Outputs (106)

Critique of everyday narco-capitalism (2022)
Journal Article
Ghiabi, M. (2022). Critique of everyday narco-capitalism. Third World Quarterly, 43(11), 2557-2576. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2022.2053776

Capitalism is not only an economic mode of production; it is also a form of life. This also applies to a historical type of capitalism, which is the capitalism founded on (illicit) drugs – in other words: narco-capitalism. The article discusses how c... Read More about Critique of everyday narco-capitalism.

Disrupting the Colonial Subjectivity Imposed by Borders: The Experience of the Guarani People in Brazil (2022)
Journal Article
Sarmet, G. (2022). Disrupting the Colonial Subjectivity Imposed by Borders: The Experience of the Guarani People in Brazil. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 14(2020-2021), 52-69. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00037053

This paper aims to show how the imposed demarcation of borders by the Brazilian State has contributed to the establishment of other frontiers - not only physical but also epistemic and symbolic ones - against indigenous peoples. This practice has art... Read More about Disrupting the Colonial Subjectivity Imposed by Borders: The Experience of the Guarani People in Brazil.

Oil palm and gendered time use: A mixed-methods case study from West Kalimantan, Indonesia. (2022)
Journal Article
Rowland, D., Zanello, G., Waliyo, E., & Ickowitz, A. (2022). Oil palm and gendered time use: A mixed-methods case study from West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Forest Policy and Economics, 137, Article 102682. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102682

Measuring the social impact of oil palm requires the use of multiple metrics which capture different dimensions of well-being. To date, most studies have examined welfare outcomes at the household level, relying on a relatively narrow range of indica... Read More about Oil palm and gendered time use: A mixed-methods case study from West Kalimantan, Indonesia..

Autonomy within entanglements: Illegalised migrants, the EU border regime, and the political economy of Nouadhibou, Mauritania (2022)
Journal Article
Ould Moctar, H. (2023). Autonomy within entanglements: Illegalised migrants, the EU border regime, and the political economy of Nouadhibou, Mauritania. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 41(1), 56-73. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758221090250

This article contributes to debates about the autonomy of migration (AoM) by ethnographically detailing the EU border regime's external operations in Nouadhibou, Mauritania. In showing how the EU border regime is entangled within the political econom... Read More about Autonomy within entanglements: Illegalised migrants, the EU border regime, and the political economy of Nouadhibou, Mauritania.

‘What is happening now is not raiding, it's war’: The growing politicisation and militarisation of cattle-raiding among the Western Nuer and Murle during South Sudan's civil wars (2022)
Book Chapter
Felix da Costa, D., Pendle, N., & Tubiana, J. (2022). ‘What is happening now is not raiding, it's war’: The growing politicisation and militarisation of cattle-raiding among the Western Nuer and Murle during South Sudan's civil wars. In J.-N. Bach, J. Abbink, & S. Ancel (Eds.), Routledge Handook of the Horn of Africa. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429426957-23

Drawing on extensive fieldwork by the three authors, this chapter discusses how contemporary political conflicts have interacted with pastoralism. It focuses on the contrasting but interrelated settings of the Western Nuer and Murle peoples of South... Read More about ‘What is happening now is not raiding, it's war’: The growing politicisation and militarisation of cattle-raiding among the Western Nuer and Murle during South Sudan's civil wars.

Accounting for which violent past? transitional justice, epistemic violence, and colonial durabilities in Burundi (2022)
Journal Article
Jamar, A. (2022). Accounting for which violent past? transitional justice, epistemic violence, and colonial durabilities in Burundi. Critical African Studies, 14(1), 73-95. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2022.2039733

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in Burundi has been mandated to account for colonial and post-colonial violence. To examine such accountability efforts, I deploy a decolonial and legal anthropological approach. Through fieldwork in Buru... Read More about Accounting for which violent past? transitional justice, epistemic violence, and colonial durabilities in Burundi.

A sustainable livelihoods framework for the 21st century (2022)
Journal Article
Natarajan, N., Newsham, A., Rigg, J., & Suhardiman, D. (2022). A sustainable livelihoods framework for the 21st century. World Development, 155, Article 105898. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105898

This paper proposes a reformulation of the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (SLF) fit for the 21st century. The article explores the rise and usage of the original SLF, highlighting how its popularity among development practitioners emerged both fro... Read More about A sustainable livelihoods framework for the 21st century.

(Re)making the margins: Frontier assemblages and brokerage in Hambantota, Sri Lanka (2022)
Journal Article
Goodhand, J., & Walton, O. (2023). (Re)making the margins: Frontier assemblages and brokerage in Hambantota, Sri Lanka. Journal of International Development, 35(3), 459-477. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3651

This article examines the dynamics of brokerage surrounding two moments of rupture (the tsunami and the end of the war) in Hambantota, a district in southern Sri Lanka and a key site of frontier development. We contrast the two development assemblage... Read More about (Re)making the margins: Frontier assemblages and brokerage in Hambantota, Sri Lanka.

Classification and Roundabout Production in High‐value Agriculture: A Fresh Approach to Industrialization (2022)
Journal Article
Cramer, C., Di John, J., & Sender, J. (2022). Classification and Roundabout Production in High‐value Agriculture: A Fresh Approach to Industrialization. Development and Change, 53(3), 495-524. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12708

Developing countries are balance-of-payments constrained. In this context, high-value agricultural exports can make a greater contribution to structural change than development economists and developing country governments have typically acknowledged... Read More about Classification and Roundabout Production in High‐value Agriculture: A Fresh Approach to Industrialization.

Global partnerships on paper and in practice: Critical observations from inside a Global Challenge Research Fund capacity-development project (2022)
Journal Article
Axelby, R., Worku-Dix, B., & Crewe, E. (2022). Global partnerships on paper and in practice: Critical observations from inside a Global Challenge Research Fund capacity-development project. Journal of International Development, 34(8), 1496-1508. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3649

This article describes the bureaucratic processes required to establish and manage a single international capacity-development project that brought together a funding council (AHRC), UK University (SOAS University of London) and universities and othe... Read More about Global partnerships on paper and in practice: Critical observations from inside a Global Challenge Research Fund capacity-development project.