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COVID Policy and Urban Food Markets in Peru: Governance and Compliance
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-02-19)Urban food markets are essential channels of food distribution and spaces of social interaction where COVID-19 could be easily transmitted. The Peruvian government used budget incentives to motivate local governments to ... -
What Makes “Difficult” Settings Difficult? Contextual Challenges for Accountability
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2022-10-22)It is increasingly common for international development actors to work in difficult and fragile settings, yet much of our understanding of accountability through social and political action comes from more stable settings. ... -
Employing the Policy Capacity Framework for Health System Strengthening
(Oxford University Press, 2023-01-25)The policy capacity framework offers relevant analytical ideas that can be mobilized for health system strengthening. However, the employment of this framework in the health field constitutes a relevant interdisciplinary ... -
Building Policy Capacity for Managing Rapid, Complex Change in China’s Health System
(Oxford University Press, 2022-01-30)The concept of policy capacity is often used to explain the success or failure of governments or countries in conceiving of, developing, and implementing policies, but is often poorly systematised. Wu et al provide a ... -
A Dialogue Between Innovation Studies of Economic Development and Transition Studies: an Illustration from Argentina’s Agriculture Sector
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-02-13)A dominant perspective within the field of development economics is that structural change away from the industries that developing countries traditionally specialize in, such as agriculture and mining, is necessary to ... -
The Political Ecology of COVID-19 and Compounded Uncertainties in Marginal Environments
(Frontiers, 2022-03-18)In this paper, we use a political ecology lens to look at how COVID-19 adds to a set of existing uncertainties and challenges faced by vulnerable people in the marginal environments of coastal India. Over the last few ... -
Women's Political Agency in Difficult Settings: Analysis of Evidence from Egypt, Nigeria, Mozambique, and Pakistan
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2023-01-04)Male gatekeeping and biased social norms in difficult settings characterized by fragility, authoritarianism, and conflict create challenges for women's political participation. This article explores the nature of challenges ... -
Bimodal Lobbying and Trade Policy Outcomes: Evidence From Corporate Political Activity Under Uncertainty in India
(Springer Nature, 2023-01-02)We lack insight into how firms reduce uncertainty by engaging with trade policy through corporate political activity (CPA), particularly in emerging economies. In this paper, we argue that CPA, as an instrument of nonmarket ... -
‘The Spatial Void Could be a Chance to Recreate’: Queer Visual Activism in the Fallout of the Beirut Blast
(Lectito Journals, 2022-12-30)On August 4th, 2020, Beirut was torn apart by a chemical explosion at its port. The blast was a consequence of dire government negligence – killing over 200 people, injuring a further 6,500, and causing massive destruction. ... -
Governance Diaries: An Approach to Researching Marginalized People’s Lived Experiences in Difficult Settings
(SAGE Publications, 2023-01-12)How do chronically poor and marginalized citizens interact with and make claims to the different public authorities that exist in fragile, conflict and violence-affected contexts? In other words, how does governance from ... -
From One Flooding Crisis to the Next: Negotiating ‘the Maybe’ in Unequal Karachi
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022-12-07)Every few years, Karachi floods during the summer monsoon. The flooding brings latent manoeuvrings by political actors looking to establish their hold over the city to the surface. Politicians, urban administrators, and ... -
Beyond the Genome: Genetically Modified Crops in Africa and the Implications for Genome Editing
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023-01-05)Genome editing—a plant-breeding technology that facilitates the manipulation of genetic traits within living organisms—has captured the imagination of scholars and professionals working on agricultural development in Africa. ... -
Global Queer and Feminist Activism: An Introduction
(Lectito BV, 2022-12-30)Queer and feminist visual activism has various origins across the globe and has emerged in a fluid cultural field of visual arts, popular culture, and protest aesthetics. Given the current context of gender backlash, these ... -
Tackling Online Gender-Based Violence; Understanding Gender, Development, and the Power Relations of Digital Spaces
(Routledge, 2022-09-09)Digital systems now mediate our everyday social practices, political and economic lives. But ICT4D (ICT for development) research exploring the relationship between gender, technology and development has only had a limited ... -
The Resistance Strikes Back: Women’s Protest Strategies against Backlash in India
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-12-07)The Shaheen Bagh site epitomised the longest sit-in intergenerational protests in India since Independence. Especially novel about these protests was the presence and leadership of first-time Muslim women protestors. Shaheen ... -
Nothing is as it Seems: ‘Discourse Capture’and Backlash Politics
(Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-12-07)In this article, in response to several calls for new theoretical andanalytical tools to help us understand the nature of contemporaryanti-feminist and anti-queer politics, I introduce the concept of‘discourse capture’. I ... -
Everyday Governance in Areas of Contested Power: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar and Pakistan
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2022-12-05)How do poor and marginalized people solve problems and claim rights and entitlements in places affected by conflict and where state authority is contested? Understanding such processes is important as the numbers of poor ... -
Technological Lock-in in Action: Appraisal and Policy Commitment in Argentina's Seed Sector
(Elsevier, 2023-03)This paper uses novel empirical evidence to analyse critically the widely held view that genetic engineering technology played a pivotal role in explaining the rapid expansion and increase in productivity of soy production ... -
International Aid Actions for Accountability: Identifying Interaction Effects Between Programmes
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2022-11-24)Aid agencies that support public accountability reforms commonly do so in the same places, and with similar state and civil society actors. However, the combined effects of their separate programmatic actions are rarely ... -
The Governance Shock Doctrine: Civic Space in the Pandemic
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2022-11-14)Emergencies heighten societies’ need to be governed. Accordingly, the COVID-19 pandemic put systems of public governance under severe pressure across the globe. Civic freedoms were widely curtailed for public health reasons. ...