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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 ... -
A Multicriteria Analysis of Groundwater Development Pathways in Three River Basins in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Elsevier, 2022)Reliance on groundwater in Sub-Saharan Africa is growing and expected to rise as surface water resource variability increases under climate change. Major questions remain about how groundwater will be used, and who informs ... -
Disease X and Africa: How a Scientific Metaphor Entered Popular Imaginaries of the Online Public During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-04-28)In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the addition of Disease X, a hypothetical infectious threat, to its blueprint list of priority diseases. In the construction of discourse that circulated following ... -
Epidemics and the Military: Responding to COVID-19 in Uganda
(Elsevier, 2022-10-29)The UN Security Council’s response to Ebola in 2014 legitimised militarised responses. It also influenced re- sponses to COVID-19 in some African countries. Yet, little is known about the day-to-day impacts for ... -
Investigating Initial Policy Responses to COVID-19: Evidence Across 59 Countries
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2022-10-10)We conduct a review of different support measures adopted by 59 countries as an immediate response to the COVID-19 pandemic using an inclusive development lens across five key areas – health and safety, welfare, finance ... -
Achieving Disability Inclusive Employment – Are the Current Approaches Deep Enough?
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2022-07-29)Diverse approaches to promoting disability inclusive employment aim to transform workplaces into truly inclusive environments, usually with intervention strategies targeting two main groups: employers and jobseekers with ... -
Mainstreaming Disability Inclusive Employment in International Development
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2022-07-05)People with disabilities are under-represented in the global workforce, and this problem is often particularly acute in the ‘global south’. This special issue seeks to provide new perspectives on why this is the case and ... -
Stories of Change in Nutrition: Lessons from a New Generation of Studies from Africa, Asia and Europe
(Springer Nature, 2022-09-19)How does nutrition improve? We need to understand better what drives both positive and negative change in different contexts, and what more can be done to reduce malnutrition. Since 2015, the Stories of Change in Nutrition ... -
Repertoires of Citizen Action in Hybrid Settings
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2022-08-24)In recent years, a growing literature has emerged analysing how organized citizen action can achieve more accountable and inclusive governance mostly focused on relatively open, democratic or more stable contexts, often ... -
Sexuality and the Development Industry
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009-03)A Chinese lesbian activist shows photos from her three way fake ‘wedding’, held in a Beijing restaurant to open up discussion on restrictive social and sexual norms; a Nicaraguan consultant tells the tale of how he was ...
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