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Department of Development Studies

Dr Michael Jennings

BA (Oxon); MA, PhD (London)

Overview

Michael Jennings
Department of Development Studies

Senior Lecturer

Centre of African Studies

Chair, Centre of African Studies

Development Policy, Aid, Institutions and Poverty Reduction Research Cluster

Research Cluster Convenor

Name:
Dr Michael Jennings
Email address:
Telephone:
0207 898 4268
Address:
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Building:
Russell Square: College Buildings
Office No:
261
Office Hours:
Monday 10-12

Biography

Michael has degrees from the University of Oxford and London (SOAS), and has taught and researched at Oxford and the Centre for Development Studies at Swansea University. His research interests include: the politics and history of development processes in sub-Saharan Africa: governance, civil society, non-governmental organisations and faith-based organisations; and social aspects of health in Africa.

Teaching

Programmes Convened
Courses Taught
PhD Students supervised
  • Alinafe Kasiya, Decentralization, Participation, Accountability and District Development Planning in Malawi
  • Edwige Fortier, Negotiating Spaces: How Organisations working with Marginalised Groups Manoeuvre in the Middle East and North Africa
  • Lucy Stackpool-Moore, 'Narratives of Human Rights: Universal concepts brought into focus through lenses of life stories'

Research

Michael’s research examines the emergence of development narratives over the past century, and conflicts between different narratives held by competing actors operating in the developmental space. In particular, he is interested in the multiple roles which ‘development’ as a process and idea takes on, and synergies between power, politics and development in the North and South. Michael has undertaken work on security issues in East Africa, including a survey of conflict, crime and security in Kenya. He has also worked on a diagnostic survey of DFID’s engagement with faith-based groups, East and Horn of Africa section. Michael is a regular contributor of expert briefing documents on a wide range of political, social and health issues in sub-Saharan Africa.

Expertise

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Experience

I am an Africa Expert for Oxford Analytica, for whom I have written briefing reports on African development, politics and health issues for the past five years. I have consultancy experience, including with DFID, and am a member of the Round Table Group. I am experienced in television and radio broadcasting.

Available for
  • TV
  • Radio
  • Press
  • Briefings
  • Special Study Programmes
  • Short Term Consultancy
  • Long Term Consultancy
Regional Expertise
  • Africa
Country Expertise
  • Kenya
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda
Languages

Publications

Jump to: Authored Books | Edited Books | Book Chapters | Articles

Authored Books

Jennings, Michael (2008) Surrogates of the State: Non-Governmental Organisations, Development and Ujamaa in Tanzania. Bloomfield, Ct: Kumarian Press.

Jennings, Michael (2007) Surrogates of the State. NGOs, Development, and Ujamaa in Tanzania. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press.

Edited Books

Jennings, Michael and Clarke, Gerard, eds. (2008) Development, Civil Society and Faith-Based Organisations: Bridging the Sacred and the Secular. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Jennings, Michael and Barrow, Ondine, eds. (2001) The Charitable Impulse: Non-Governmental Organisations in East and North-East Africa. James Currey Publishers.

Barrow, Ondine and Jennings, Michael, eds. (2001) The Charitable Impulse: NGOs and Development in East and North-East Africa. Oxford: James Currey.

Book Chapters

Jennings, Michael (2007) 'Missions and maternal and child health care in colonial Tanganyika, 1919-1939.' In: Hardiman, David, (ed.), Medical Missionaries in India and Africa. Clio Medica Press, pp. 227-250.

Jennings, Michael (2007) 'HIV and AIDS.' In: Oxford Analytica, Sub-Saharan Africa: Key Issues to 2012. Oxford: Oxford Analytica, pp. 60-66.

Jennings, Michael (2006) 'Tanzania, 2001-2002.' In: Africa Contemporary Record. New York: Holmes & Meier, pp. 540-559.

Jennings, Michael (2006) 'Using Archives.' In: Desai, Vandana and Potter, Robert, (eds.), Doing Development Research. Sage Publications, pp. 241-250.

Jennings, Michael (2005) 'A Short History of Failure? Development Processes over the Course of the Twentieth Century.' In: Huque, Ahmed Shafiqul and Zafarullah, Habib, (eds.), Handbook of International Development Governance. Marcel Dekker, pp. 599-610.

Jennings, Michael (2005) 'Getting the Research Questions Right and Getting the Right Data.' In: Holland, Jeremy and Campbell, John, (eds.), Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Development Research. ITDG Publications, pp. 27-36.

Jennings, Michael (2005) 'A Century of Development: Policy and Process in Sub-Saharan Africa.' In: Africa South of the Sahara. London: Europa, pp. 30-35.

Articles

Jennings, Michael (2007) '"A Very Real War": Popular Participation in Development in Tanzania During the 1950s & 1960s.' International Journal of African Historical Studies, 40 (1). pp. 71-95.

Jennings, Michael and Burton, Andrew (2007) 'The Emperor's New Clothes? Continuities in governance in late colonial and early post-colonial East Africa.' International Journal of African Historical Studies, 40 (1). pp. 1-25.

Jennings, Michael (2005) 'Chinese Medicine and Medical Pluralism in Dar es Salaam: Globalisation or Glocalisation?' International Relations, 19 (4). pp. 457-474.

Jennings, Michael (2003) ''We Must Run While Others Walk': Popular Participation and Development Crisis in Tanzania, 1961-9.' The Journal of Modern African Studies, 41 (2). pp. 163-187.

Jennings, Michael (2002) '"Almost an Oxfam in Itself": Oxfam, Ujamaa and Development in Tanzania in the 1960s and 70s.' African Affairs, 101 (405). pp. 509-30.

Jennings, Michael (2002) 'This Mysterious and Intangible Enemy: health and disease amongst the early UMCA missionaries 1860 - 1918.' Social History of Medicine, 15 (1). pp. 65-87.

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