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Social Accountability and Health Systems’ Change, Beyond the Shock of Covid-19: Drawing on Histories of Technical and Activist Approaches to Rethink a Shared Code of Practice
(BMC, 2022-03-25)Background: Recognition of the value of “social accountability” to improve health systems performance and to address health inequities, has increased over the last decades, with different schools of thought engaging in ... -
Social Science Approaches to Infodemiology: Understanding the Social, Political, and Economic Context of Information
(Sage Journals, 2022-03-11)Embedded within the COVID-19 pandemic is the spread of a new pandemic of information – some accurate, some not – that can challenge the public health response. This has been termed an ‘infodemic’ and infodemic management ... -
La vulnérabilité cumulative face aux défis socio-environnementaux en Côte d’Ivoire
(OpenEdition | VertigO - la revue électronique en sciences de l'environnement, 2021-12)Les études sur la vulnérabilité visent à comprendre les conditions et les expressions d’exposition néfastes aux catastrophes naturelles et/ou aux autres crises (alimentaires, sanitaires, et cetera), dans le but de réduire ... -
It's Not the Market, Stupid: On the Importance of Non-market Economies in Sustainability Transitions
(Elsevier, 2022-03)It has been widely assumed that market mechanisms are central in incentivizing the development of sustainable innovations and that market formation is critical for the diffusion of innovations. We challenge the centrality ... -
Beyond Greed: Why Armed Groups Tax
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2022-02-20)Based on a review of the diverse practices of how armed groups tax, we highlight that a full account of why armed groups tax needs to go beyond revenue motivations, to also engage with explanations related to ideology, ... -
Gender, Global Terror, and Everyday Violence in Urban Pakistan
(Elsevier, 2019-03)We investigate the cross scalar linkages between every day violence and global war on terror in the context of urban Pakistan. We draw upon intensive research undertaken in the twin cities of Rawalpindi/Islamabad and Karachi ... -
Vaccine Anxieties, Vaccine Preparedness: Perspectives from Africa in a Covid-19 Era
(Elsevier, 2022-02-16)Global debates about vaccines as a key element of pandemic response and future preparedness in the era of Covid-19 currently focus on questions of supply, with attention to global injustice in vaccine distribution and ... -
Mining - The Dark Side of the Energy Transition
(Elsevier, 2021-12)The energy transition will significantly increase demand for minerals. This might create new economic opportunities for lower-income countries with resources, but it will also augment local social and environmental problems ... -
What is ‘Conventional’ Agriculture?
(Elsevier, 2022-03)Agriculture faces many challenges. In both public discourse and the scientific literature debates about the future are increasing framed in terms of ‘alternative’ versus ‘conventional’ agriculture. In this paper we critically ... -
The Use of Epic Narratives in Promoting ‘Natural Agriculture’
(SAGE, 2022-02-10)This paper profiles some key promoters of nature-based and natural systems agriculture – Masanobu Fukuoka, Wes Jackson, Jerome Irvin Rodale and Robert Rodale, and Allan Savory. The focus is on ‘narratives with epic elements’ ... -
‘Without Water, There is No Life’: Negotiating Everyday Risks and Gendered Insecurities in Karachi’s Informal Settlements
(SAGE, 2019-04-23)This article provides new insights into the politics of water provisioning in Karachi’s informal settlements, where water shortages and contaminations have pushed ordinary citizens to live on the knife edge of water scarcity. ... -
A Revisit of Farm Size and Productivity: Empirical Evidence from a Wide Range of Farm Sizes in Nigeria
(Elsevier Ltd., 2021-06-04)The relationship between farm size and productivity has been studied extensively in the agricultural and development economics literature. However, most of the documented evidence in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is based on ... -
Ustaads, Shagirds, and the Drudgery and Virtuosity of Breakdowns and Repair
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2020-12-26)Maintenance and repair work constitute an important part of a thriving urban life, in this case, in Karachi, Pakistan. The connection between breakdowns, and repair and maintenance practices is looked at along with evaluating ... -
Climate Change, Urban Futures, and the Gendering of Cities in South Asia
(Heinrich Böll Foundation, 2021)Comprised of the nation-states of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, India, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, South Asia is home to an estimated 1.5 billion people. This region accommodates a large portion of the ... -
Private and State-Led Contract Farming in Zimbabwe: Accumulation, Social Differentiation and Rural Politics
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2021-12-17)Contract farming schemes often amplify existing patterns of socio-economic differentiation. In Zimbabwe, processes of differentiation were underway before the current expansion of contract farming and they have deepened ... -
The Politics of Mechanisation in Zimbabwe: Tractors, Accumulation and Agrarian Change
(Routledge, 2021-07-26)This article explores whether mechanisation affects patterns of accumulation and differentiation in Zimbabwe’s post land reform where policy consistently disadvantages smallholders. Is the latest mechanisation wave any ... -
Old Tractors, New Policies and Induced Technological Transformation: Agricultural Mechanisation, Class Formation and Market Liberalisation in Ghana
(Routledge, 2021-03-14)This article examines the recent uptake of tractor ploughing services in northern Ghana. It examines the historical continuities in mechanisation and the emergence of a class of medium-scale commercial farmers. In the light ... -
Tractors, States, Markets and Agrarian Change in Africa
(Routledge, 2021-07-16)Mechanisation has made a comeback to agricultural policy in Africa, encouraging scholars to revisit seminal literature on induced innovation. Recent studies emphasise the role for markets in addressing Africa’s mechanisation ... -
An Introduction to the Labours of Repair and Maintenance in South Asia
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2020-12-26)As the cities in South Asia transform into global or “world-class” cities, the lives of those who construct, repair, and maintain these cities are changing. In this collection of articles on repair and maintenance in South ... -
Intersectional Coproduction and Infrastructural Violence: Experiences from Pakistan
(Oxford University Press, 2019-12-16)The delivery of projects for the coproduction of services raises multiple questions about how different structural barriers prevent and hinder the participation of various sectors of the population. Intersectionality theory ...