Heba Ali
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Department of Development Studies
PhD Students in the Department of Development Studies
Prince Asafu-Adjaye
Trade Union Responses to Neoliberalism in Ghana
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Jacob Berah
The Role of UN Special Political Missions in Conflict
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Jai Bhatia
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Lovleen Bhullar
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Femi Bolaji
How Does Diaspora Finance Shape Infrastructure Development in Nigeria?
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Joe Buckley
The relationship between changing working conditions and forms of labour activism in southern Vietnam's garment and textile industry
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Chris Büscher
Water and development in a variegated capitalism. Dutch water aid & trade development reproducing and transforming water access in Mozambique
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Enrique Castañon
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Weiwei Chen
The Dynamics of Chinese Private Outward Foreign Direct Investment in Ethiopia: A Comparison of Light Manufacturing Industry and Construction Material Industry
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Jean-Baptiste Damestoy
Governance capabilities, industrialisation and the state: the case of the cotton and textile sectors in Ethiopia
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Sila Demirors
Financialisation of the housing sector and urban transformation in Istanbul and Sao Paulo
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Dariusz Dziewanski
Institutionalized violence? Examining the role of informal institutions in armed violence in South Africa
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Sai Englert
The Defeat of Hebrew Labour: Neoliberalism, the Histadrut, and the labour movement in Israel
Francesco Formichella
The Value of the Global Value Chains: Fragmentation of Production, Vertically-Specialized Industrialization, and Uneven Capitalist Development (working title)
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Daniel Fuchs
Hegemony and Labour Politics in the People's Republic of China. Labour conflicts and hegemonic state strategies in the context of industrial relocation to Western China
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Maya Goodfellow
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Muhtar Habibi
Agrarian Capitalism in Neoliberal Indonesia: Class, Production and Reproduction
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Philip Hadley
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Sibylle Herzig van Wees
The Role of Faith Based Health Providers in context of Health Reforms in post-1990 Cameroon
Lamya (Sharmeen) Hussain
Dunam after Dunam: Transitions in Farming across the Jordan Valley
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Charlotte Hübner
“The Role of the Oil & Gas Sector in Late Industrialisation: Lessons from Malaysia” (Working Title)
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Catarina Inverso
From War to Peace as Conflict goes on: Reinventing the state of ignoring it? Assessing the activities of armed groups and trading networks in the border regions of DRC, Uganda and South Sudan (working title)
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Sarajuddin Isar
Taxation and state-building in Afghanistan, a political economy framework
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Karen Schouw Iversen
Navigating humanitarian biopolitics: housing policies and desplazado protests in Bogotá (working title)
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Safa Joudeh
Economic zones as spatial strategy in Egypt and Tunisia (working title)
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Matt Juden
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Hisae Kato
Jobs for Peace?: Labour Relations, Gender and Peacebuilding in Sudan
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Kaweh Kerami
Democratisation in the midst of war: Elections and Electoral politics in Afghanistan
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Kirstie Kwarteng
The Transnational Practices of Second Generation Ghanaians: A Comparative Study (Working Title)
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Iris Lim
Experiencing the Digital Governance Immigration: a Qualitative Comparison of London and Seoul
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Jayanthi (Jay) Lingham
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Neil Loughlin
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Shona Macleod
Talibés who beg in urban Senegal: how does global child rights discourse influence policy and practice?
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Daniel Marwecki
The German-Israeli Alliance and the Palestine Question. An Examination from the Postwar Era to the Present
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Manish Maskara
Identity of Bihari migrant labour in India's cities
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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)
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Tomaz M. Fares
The Chinese Agribusiness in the Global Soybean Commodity Chain
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Roshni Menon
Land-pooling for the ‘smart city’ of Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh: Inclusive development or land dispossession in a different guise?
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Marco Mogiani
The European and national policies on migration and asylum and their impact on the physiognomy of the port of entries and on the migration patterns in the Greek-Turkish border in the last twenty years. (Working title)
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Cristina Mosneaga
Transition from informality to more formality of small and medium enterprises in Lagos, Nigeria
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Nithya Natarajan
Globally-Directed and Locally-Experienced: the Impact of Global Health Governance upon Tobacco Farmers in Tamil Nadu (working title)
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Ana Oprisan
The Roma in Turkey. From Survival Mechanisms to Development Strategies
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Hassan Ould Moctar
EU Border Externalisation and the Social Conditions of 'Deportability' in Mauritania
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Aruna Pandey
Institutional Models to Resolve Conflicts over Natural Resource Governance: Role of Community Enterprises and Solidarity Economy
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Benjamin Petrini
The Political Economy of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) in Colombia: A Micro-Level Analysis of War-to-Peace Transition
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Nicholas Pope
(Dis)ordering functions of paramilitary groups in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2000-2017)
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Hashim Rashid
The Agrarian Question in West Punjab since 1885: The Politics of the Formation of a New Peasantry
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Alexander Ray
Rethinking the Local–international Dichotomy in Relation to Refugee Protection and Assistance: The Politics of Practice in Managing South Sudanese Displacement (working title)
Bilge Sahin
Bringing Justice to the People: Examining International Assistance to the DR Congo’s Judiciary and Its Impacts on Sexual Violence Crimes and Gender Power Relations in North-Kivu
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Fatemeh Sajjadi
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Nina Salsotto Cassina
Documenting resistance movements in the DRC: sites, forms and explanations (working title)
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Shreya Sinha
Agrarian Accumulation in Liberalised India: A Study of Capitalist Farmers in Punjab
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Christian Sowa
The Accommodation of Migrants in Berlin: Exploring the City and Urban Transformations (Working Title)
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Magdalena Suerbaum
Mosaics of masculinity - Gendering the experience of male Syrian refugees in Egypt
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Jo Tomkinson
National policymaking and the problem of policy space: A review of economic development strategies in Ethiopia and Vietnam (working title)
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Bereket Tsegay
Green Economy for Climate Mitigation and Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the Role of Carbon Finance in Ethiopia
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Misha Velthuis
Selling modernity - An ethnography of the everyday practice of supermarket chains in Mumbai
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Fernandes Wanda
Capitalist Transformation in Transition: Exploring business political elite linkage in post-war Angola (working title)
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Chris Weeks
Human trafficking in the wake of natural disaster: the case of Typhoon Haiyan
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Benjamin Whiston
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Aled Williams
Shaping Room for Manoeuvre: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation as a Forest Policy Choice in Indonesia (working title)
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Celal Özkızan
Neoliberalism in a Small Country: Social Structures, Property Ownership and Class Structure in Northern Cyprus
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