PhD Students in the Department of Development Studies
Recently Completed PhDs
- Liberal Cosmopolitan and Realist Approaches to Gulf Wars 1991 and 2003: The Role of Discourse in Decision Making (2012; Ahmed Ijaz Malik)
- Negotiating War and the Liberal Peace: National NGOs, Legitimacy and the Politics of Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka 2006-7 (2010)
- The Architecture of Production and Labour Control in the Indian Garment Industry: Informalisation and Upgrading in the Global Economy (2009)
- Youth in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Exploring Transition, Globalization and Youth Culture in the Ferghana Valley (2009)
- The Politics of Development in Rural Rajasthan (India): Evidence from Water Conservation and Watershed Development Initiatives since the Early 1990s (2009)
- Fiscal Decentralisation and Local Development in Ghana with Reference to the Tamale Municipal Assembly (2008)
- Building an African World Class City: The Politics of World City Making in Johannesburg, South Africa (2008)
- (The Production of) Who Is A Refugee? (2008)
- Open Spaces and Hegemonic Practices in Global Civil Society: The World Social Forum 2004 (2007)
- Export grape production and development in North East Brazil (2007)
- Salvadorian Women's Empowerment - Adult Literacy as development (2007)
Orzala Ashraf Nemat
The changing nature of local power dynamics and governance at the community level in Afghanistan
- Email: 260569@soas.ac.uk
Sibel Balci-Saner
Internal Migration and Urbanisation in Istanbul: A Neoliberal Transformation
- Email: 258942@soas.ac.uk
Giulia Baldinelli
Indigenous peoples' migration and agrobiodiversity conservation: exploring connections in the Bolivian Andes (provisional title)
- Email: G_Baldinelli@soas.ac.uk
Pritish Behuria
Breaking Away from Coffee Dependence: Rwanda's Push for Export Diversification and what that tells us about its Developmental State
- Email: 248034@soas.ac.uk
Sylvia Brown
The role of youths in the Karan National Liberation Organisation
- Email: 216558@soas.ac.uk
James Brown
State Strategy, Foreign Investment and Labour Relations in Lao PDR (working title)
- Email: 569012@soas.ac.uk
Adam Burke
Internal conflict and the developmental state, focusing on Thailand
- Email: 103666@soas.ac.uk
Brendan Donegan
Spaces for negotiation and mass action: an anthropological study of Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (People’s Health Movement), the National Rural Health Mission and the right to health movement in India
- Email: 209530@soas.ac.uk
Dariusz Dziewanski
Institutionalized violence? Examining the role of informal institutions in armed violence in South Africa
- Email: ddziewan@yahoo.ca
Oroub El-Abed
Palestinian refugees living in informal areas of the Jordanian capital, Amman: Negotiating economic opportunities
- Email: 108889@soas.ac.uk
Rebecca E. Engel
International interventions during transition in Timor-Leste: Implications for stability and the prevention of violent conflict
- Email: r_engel@soas.ac.uk
Ali Fathollah-Nejad
A Critical Geopolitics of Iran in an Emerging New World Order (preliminary)
- Email: afn@soas.ac.uk
Diana Felix Da Costa
Working title: ‘Articulations between local stakeholders and the international peacebuilding apparatus in responses to local violence – a case-study of South Sudan’.
- Email: df_costa@soas.ac.uk
Edwige Fortier
Negotiating Spaces: How Organisations working with Marginalised Groups Manoeuvre in the Middle East and North Africa
- Email: 112089@soas.ac.uk
Elias Ghadban
Agricultural cooperatives in Lebanon: Farmers’ cooperation and agricultural development policies after the end of the civil war in 1990
- Email: e.ghadban@soas.ac.uk
Toufic Haddad
Political Economy of Neoliberal Conflict Resolution and Statebuilding in the Occupied Palestinian Territories - 1993 to the Present
- Email: 298377@soas.ac.uk
Aziz Ahmad Hakimi
Between Assumptions and Practices: Negotiating Statehood in Contemporary Afghanistan
- Email: 501282@soas.ac.uk
Joanna Hoare
Gender and ‘active citizenship’ in the context of development intervention in Kyrgyzstan
- Email: 223040@soas.ac.uk
Graham Hobbs
British imperialism in Iraq, and its relation to US imperialism, since the end of the Cold War
- Email: 277659@soas.ac.uk
Cynthia Howson
Trafficking in Daily Necessities: Female Cross-Border Traders in Senegal.
- Email: ch27@soas.ac.uk
Zulkarin Jahangir
'Complexity' through mobile phone led 'networking'; exploring financial benefits of rural residents in Bangladesh
- Email: Z_jahangir@soas.ac.uk
Neha Kagal
Broadly my thesis is looking at the impact of unionization of informal sector women workers in India on bargaining relations within the home, with a specific focus on masculinity.
- Email: Nehakagal1@gmail.com
Alinafe Kasiya
Decentralization, Participation, Accountability and District Development Planning in Malawi
- Email: 260509@soas.ac.uk
Amrita Lamba
Strong State-Society Synergy for Inclusive Natural Resources Governance: Comparing Brazil and South Africa
- Email: a_lamba@soas.ac.uk
Sonia Languille
Political economy of education reforms in Africa: the case of secondary education expansion in Tanzania since 2000
- Email: 451960@soas.ac.uk
Eliza Massi
Internationalization of Big Business in Brazil and South Africa: Liberalization and Changing State-Business Relations
- Email: e_massi@soas.ac.uk
Philippa McMahon
Labour Market Exposure and Eviction: The Impact of Development upon Cambodia's Urban Poor [working title]
- Email: p_mcmahon@soas.ac.uk
Musa Mckee
‘Just Add Water’ - The Alchemy of Authoritarian Rule in Large-Scale Agricultural and Residential Developments in Egyptian Deserts during the Mubarak Era. (working title)
- Email: musa_mckee@soas.ac.uk
Lorenza Monaco
Global Production and Industrial Restructuring in India: Capital Strategies and Labour Practices within a Booming Automotive Sector (working title)
- Email: lm47@soas.ac.uk
Umut Onder
Possibilities and limits of green economic models under the prevailing global economic order: A critical analysis of commodification and/or financialisation of the environment from the perspective of political economy of the environment.
- Email: umut_onder@soas.ac.uk
Ana Oprisan
The Roma in Turkey. From Survival Mechanisms to Development Strategies
- Email: 429413@soas.ac.uk
Robtel Pailey
The Love of Liberty Divided Us Here? Implications of Dual Citizenship on Liberia's Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development Processes
- Email: r_pailey@soas.ac.uk
Aruna Pandey
Institutional Models to Resolve Conflicts over Natural Resource Governance: Role of Community Enterprises and Solidarity Economy
- Email: 312468@soas.ac.uk
Nayanka Paquete Perdigao
(Working title) Perspectives on the failed State paradigm, Guinea-Bissau: A failed state or a state in the making?
- Email: 177214@soas.ac.uk
Benjamin Petrini
Policy Dilemmas of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) Programs: The Case of Colombia (provisional)
- Email: b_petrini@soas.ac.uk
Marion Péchayre
International non-governmental organisations and the politics of “triage” in conflict and natural disasters settings - Pakistan 2004-2012
- Email: mp57@soas.ac.uk
Helena Pérez Niño
Emerging land laws in sub-Saharan African war to peace transitions
- Email: 235016@soas.ac.uk
Siham Rayale
The Politics of Peace: Accounting for Security in Women’s Political Participation In Somaliland (1991-2012)
- Email: s_rayale@soas.ac.uk
Vincent Rich
Carving a Life: the Political Economy of Woodcarver Livelihoods in Cabo Delgado, Northern Mozambique
- Email: 149869@soas.ac.uk
Sarah Sabry
Urban poverty and social policy: the role of non-state actors in Egypt
- Email: sarahsabry@soas.ac.uk
Florian Schaefer
Agrarian change and agricultural commercialization in the Ethiopian coffee and floricultural sectors
- Email: f_schaefer@soas.ac.uk
Claudia Seymour
Young people’s experiences of and means of coping with violence in North and South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Email: 125415@soas.ac.uk
Shalini Sharma
Relationship between News Media and New Social Movements in India in an Age of Neoliberal Globalisation.
- Email: shalini@soas.ac.uk
Mariyam Shiuna
Working Title: Urban violence and disillusionment with democracy in the Maldives.
- Email: m_shiuna@soas.ac.uk
Lucy Stackpool-Moore
'Narratives of Human Rights: Universal concepts brought into focus through lenses of life stories'
- Email: 262359@soas.ac.uk
Farooq Sulehria
Media imperialism in the age of globalization. The case of India and Pakistan.
- Email: 294785@soas.ac.uk
Amaia Sánchez
External Intervention in Peace Processes and conflict transformation; the case of Sri Lanka
Sehin Teferra
Occupational Hazard or Patriarchal Entitlement? : Feminist Analysis of the Dynamics of Violence in Ethiopian Sex Work (working title)
Mark Tilzey
The Political Ecology of the Food Sovereignty Movement in Nepal: Reconnecting Food, Nature and Community?
- Email: 556031@soas.ac.uk
Mónica Unda
Inequality in México: Its dimensions and possibilities for change. Understanding the phenomenon of inequality in its multiple facets and the possible public policies to address inequality by the Mexican state
Hannah Vaughan-Lee
Aiding the Status Quo of 'Post-Collapse': Humanitarian Assistance and the Political Processes of State-building in South Central Somalia 2007 - 2010
David Wearing
To what extent can Marxist accounts of imperialism explain Britain’s relationship with the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council, in the post-Cold War era?
- Email: 184356@soas.ac.uk
Karin Wedig
Small, Beautiful And Struggling: Cooperatives And Labour Organisation In Uganda’s Liberalised Coffee Sector
- Email: Karin.wedig@soas.ac.uk
Ahmet Zaifer
Acceleration of Privatization Process in Turkey: why in the last decade?
- Email: a_zaifer@soas.ac.uk
Shuwan Zhang
Labour disputes of young generation migrant workers in China
- Email: shuwan_zhang@soas.ac.uk
