Paradigm of Non-Knowledge in Digital Humanitarianism
This paper introduces the notion of 'humanitarian ignorance' to address growing concern regarding non-knowledge, as datafication becomes a central instrument and ambition of the humanitarian sector. With the turn to digital humanitarianism, contemporary humanitarian action increasingly relies on technology-driven quantification to expand the ability to collect, analyse, and present information. Utilising datafication processes, humanitarian organ…
Multilateral Climate Finance Coordination: Politics and Depoliticization in Practice
The governance of public climate finance for mitigation and adaptation in developing countries is fragmented on both the international and national levels, with a high diversity of actors with overlapping mandates, preferences, and areas of expertise. In the absence of one unifying actor or institution, coordination among actors has emerged as a response to this fragmentation. In this article, we study the coordination efforts of the two most imp…
Return migration, masculinities and the fallacy of reintegration: Ethiopian experiences
The multifaceted notion of 'returning home,' and not least the dualities between expectation, anticipation and the realities facing migrants upon their return, is a key component in understanding East African migration dynamics and implications. This article constitutes an exploratory attempt to understand the nexus between return migration journeys, reintegration, psychosocial well-being, and masculinity for the hundreds of thousands of Ethiopia…
Algorithmic Bias and the (False) Promise of Numbers
Advances in AI and machine learning systems have given rise to a contemporary euphoria of progress. This commentary discusses the challenges posed by advances in artificial intelligence, or more precisely the increasing usage of algorithmic systems, in global health, sometimes carried forward by an almost blind faith in numbers and automation. Yet we share no common definition of fairness in AI and global health; regulation and regulatory oversig…
Disrupting Development? A Situated Perspective on Technology and Innovation in Global Development
This article analyses the growing ubiquity of radical technologies and disruptive methodologies in global development. Accelerated by the broad nature of the Sustainable Development Goals, disruption and its related notions of innovation and technology have gradually made it to the centre of attention in development, shaping public and private actors and interventions alike. The article employs a situated analysis of disruption in development to …
Development as resistance and translation: Remaking norms and ideas of the Gates Foundation
This article explores how ideas and practices manifested in a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded project on women’s access to land are continuously remade and transformed as they move through the many layers towards implementation. The article builds a theoretical framework that lets us understand development projects as systems of continuous meaning negotiation and translation. It then discusses the particular project’s three dominant reco…
Global norms and heterogeneous development organizations: Introduction to special issue on New Actors, Old Donors and Gender Equality Norms in International Development Cooperation
Contemporary development cooperation is characterized by an increasing tension between a growing diversity of actors and significant attempts at homogenizing development practices through global norms prescribing ‘good development’. This special issue shows empirically how diverse development organizations engage with global norms on gender equality. To understand this diversity of norm-engagement conceptually, this introductory article proposes …
The Influence of Established Ideas in Emerging Development Organisations: Gender Equality and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
This article explores how ideas and practices may find their way into and entail significant changes in organisations as these enter into new fields and are increasingly confronted with dominant normative frameworks. Drawing on sociological institutional perspectives, I conceptualise three analytical processes occurring as ideas find their way into development organisations: i) emergence; ii) international negotiation and consensus production; an…
Recasting the ‘New Actors in Development’ Research Agenda
The New Technopolitics of Development and the Global South as a Laboratory of Technological Experimentation
Science and technology have been integral issues of development cooperation for more than sixty years. Contrary to early efforts' transfer of established technologies from the West to developing countries, contemporary technology aspirations increasingly articulate and practice the Global South as a live laboratory for technological experimentation. This approach is especially furthered by a group of private foundations and philanthrocapitalists …
Contending Logics of Action in Development Cooperation: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Work on Gender Equality
The Social Construction of Development Cooperation Success and Failure
Determining the success of development projects and programmes is often portrayed and understood as a question of measurable impact and effectiveness. More often than not however, success is a negotiated truth, socially constructed between the involved stakeholders that does not require measurable results of impact, and may very well hold the opposite circumstances. By examining the Intergovernmental Authority on Development in the Horn of Africa…
Understanding the nature of change: How institutional perspectives can inform contemporary studies of development cooperation
This article argues that core lines of sociological institutionalist thought provide a set of valuable conceptual and theoretical vocabularies for exploring and explaining contemporary concerns of development cooperation. It identifies four broad categories of issues of central attention in the current study of development cooperation, and couples these with four avenues of sociological institutional research that may provide us with theoretical …
Going global? Micro-philanthrocapitalism and Danish private foundations in international development cooperation
During the past decade, academic attention to the role of private foundations in international development cooperation has greatly intensified. The largest foundations have increased their global giving and moved towards strategic social impact, but we do not know if such processes have also occurred at a more micro level. This article explores this issue by studying the international activities of Danish foundations. It finds that grant-making o…
The New Technopolitics of Development and the Global South as a Laboratory of Technological Experimentation
Science and technology have been integral issues of development cooperation for more than sixty years. Contrary to early efforts' transfer of established technologies from the West to developing countries, contemporary technology aspirations increasingly articulate and practice the Global South as a live laboratory for technological experimentation. This approach is especially furthered by a group of private foundations and philanthrocapitalists …
Recasting the ‘New Actors in Development’ Research Agenda
Global norms and heterogeneous development organizations: Introduction to special issue on New Actors, Old Donors and Gender Equality Norms in International Development Cooperation
Contemporary development cooperation is characterized by an increasing tension between a growing diversity of actors and significant attempts at homogenizing development practices through global norms prescribing ‘good development’. This special issue shows empirically how diverse development organizations engage with global norms on gender equality. To understand this diversity of norm-engagement conceptually, this introductory article proposes …
Humanitarian ignorance: Towards a New Paradigm of Non-Knowledge in Digital Humanitarianism
This paper introduces the notion of 'humanitarian ignorance' to address growing concern regarding non-knowledge, as datafication becomes a central instrument and ambition of the humanitarian sector. With the turn to digital humanitarianism, contemporary humanitarian action increasingly relies on technology-driven quantification to expand the ability to collect, analyse, and present information. Utilising datafication processes, humanitarian organ…
Development as resistance and translation: Remaking norms and ideas of the Gates Foundation
This article explores how ideas and practices manifested in a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded project on women’s access to land are continuously remade and transformed as they move through the many layers towards implementation. The article builds a theoretical framework that lets us understand development projects as systems of continuous meaning negotiation and translation. It then discusses the particular project’s three dominant reco…
Understanding the nature of change: How institutional perspectives can inform contemporary studies of development cooperation
This article argues that core lines of sociological institutionalist thought provide a set of valuable conceptual and theoretical vocabularies for exploring and explaining contemporary concerns of development cooperation. It identifies four broad categories of issues of central attention in the current study of development cooperation, and couples these with four avenues of sociological institutional research that may provide us with theoretical …
Datafied localization: Reproducing unequal power hierarchies in humanitarianism
The integration of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and algorithms into development aid and relief efforts has brought datafication processes to the forefront of contemporary humanitarianism. This article contributes to critical studies of (big) data in humanitarianism by introducing insights from the humanitarian literature on distance and proximity. It highlights three ways in which the mobilization of big data to convey "local" perce…
The perils of 'tech for good' lie in its politics of helping
Vexing political questions of power, inequality and coloniality permeate the tech sector and its growing use of global 'virtual' assembly lines that see them penetrate even refugee camps in efforts to extract value. As a response, tech companies have been expanding non-commercial activities within a presumed framework of humanitarianism, in part, trying to outweigh the negative implications of unjust business practices often characterised by thir…
Multilateral Climate Finance Coordination: Politics and Depoliticization in Practice
The governance of public climate finance for mitigation and adaptation in developing countries is fragmented on both the international and national levels, with a high diversity of actors with overlapping mandates, preferences, and areas of expertise. In the absence of one unifying actor or institution, coordination among actors has emerged as a response to this fragmentation. In this article, we study the coordination efforts of the two most imp…
Return migration, masculinities and the fallacy of reintegration: Ethiopian experiences
The multifaceted notion of 'returning home,' and not least the dualities between expectation, anticipation and the realities facing migrants upon their return, is a key component in understanding East African migration dynamics and implications. This article constitutes an exploratory attempt to understand the nexus between return migration journeys, reintegration, psychosocial well-being, and masculinity for the hundreds of thousands of Ethiopia…
Contending Logics of Action in Development Cooperation: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Work on Gender Equality
Contending Logics of Action in Development Cooperation: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Work on Gender Equality
The Social Construction of Development Cooperation Success and Failure
Determining the success of development projects and programmes is often portrayed and understood as a question of measurable impact and effectiveness. More often than not however, success is a negotiated truth, socially constructed between the involved stakeholders that does not require measurable results of impact, and may very well hold the opposite circumstances. By examining the Intergovernmental Authority on Development in the Horn of Africa…
Understanding the nature of change: How institutional perspectives can inform contemporary studies of development cooperation
This article argues that core lines of sociological institutionalist thought provide a set of valuable conceptual and theoretical vocabularies for exploring and explaining contemporary concerns of development cooperation. It identifies four broad categories of issues of central attention in the current study of development cooperation, and couples these with four avenues of sociological institutional research that may provide us with theoretical …
Going global? Micro-philanthrocapitalism and Danish private foundations in international development cooperation
During the past decade, academic attention to the role of private foundations in international development cooperation has greatly intensified. The largest foundations have increased their global giving and moved towards strategic social impact, but we do not know if such processes have also occurred at a more micro level. This article explores this issue by studying the international activities of Danish foundations. It finds that grant-making o…
The Influence of Established Ideas in Emerging Development Organisations: Gender Equality and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
This article explores how ideas and practices may find their way into and entail significant changes in organisations as these enter into new fields and are increasingly confronted with dominant normative frameworks. Drawing on sociological institutional perspectives, I conceptualise three analytical processes occurring as ideas find their way into development organisations: i) emergence; ii) international negotiation and consensus production; an…
Recasting the ‘New Actors in Development’ Research Agenda
The New Technopolitics of Development and the Global South as a Laboratory of Technological Experimentation
Science and technology have been integral issues of development cooperation for more than sixty years. Contrary to early efforts' transfer of established technologies from the West to developing countries, contemporary technology aspirations increasingly articulate and practice the Global South as a live laboratory for technological experimentation. This approach is especially furthered by a group of private foundations and philanthrocapitalists …
Development as resistance and translation: Remaking norms and ideas of the Gates Foundation
This article explores how ideas and practices manifested in a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded project on women’s access to land are continuously remade and transformed as they move through the many layers towards implementation. The article builds a theoretical framework that lets us understand development projects as systems of continuous meaning negotiation and translation. It then discusses the particular project’s three dominant reco…
Global norms and heterogeneous development organizations: Introduction to special issue on New Actors, Old Donors and Gender Equality Norms in International Development Cooperation
Contemporary development cooperation is characterized by an increasing tension between a growing diversity of actors and significant attempts at homogenizing development practices through global norms prescribing ‘good development’. This special issue shows empirically how diverse development organizations engage with global norms on gender equality. To understand this diversity of norm-engagement conceptually, this introductory article proposes …
Algorithmic Bias and the (False) Promise of Numbers
Advances in AI and machine learning systems have given rise to a contemporary euphoria of progress. This commentary discusses the challenges posed by advances in artificial intelligence, or more precisely the increasing usage of algorithmic systems, in global health, sometimes carried forward by an almost blind faith in numbers and automation. Yet we share no common definition of fairness in AI and global health; regulation and regulatory oversig…
Disrupting Development? A Situated Perspective on Technology and Innovation in Global Development
This article analyses the growing ubiquity of radical technologies and disruptive methodologies in global development. Accelerated by the broad nature of the Sustainable Development Goals, disruption and its related notions of innovation and technology have gradually made it to the centre of attention in development, shaping public and private actors and interventions alike. The article employs a situated analysis of disruption in development to …
Multilateral Climate Finance Coordination: Politics and Depoliticization in Practice
The governance of public climate finance for mitigation and adaptation in developing countries is fragmented on both the international and national levels, with a high diversity of actors with overlapping mandates, preferences, and areas of expertise. In the absence of one unifying actor or institution, coordination among actors has emerged as a response to this fragmentation. In this article, we study the coordination efforts of the two most imp…
Return migration, masculinities and the fallacy of reintegration: Ethiopian experiences
The multifaceted notion of 'returning home,' and not least the dualities between expectation, anticipation and the realities facing migrants upon their return, is a key component in understanding East African migration dynamics and implications. This article constitutes an exploratory attempt to understand the nexus between return migration journeys, reintegration, psychosocial well-being, and masculinity for the hundreds of thousands of Ethiopia…
Announcing the 2024 Progress in Development Studies Best Article Award Winner
Development Research in Flux and in Demand: The Future of Progress in Development Studies
The perils of 'tech for good' lie in its politics of helping
Vexing political questions of power, inequality and coloniality permeate the tech sector and its growing use of global 'virtual' assembly lines that see them penetrate even refugee camps in efforts to extract value. As a response, tech companies have been expanding non-commercial activities within a presumed framework of humanitarianism, in part, trying to outweigh the negative implications of unjust business practices often characterised by thir…
Humanitarian ignorance: Towards a New Paradigm of Non-Knowledge in Digital Humanitarianism
This paper introduces the notion of 'humanitarian ignorance' to address growing concern regarding non-knowledge, as datafication becomes a central instrument and ambition of the humanitarian sector. With the turn to digital humanitarianism, contemporary humanitarian action increasingly relies on technology-driven quantification to expand the ability to collect, analyse, and present information. Utilising datafication processes, humanitarian organ…
Announcing the 2025 Progress in Development Studies Best Article Award Winner
Datafied localization: Reproducing unequal power hierarchies in humanitarianism
The integration of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and algorithms into development aid and relief efforts has brought datafication processes to the forefront of contemporary humanitarianism. This article contributes to critical studies of (big) data in humanitarianism by introducing insights from the humanitarian literature on distance and proximity. It highlights three ways in which the mobilization of big data to convey "local" perce…
Strategic solidarity: Solidarity and self-interest in Scandinavian contributions to global Covid-19 vaccine equity
BACKGROUND: During the Covid-19 pandemic, Nordic states were praised for leadership on global vaccine equity, notably through strong support for the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) and COVAX. At the same time, like other high‐income countries, they took decisive measures to secure priority access to vaccines for their own populations, contributing to global inequities. Scholarship on global health security and diplomacy often treats …
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · International Development and Aid (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Engineering ethics (5 works)