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Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces (2024)
Journal Article
Rivas, A. M., & Purewal, N. K. (2024). Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces. Development in Practice, 34(7), 893-909. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2024.2332277

Gender and development (GAD) is coming under increasing scrutiny for its entanglements with hegemonic systems of governance, policy, and knowledge. This article argues that GAD programs and/or development studies programs with teaching provision on g... Read More about Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces.

Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour (2021)
Journal Article
Pattenden, J., Campling, L., Castañón Ballivián, E., Gras, C., Lerche, J., O'Laughlin, B., Oya, C., Pérez Niño, H., & Sinha, S. (2021). Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour. Journal of Agrarian Change, 21(3), 582-590. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12440

Covid-19 generated a crisis in capitalism, but not of capitalism. Capitalism reproduces itself in crisis and in ways that have significant but uneven impacts on the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour. This article explores prelimi... Read More about Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour.

The challenges of donor engagement with faith-based organizations in Cameroon’s health sector: a qualitative study (2021)
Journal Article
van Wees, S. H., & Jennings, M. (2021). The challenges of donor engagement with faith-based organizations in Cameroon’s health sector: a qualitative study. Health policy and planning, 36(4), 464-472. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czab006

Substantial global advocacy efforts have been made over the past decade to encourage partnerships and funding of faith-based organizations in international development programmes in efforts to improve social and health outcomes. Whilst there is a wea... Read More about The challenges of donor engagement with faith-based organizations in Cameroon’s health sector: a qualitative study.

The role of faith-based health professions schools in Cameroon’s health system (2020)
Journal Article
van Wees, S. H., Sop, M. D. S., Betsi, E., Olongo, S. A., & Jennings, M. (2021). The role of faith-based health professions schools in Cameroon’s health system. Global Public Health, 16(6), 895-910. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2020.1828985

Faith-based health professions schools contribute to the training of staff in many Sub-Saharan African countries. Yet little is known about these actors, their role in the health system, potential comparative advantages and challenges faced. This is... Read More about The role of faith-based health professions schools in Cameroon’s health system.

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.

Sites of Exception: Gender Violence, Digital Activism and Nirbhaya’s Zone Of Anomie in India (2019)
Journal Article
Dey, A. (2020). Sites of Exception: Gender Violence, Digital Activism and Nirbhaya’s Zone Of Anomie in India. Violence Against Women, 26(11), 1423-1444. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801219862633

Gender violence in India exists as a state of exception for the ways in which it occupies a non-legal, liminal space of existence as ‘bare life’ or ‘life itself’. The rape and murder of Jyoti Singh Pandey unprecedentedly brought this to the surface.... Read More about Sites of Exception: Gender Violence, Digital Activism and Nirbhaya’s Zone Of Anomie in India.

Livelihoods and Mobility in the Border Regions of Ethiopia (2019)
Book Chapter
Hammond, L. (2019). Livelihoods and Mobility in the Border Regions of Ethiopia. In F. Cheru, C. Cramer, & A. Oqubay (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy (269-287). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198814986.013.14

Ethiopia’s borderlands are key sites of population mobility and migration. Not only do these areas host most of the 800,000 refugees who have entered Ethiopia from neighbouring countries, they also are home to populations whose movements are heavily... Read More about Livelihoods and Mobility in the Border Regions of Ethiopia.

Water Management by Farmers (2018)
Book Chapter
Smith, L. Water Management by Farmers. In T. Allan, B. Bromwich, T. Colman, & M. Keulertz (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Food, Water and Society. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190669799.013.61

Analyzing the public policy challenge of multifunctional land use, for which farmers are required to be food producers, water resource managers and environmental stewards, it is argued that a location-sensitive policy mix is required, consisting of a... Read More about Water Management by Farmers.

Gender and Caste Intersectionality in India: An Analysis of the Nirbhaya Case, 16 December 2012 (2016)
Book Chapter
Dey, A., & Orton, B. (2016). Gender and Caste Intersectionality in India: An Analysis of the Nirbhaya Case, 16 December 2012. In S. Takhar (Ed.), Gender and Race Matter: Global Perspectives on Being a Woman (87-105). Emerald Group Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-212620160000021006

Purpose: This chapter deals with the concept of intersectionality with particular reference to the interconnectedness of gender, class and caste discrimination in India. Even though much of the work on intersectionality has been carried out by schola... Read More about Gender and Caste Intersectionality in India: An Analysis of the Nirbhaya Case, 16 December 2012.

Why basic income's emancipatory value exceeds its monetary value (2015)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2015). Why basic income's emancipatory value exceeds its monetary value. Basic Income Studies, 10(2), 193-223. https://doi.org/10.1515/bis-2015-0021

This article argues that the emancipatory value of a basic income is greater than its monetary value, drawing on the results of a large-scale basic income scheme conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh between 2010 and 2013. The scheme was ev... Read More about Why basic income's emancipatory value exceeds its monetary value.

East Asia: A Slippery Floor for the 'Left' (2015)
Book Chapter
Chang, D.-O. (2015). East Asia: A Slippery Floor for the 'Left'. In T. Marois, & L. Pradella (Eds.), Polarising Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis (180-191). Pluto Press

Over the last few decades, East Asia has truly become a global factory. It produces more than a third of global manufacturing export value while attracting more direct investment and growing more than twice as fast as other developing regions (and se... Read More about East Asia: A Slippery Floor for the 'Left'.