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Viewpoint: Agri-nutrition research: Revisiting the contribution of maize and wheat to human nutrition and health (2020)
Journal Article
Poole, N., Donovan, J., & Erenstein, O. (2021). Viewpoint: Agri-nutrition research: Revisiting the contribution of maize and wheat to human nutrition and health. Food Policy, 100, Article 101976. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101976

Research linking agriculture and nutrition has evolved since the mid-20th century. The current focus is on child-stunting, dietary diversity and ‘nutrient-rich’ foods in recognition of the growing burdens of malnutrition and non-communicable diseases... Read More about Viewpoint: Agri-nutrition research: Revisiting the contribution of maize and wheat to human nutrition and health.

Sweatshop Economics, the Poverty of Trade Theory and the Making of Inequality Across Scales (2020)
Book Chapter
Mezzadri, A. (2020). Sweatshop Economics, the Poverty of Trade Theory and the Making of Inequality Across Scales. In B. Dunn (Ed.), A Research Agenda for Critical Political Economy (91-105). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789903072.00011

This chapter argues that field-based research can provide key novel insights into the limitations of mainstream economic theories. The analysis provides a critique of comparative advantage and neoclassical trade models based on insights coming from y... Read More about Sweatshop Economics, the Poverty of Trade Theory and the Making of Inequality Across Scales.

Myanmar’s Contested Borderlands: Uneven Development and Ongoing Armed Conflict (2020)
Book Chapter
Lertchavalitsakul, B., & Meehan, P. Myanmar’s Contested Borderlands: Uneven Development and Ongoing Armed Conflict. In A. Simpson, & N. Farrelly (Eds.), Myanmar : Politics, Economy and Society. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429024443-17

Attempts to assert control over the country’s borderlands have been a central dynamic of the statebuilding agendas of successive governments in Myanmar, albeit a deeply conflictual one in light of the fact that the power and legitimacy of the state h... Read More about Myanmar’s Contested Borderlands: Uneven Development and Ongoing Armed Conflict.

A Potent Fuel?: Faith Identity And Development Impact In World Vision Community Programming (2020)
Journal Article
Jennings, M., Clarke, M., Feeny, S., Westhorp, G., & Donohue, C. (2020). A Potent Fuel?: Faith Identity And Development Impact In World Vision Community Programming. Journal of International Development, 33(1), 70-85. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3512

This paper explores the role of faith identity on impact in development by looking at the programming of a major international faith‐based development organisation (FBDO). It argues that faith identity rests not only in the internal projected identit... Read More about A Potent Fuel?: Faith Identity And Development Impact In World Vision Community Programming.

What are we afraid of? Exploring risk and immigration detention (2020)
Journal Article
Lindley, A. (2020). What are we afraid of? Exploring risk and immigration detention. Migration Studies, 9(1), 90-114. https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnaa021

Risk assessment is a prominent feature of managed migration regimes. How risk is conceptualised and operationalised, however, is highly contested terrain. The extent to which immigration detention represents an appropriate response to specific risks... Read More about What are we afraid of? Exploring risk and immigration detention.

Industrial Hubs and the Industrial Labour Force in Africa and Asia (2020)
Book Chapter
Oya, C., & Schaefer, F. (2020). Industrial Hubs and the Industrial Labour Force in Africa and Asia. In A. Oqubay, & J. Y. Lin (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Hubs and Economic Development (381-400). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198850434.013.20

Industrial hubs can take a number of institutional forms and vary greatly in size, sectoral composition, and degree of internal coordination. What all such hubs have in common, though, is that they concentrate industrial workers in great numbers and... Read More about Industrial Hubs and the Industrial Labour Force in Africa and Asia.

Race, positionality and the researcher (2020)
Book Chapter
Njeri, S. (2020). Race, positionality and the researcher. In R. Mac Ginty, R. Brett, & B. Vogel (Eds.), The companion to peace and conflict fieldwork (381-394). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46433-2_26

The chapter is an opportunity for retrospective reflection on issues of race and positionality of a researcher. A retrospective reflexivity is offered as a departure from the dominant approach of doing reflexivity because it provides an opportunity f... Read More about Race, positionality and the researcher.

Rebels-Turned-Narcos? The FARC-EP’s Political Involvement in Colombia’s Cocaine Economy (2020)
Journal Article
Gutiérrez D, J. A., & Thomson, F. (2020). Rebels-Turned-Narcos? The FARC-EP’s Political Involvement in Colombia’s Cocaine Economy. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 44(1), 26-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610x.2020.1793456

According to the ‘rebels-turned-narcos’ premise, increasing involve- ment in the illicit drug industry causes insurgent groups to lose sight of their political aims, as they shift their focus to profit-making. The (former) Colombian rebel group, the... Read More about Rebels-Turned-Narcos? The FARC-EP’s Political Involvement in Colombia’s Cocaine Economy.