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Managing Political Space: Authority, Marginalised People's Agency and Governance in West Bengal
(Liverpool University Press, 2018)This paper investigates governance reform which aims to ‘move the state’ closer to people, arguing that greater attention needs to be paid to two questions: how does political decentralisation affect the ways in which ... -
The Aftermath of Eviction in the Nigerian Informal Economy
(Liverpool University Press, 2019)This article examines the mechanisms through which street traders claim and maintain access to urban space in the aftermath of eviction – a phenomenon that affects poor urban workers across the global South. Whilst much ... -
Prosperity for All: Enhancing the Informal Economy Through Participatory Slum Upgrading
(United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2019)Estimates suggest that a billion people live in slums and informal settlements today, representing about 30 per cent of the world’s urban population. In parallel, in many cities of Africa, Asia and Latin America the informal ... -
The Role of Inequality in Poverty Measurement
(University of Oxford, 2019)The adjusted headcount ratio, or MPI, is widely used by countries and international organizations to track multidimensional poverty and coordinate policy. Several characteristics have encouraged its rapid diffusion: ... -
Agricultural Production Amid Conflict: Separating the Effects of Conflict into Shocks and Uncertainty
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)This paper examines the effect of conflict on agricultural production of small farmers. First, an inter-temporal model of agricultural production is developed in which the impact of conflict is transmitted through violent ... -
Ethical Living: Relinking Ethics and Consumption Through Care in Chile and Brazil
(Wiley, 2018)Mainstream conceptualizations of ‘ethical consumption’ equate the notion with conscious, individual, market‐mediated choices motivated by ethical or political aims that transcend ordinary concerns. Drawing on recent sociology ... -
How the International Media Framed 'Food Riots' During the Global Food Crises of 2007-12
(Springer, 2018)This paper explores the framing of ‘food riots’ in the international media during the global food crisis period of 2007–12. This is an important issue because the international media’s overly simplistic treatment of ... -
Food Riots in Bangladesh? Garments Worker Protests and Globalized Subsistence Crises
(Zapruder World, 2019)This paper explores the politics of provisions in Bangladesh through an analysis of the so-called ‘food riots’ of 2008. On the face of it, poor, malnourished, mal-governed Bangladesh was a clear candidate for food riots ... -
Religious Fragmentation, Social Identity and Other-regarding Preferences: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment in India
(Elsevier, 2019)We examine the impact of religious identity and village-level religious fragmentation on other-regarding preferences. We report on a series of two-player binary Dictator experiments conducted on a sample of 516 Hindu and ... -
Long-lasting Consequences of War on Disability
(SAGE, 2019)This article investigates the impact of exposure to United States air force bombing during 1965–75 on the disability status of individuals in Vietnam in 2009. Using a combination of national census and US military data and ... -
The Power of the “Audience-Public”: Interactive Radio in Africa
(SAGE, 2018)Scholars of media and politics mostly recognise that audiences and publics are constructed, but fall short of explaining precisely how their indeterminate and imagined nature can be the basis of their political significance. ... -
From Shape Shifting to Collusion in Violence: An Ethnography of Informal Relationships Between Bangladeshi Members of Parliament and Their Constituents
(John Wiley & Sons, 2019)Based on an ethnography of relationships between members of Parliament (MPs) and their constituents in Bangladesh, this article shows how social and political relationships are entangled and performed, and how MPs are ... -
Parliament and Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh: Role of the MP
(SAGE, 2019)This article explores the role of Members of Parliament (MPs) in poverty alleviation in Bangladesh. Under the existing party-dominated parliamentary system, MPs do not have really much to do at the national level; their ... -
Alangkar or Ahangkar? Reserved-Seat Women Members in the Bangladesh Parliament
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This chapter investigates the role of reserved-seat women parliamentarians in Bangladesh—those elected indirectly to the parliament, now numbering 50, using the notions of descriptive representation and substantive ... -
Parliament, Public Engagement and Legislation in Bangladesh: a Case Study of Domestic Violence Act of 2010
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)This paper examines the process of enactment of the domestic violence bill in Bangladesh. One of the distinctive features of the bill, passed in 2010, was that it originated in civil society and widespread public engagement ... -
Ethnographies of Parliament: Culture and Uncertainty in Shallow Democracies
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018)The purpose of this paper is to consider the challenges, advantages and limits of ethnographical approaches to the study of parliament. Challenges in the study of political institutions emerge because they can be fast-changing, ... -
‘Lobby Fodder or Fearless Champions?’ The Role of Backbenchers in Holding Government to Account
(Springer, 2018)What is the role and function of a backbench MP, and are there differences in approach in different legislative systems? What shapes their scrutiny role and work, and how are these factors affected by constitutional, ... -
Inter- and Intra-household Perceived Relative Inequality Among Disabled and Non-disabled People in Liberia
(PLOS, 2019)Evidence suggests that people with disabilities are the most marginalised and vulnerable group within any population. However, little is known about the extent of inequality between people with and without disabilities in ... -
Breaking Cycles of Risk Accumulation in African Cities
(United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), 2020)This publication covers a range of disaster risk management (DRM) themes, from community participation in DRM data collection to risk mapping and from urban waste management to hazard accumulation in urban risk traps. Yet ... -
Resilience Planning Under Information Scarcity in Fast Growing African Cities and Towns: The CityRAP Approach
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020)Urban planners seeking to enhance resilience contend with the complexity of interdependent systems and severe gaps in data and information. This complexity-capacity gap is most evident in smaller, rapidly growing cities. ...
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