IDS PhD Research: Recent submissions
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State incapacity by design: unused grants, poverty and electoral success in Bihar
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Global environmental agreements and local livelihoods: how the internationalisation of environmental resources shapes access to and control over wetland resources in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(University of Sussex, 2011)This thesis examines how global environmental crisis narratives and discourses have influenced environmental policy and practice in conservation programmes for the Okavango Delta, Botswana. In particular, it highlights the ... -
Land reform, space and power in Makhado municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
(University of Sussex, 2011)This thesis explores the role of land reform in the production of space and relations of power in rural South Africa after 1994, based on a case study of a cluster of restitution farms in Makhado municipality in Limpopo ... -
Regulating GMOs in India: pragmatism, politics, representation, and risk
(University of Sussex, 2011)At the core of any effort by a nation state to regulate new technologies for public release is an implicit navigation of uncertainty. The case of Bt cotton in India presents a very timely and pragmatic example of how nation ... -
Modelling trade and financial liberalisation effects for Argentina
(University of Sussex, 2011)This thesis is a response to the growing recognition that the workings of the financial sphere significantly affect the value of social production, its distribution, and the magnitude of income poverty. The thesis extends ... -
Changing understandings of HIV and AIDS through treatment interactions
(University of Sussex, 2011)The problem of HIV internationally has many wide ranging impacts on people, communities and countries’ development. In the last decade antiretroviral (ARV) treatment has emerged as the major scientific-technical solution, ... -
Higher education as social change: seeking a systemic institutional pedagogy of social change
(University of Sussex, 2011)This thesis explores the institutional development of social engagement (SE) programmes within higher education institutions (HEIs). Since the 1990s, universities in the United States and Canada have become increasingly ... -
Local politics, conflict and development in Peruvian mining regions
(University of Sussex, 2011)This thesis examines the effects of a collection of policies that determine the mandatory distribution of mining, gas and oil revenues between national and subnational governments, and the greater involvement of mining ... -
Reinterpreting the implementation gap: a case based analysis of District Health System implementation in the Western Cape Province in South Africa
(University of Sussex, 2011)This dissertation examined an implementation gap through a case study on implementing a District Health System (DHS) in the Western Cape Province of South Africa between October 2001 and April 2006. The research project ... -
Claiming citizenship in the shadow of the state: violence and the making and unmaking of citizens in Rio de Janeiro
(University of Sussex, 2012)This thesis asks questions about the meanings and practices of citizenship, and how they change in a context of violence. Questions of citizenship are relevant because violence shifts the fundamental circumstances for ... -
Penetrating localities: participatory development and pragmatic politics in rural Andhra Pradesh, India
(University of Sussex, 2012)This research sets out to explore the interface between the new politics of localisation and the political process in India. Governments and donors have increasingly emphasised the locality as the primary unit of development ... -
Perceptions and realities of the poor in Nigeria: poverty, risks and livelihoods
(University of Sussex, 2012)This thesis examines the perceptions of poverty and own-poverty held by people living in poor communities, and uses these to understand their realities as evident in the risks they face and the livelihood strategies they ... -
The governability dilemma: progressive politics under Lula and the Brazilian Workers' Party
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Risk, modernity and the H5N1 virus in action in Indonesia: A multi-sited study of the threats of avian and human pandemic influenza
(University of Sussex, 2012)This thesis examines the Influenza A/H5N1 virus in action through an ethnographic study focused on the entwined concepts of risk and modernity. The objective is to explain why the response to the virus has been challenged ... -
The political ecology of road construction in Ladakh
(University of Sussex, 2012)This thesis explores the politics and consequences of road construction for local populations and migrant road workers in Ladakh. Through a political ecology framework, I consider road construction as the transformation ... -
Negotiating citizenship through communal water management in highland Ecuador
(University of Sussex, 2012)This research examines the formation of Water User Associations that administer communal drinking water supply systems in highland Ecuador and explores the ways in which they have become one of the many spaces through which ... -
Devolution and deconcentration in action: a comparative study of five Municipal Health Directorates in Ghana
(University of Sussex, 2012)Decentralisation policies have been adopted by most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in the expectation of improved service provision. The benefits expected are two-fold: a) decentralisation will lead to better coordination ... -
Negotiating an uncertain future: a multi-study of narratives of Kenyan agricultural climate change adaptation
(University of Sussex, 2014)This research addresses the following question: ‘In the context of climate change, how do different actors narrate the uncertain, ambiguous and risky future of maize agriculture, and what are the implications?’ A multi-sited ... -
Ways of knowing of farmers and scientists: tree and soil management in the Ethiopian Highlands
(University of Sussex, 2014)The Ethiopian Highlands have been studied extensively, hosting a large amount of research for development projects in agriculture and forestry over several decades. The encounters in these projects were also encounters of ... -
Global travellers on the digital dirt road: international mobility, networks and ICT diffusion in Ghana
(University of Sussex, 2013)This thesis focuses on the intersection of human mobility and technology diffusion in Africa. With Ghana as a case study, it looks at how the diffusion of internet access and use are influenced by international mobility. ...