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PROF Jonathan Goodhand's Outputs (83)

Fixing the past, mediating the future? Human rights brokers in Nepal and Sri Lanka (2025)
Journal Article
Goodhand, J., & Walton, O. (in press). Fixing the past, mediating the future? Human rights brokers in Nepal and Sri Lanka. Cultural Studies, 39(2), 269-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2024.2437439

In this article we focus on human rights brokerage in Nepal and Sri Lanka – two countries undergoing different kinds of post-war crises, which opened spaces and demands for brokers. We zoom in on the lives of two individuals who became human rights b... Read More about Fixing the past, mediating the future? Human rights brokers in Nepal and Sri Lanka.

The political economy of illicit drug crops: forum introduction (2024)
Journal Article
Thomson, F., Meehan, P., & Goodhand, J. (2024). The political economy of illicit drug crops: forum introduction. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 51(4), 763-800. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2328647

This article and the forum it introduces examine illicit drug crop (IDC) economies from agrarian perspectives. Examining IDCs as a group implies analysing how prohibition distinguishes them from other (licit) crops. We identify seven mechanisms throu... Read More about The political economy of illicit drug crops: forum introduction.

Negotiating Political Space: State restructuring in Post-War Nepal: A Political Economy Analysis of the Federal System (2024)
Thesis
Rai, J. Negotiating Political Space: State restructuring in Post-War Nepal: A Political Economy Analysis of the Federal System. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis explores the effects of post-war state restructuring in Nepal on the dynamics of political voice and resource distribution. Drawing on a political economy analysis and adopting a political settlements framework, the research assesses why... Read More about Negotiating Political Space: State restructuring in Post-War Nepal: A Political Economy Analysis of the Federal System.

The Power of Bargaining: Elites, Rents and War-to-Peace Transitions: Evidence from Afghanistan’s Presidential Elections, 2004-19 (2024)
Thesis
Kerami, K. The Power of Bargaining: Elites, Rents and War-to-Peace Transitions: Evidence from Afghanistan’s Presidential Elections, 2004-19. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In an era of rising conflicts and democratic backsliding, understanding the limitations of externally driven democratisation in fragile states is imperative. This dissertation examines Afghanistan's post-intervention political order (2001–2021), high... Read More about The Power of Bargaining: Elites, Rents and War-to-Peace Transitions: Evidence from Afghanistan’s Presidential Elections, 2004-19.

Drugs, frontier capitalism and illicit peasantries: towards a comparative research agenda (2023)
Journal Article
Goodhand, J., Ballvé, T., & Meehan, P. (2024). Drugs, frontier capitalism and illicit peasantries: towards a comparative research agenda. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 51(4), 801-825. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2258808

A defining character of drugs-affected frontier regions is their dynamic instability and their boom-and-bust cycles. These are violent and disturbed landscapes, in which illicit drug economies play a transformative role. But not all frontiers are the... Read More about Drugs, frontier capitalism and illicit peasantries: towards a comparative research agenda.

Taxation and State-Building in Afghanistan: A Political Economy Perspective (2001-2021) (2023)
Thesis
Isar, S. Taxation and State-Building in Afghanistan: A Political Economy Perspective (2001-2021). (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This research focuses on the fiscal dimension of state-building in Afghanistan. It examines the relationship between state-building and taxation with a particular focus on the Karzai (2001–2014) and Ghani (2014–2019) administrations, whilst also plac... Read More about Taxation and State-Building in Afghanistan: A Political Economy Perspective (2001-2021).

Fixes and Flux: Frontier Brokers, Political Settlements and Post-War Politics in Nepal and Sri Lanka (2022)
Journal Article
Goodhand, J., & Walton, O. (2022). Fixes and Flux: Frontier Brokers, Political Settlements and Post-War Politics in Nepal and Sri Lanka. The Journal of Development Studies, 58(11), 2331-2348. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2022.2086046

This article examines post-war politics in Nepal and Sri Lanka through the prism of centre-periphery relations, drawing upon and expanding political settlements analysis. We highlight two key features neglected in existing research on political settl... Read More about Fixes and Flux: Frontier Brokers, Political Settlements and Post-War Politics in Nepal and Sri Lanka.

(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.

The Constructions of the State, Violence and Political Settlement in South Sudan (2022)
Thesis
Bimeny, P. The Constructions of the State, Violence and Political Settlement in South Sudan. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In December 2013, only two years into independence, South Sudan degenerated into civil war following disagreements within the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) leadership. A subsequent Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in South S... Read More about The Constructions of the State, Violence and Political Settlement in South Sudan.

Entangled lives: drug assemblages in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan (2021)
Journal Article
Goodhand, J., & Pain, A. (2022). Entangled lives: drug assemblages in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan. Third World Quarterly, 43(11), 2654-2673. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2021.2002139

This article, focussing on Badakhshan province in north-east Afghanistan, explores the lifeworld of drugs and their entangled connections with people, places and things. It follows the journeys of drugs from the farmers’ fields, through their various... Read More about Entangled lives: drug assemblages in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan.

The Pat Jasan drug eradication social movement in Northern Myanmar. Part one: Origins and reactions (2021)
Journal Article
Dan, S. L., Maran, J. H. P., Sadan, M., Meehan, P., & Goodhand, J. (2021). The Pat Jasan drug eradication social movement in Northern Myanmar. Part one: Origins and reactions. International Journal of Drug Policy, 89, Article 103181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103181

This commentary provides an introduction to the origins and emergence of Pat Jasan, a social movement that emerged amongst the Kachin population of northern Myanmar in response to a perceived crisis of illicit drug production and consumption. Althoug... Read More about The Pat Jasan drug eradication social movement in Northern Myanmar. Part one: Origins and reactions.

Critical policy frontiers: The drugs-development-peacebuilding trilemma (2021)
Journal Article
Goodhand, J., Meehan, P., Bhatia, J., Ghiabi, M., & Gutierrez Sanin, F. (2021). Critical policy frontiers: The drugs-development-peacebuilding trilemma. International Journal of Drug Policy, 89, Article 103115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103115

Recent years have seen the emergence of a policy consensus around the need for fundamental reforms of global drug policies. This is reflected in the call for ‘development-oriented drug policies’ that align and integrate drug policies with development... Read More about Critical policy frontiers: The drugs-development-peacebuilding trilemma.

Voices from the borderlands 2020: Illicit drugs, development and peacebuilding (2020)
Report
Goodhand, J., Meehan, P., Thomson, F., Ghiabi, M., & Ball, L. Voices from the borderlands 2020: Illicit drugs, development and peacebuilding

Voices from the borderlands 2020 is the flagship publication of Drugs & (dis)order, a four year research project generating new evidence on how to transform illicit drug economies into peace economies. It aims to bring to light some of the experience... Read More about Voices from the borderlands 2020: Illicit drugs, development and peacebuilding.

Brokering an Urban Frontier: Milícias, Violence, and Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone (2020)
Thesis
Pope, N. Brokering an Urban Frontier: Milícias, Violence, and Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone. (Thesis). SOAS, University of London

This thesis examines the emergence and sustainment of milícias (militias) in the 1990s in the West Zone ‘margins’ of the city of Rio de Janeiro. It considers the rise of milícias as they coincide with urbanisation, economic liberalisation, democratis... Read More about Brokering an Urban Frontier: Milícias, Violence, and Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone.