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Department of Development Studies

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
Orzala Ashraf

The changing nature of local power dynamics and governance at the community level in Afghanistan

Sibel Balci-Saner
Sibel Balci-Saner

Internal Migration and Urbanisation in Istanbul: A Neoliberal Transformation


Giulia Baldinelli
Giulia Baldinelli

Indigenous peoples' migration and agrobiodiversity conservation: exploring connections in the Bolivian Andes (provisional title)

Pritish Behuria
Pritish Behuria

Breaking Away from Coffee Dependence: Rwanda's Push for Export Diversification and what that tells us about its Developmental State


Sylvia Brown
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The role of youths in the Karan National Liberation Organisation


James Brown
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State Strategy, Foreign Investment and Labour Relations in Lao PDR (working title)

Adam Burke
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Internal conflict and the developmental state, focusing on Thailand


Liam Campling
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Global commodity chains in fishing



Filippo De Danieli
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Drug political economy/mafias in Tajikistan

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Brendan Donegan
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

Dariusz Dziewanski
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Institutionalized violence? Examining the role of informal institutions in armed violence in South Africa


Oroub El-Abed
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Palestinian refugees living in informal areas of the Jordanian capital, Amman: Negotiating economic opportunities


Rebecca E. Engel
Rebecca Engel

International interventions during transition in Timor-Leste: Implications for stability and the prevention of violent conflict

Ali Fathollah-Nejad
Ali Fathollah-Nejad

A Critical Geopolitics of Iran in an Emerging New World Order (preliminary)


Diana Felix Da Costa
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’.

Edwige Fortier
Edwige Fortier

Negotiating Spaces: How Organisations working with Marginalised Groups Manoeuvre in the Middle East and North Africa


Elias Ghadban
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Agricultural cooperatives in Lebanon: Farmers’ cooperation and agricultural development policies after the end of the civil war in 1990

Jessica Gregson
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Refugee returns and reintegration in the context of state-building in South Sudan

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Toufic Haddad
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Political Economy of Neoliberal Conflict Resolution and Statebuilding in the Occupied Palestinian Territories - 1993 to the Present

Aziz Ahmad Hakimi
Aziz Hakimi

Between Assumptions and Practices: Negotiating Statehood in Contemporary Afghanistan


Joanna Hoare
Joanna Hoare

Gender and ‘active citizenship’ in the context of development intervention in Kyrgyzstan


Graham Hobbs
Graham Hobbs

British imperialism in Iraq, and its relation to US imperialism, since the end of the Cold War


Cynthia Howson
Cynthia Howson

Trafficking in Daily Necessities: Female Cross-Border Traders in Senegal.



Feyzi Ismail
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NGOs, social movements and the left in Nepal

Zulkarin Jahangir
Zulkarin Jahangir

'Complexity' through mobile phone led 'networking'; exploring financial benefits of rural residents in Bangladesh


Neha Kagal
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.

Alinafe Kasiya
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Decentralization, Participation, Accountability and District Development Planning in Malawi



Amrita Lamba
Amrita Lamba

Strong State-Society Synergy for Inclusive Natural Resources Governance: Comparing Brazil and South Africa

Sonia Languille
Sonia Languille

Political economy of education reforms in Africa: the case of secondary education expansion in Tanzania since 2000



David Mansfield
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Drug eradication and opium cultivation in Afghanistan

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Eliza Massi
Eliza Massi

Internationalization of Big Business in Brazil and South Africa: Liberalization and Changing State-Business Relations

Philippa McMahon
Philippa M McMahon

Labour Market Exposure and Eviction: The Impact of Development upon Cambodia's Urban Poor [working title]


Musa Mckee
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)


Lorenza Monaco
Lorenza Monaco

Global Production and Industrial Restructuring in India: Capital Strategies and Labour Practices within a Booming Automotive Sector (working title)


Umut Onder
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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.

Ana Oprisan
Ana Orpisan

The Roma in Turkey. From Survival Mechanisms to Development Strategies


Robtel Pailey
Robtel Pailey

The Love of Liberty Divided Us Here? Implications of Dual Citizenship on Liberia's Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development Processes

Aruna Pandey
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Institutional Models to Resolve Conflicts over Natural Resource Governance: Role of Community Enterprises and Solidarity Economy


Nayanka Paquete Perdigao
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(Working title) Perspectives on the failed State paradigm, Guinea-Bissau: A failed state or a state in the making?

Benjamin Petrini
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Policy Dilemmas of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) Programs: The Case of Colombia (provisional)



Marion Péchayre
Marion Péchayre

International non-governmental organisations and the politics of “triage” in conflict and natural disasters settings - Pakistan 2004-2012

Helena Pérez Niño
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Emerging land laws in sub-Saharan African war to peace transitions


Taimur Rahman
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An Analysis of the Class Structure of Contemporary Pakistan

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Siham Rayale
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The Politics of Peace: Accounting for Security in Women’s Political Participation In Somaliland (1991-2012)


Vincent Rich
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Carving a Life: the Political Economy of Woodcarver Livelihoods in Cabo Delgado, Northern Mozambique

Colin Robertson
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Oil, corruption and factionalism in Sudan and Chad

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Sarah Sabry
Sarah Sabry

Urban poverty and social policy: the role of non-state actors in Egypt


Florian Schaefer
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Agrarian change and agricultural commercialization in the Ethiopian coffee and floricultural sectors

Claudia Seymour
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Young people’s experiences of and means of coping with violence in North and South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo


Shalini Sharma
Shalini Sharma

Relationship between News Media and New Social Movements in India in an Age of Neoliberal Globalisation.

Mariyam Shiuna
Mariyam Shiuna

Working Title: Urban violence and disillusionment with democracy in the Maldives.


Lucy Stackpool-Moore
Lucy Stackpool Moore

'Narratives of Human Rights: Universal concepts brought into focus through lenses of life stories'


Farooq Sulehria
Muhammad Farooq Sulehria

Media imperialism in the age of globalization. The case of India and Pakistan.


Amaia Sánchez
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External Intervention in Peace Processes and conflict transformation; the case of Sri Lanka

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Sehin Teferra
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Occupational Hazard or Patriarchal Entitlement? : Feminist Analysis of the Dynamics of Violence in Ethiopian Sex Work (working title)

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Mark Tilzey
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The Political Ecology of the Food Sovereignty Movement in Nepal: Reconnecting Food, Nature and Community?

Mónica Unda
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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

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Hannah Vaughan-Lee
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Aiding the Status Quo of 'Post-Collapse': Humanitarian Assistance and the Political Processes of State-building in South Central Somalia 2007 - 2010


David Wearing
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?

Karin Wedig
Karin Wedig

Small, Beautiful And Struggling: Cooperatives And Labour Organisation In Uganda’s Liberalised Coffee Sector



Veli Yadirgi
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The Political Economy of the Kurdish Question of Turkey

Ahmet Zaifer
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Acceleration of Privatization Process in Turkey: why in the last decade?


Shuwan Zhang
Shuwan Zhang

Labour disputes of young generation migrant workers in China