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PROF Jonathan Goodhand's Outputs (28)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sri Lanka in 2012: Securing the State, Enforcing the ‘Peace' (2013)
Journal Article
Goodhand, J. (2013). Sri Lanka in 2012: Securing the State, Enforcing the ‘Peace'. Asian Survey, 53(1), 64-72. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2013.53.1.64

Since the end of the civil war in May 2009, Sri Lanka’s government has continued to consolidate the unitary state and centralize power by combining political reform, patronage, and economic development. However, two forces countering such unity and c... Read More about Sri Lanka in 2012: Securing the State, Enforcing the ‘Peace'.

Sri Lanka in 2011: Consolidation and Militarization of the Post War Regime (2012)
Journal Article
Goodhand, J. (2012). Sri Lanka in 2011: Consolidation and Militarization of the Post War Regime. Asian Survey, 52(1), 130-137. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2012.52.1.130

Local elections consolidated the Mahinda Rajapaksa administration's grip on power. State-led efforts to stimulate economic growth continued with major infrastructure projects in the northeastern and southern parts of Sri Lanka. No significant progres... Read More about Sri Lanka in 2011: Consolidation and Militarization of the Post War Regime.

Stabilizing a Victor’s Peace? Humanitarian action and reconstruction in eastern Sri Lanka (2010)
Journal Article
Goodhand, J. (2010). Stabilizing a Victor’s Peace? Humanitarian action and reconstruction in eastern Sri Lanka. Disasters, 34(3), 342-367. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7717.2010.01212.x

This paper focuses on the ‘Sri Lankan model’ of counter-insurgency and stabilisation and its implications for humanitarian and development actors. The Sri Lanka case shows that discourses, policies and practices associated with ‘stabilisation’ are no... Read More about Stabilizing a Victor’s Peace? Humanitarian action and reconstruction in eastern Sri Lanka.

The Limits of Liberal Peacebuilding: International Engagement in the Sri Lankan Peace Process (2009)
Journal Article
Goodhand, J., & Walton, O. (2009). The Limits of Liberal Peacebuilding: International Engagement in the Sri Lankan Peace Process. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 3(3), 303-323. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502970903086693

This essay explores international engagement in the Sri Lankan peace process between 2002 and 2008. The internationalization of peacebuilding in Sri Lanka is analysed as part of a broader international shift towards a model of ‘liberal peacebuilding’... Read More about The Limits of Liberal Peacebuilding: International Engagement in the Sri Lankan Peace Process.