Lord Aikins Adusei

An Island of Peace in an ocean of turbulence: Understanding the sources of Ghana’s stability and limited economic progress

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Heba Ali

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Prince Asafu-Adjaye

Trade Union Responses to Neoliberalism in Ghana

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Ponsiano Bimeny

Constructions of the State, Violence and Political Settlement in South Sudan

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Jacob Berah

The Role of UN Special Political Missions in Conflict

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Femi Bolaji

How Does Diaspora Finance Shape Infrastructure Development in Nigeria?

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Kira Brenner

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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 OFDI in Ethiopia: A Comparison of Light Manufacturing Industry and Construction Materials 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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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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Muhtar Habibi

Agrarian Capitalism in Neoliberal Indonesia: Class, Production and Reproduction

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Philip Hadley

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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

Sociology of work in conflict-affected communities: Labour, gender and violence in El-Rahad, 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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Claire Marcel

What is the relationship between immigration controls, labour market structures and experiences of precarity in different spheres of the lives of migrant workers in the cleaning and agricultural sectors in the UK? (working title)

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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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Manish Maskara

Identity of Bihari migrant labour in India's cities

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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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Cristina Mosneaga

Transition from informality to more formality of small and medium enterprises in Lagos, Nigeria

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Hassan Ould Moctar

EU Border Externalisation and the Postcolonial Conditioning of Contemporary Capitalism 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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Nicholas Pope

Urban Frontier Brokers: Paramilitaries, Violence and Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone

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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)

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Taylor Daniel Rockhill

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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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Christian Sowa

The Accommodation of Migrants in Berlin: Exploring the City and Urban Transformations (Working Title)

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Caitlin Sturridge

How can changing rural-urban livelihoods build households’ capacity to adapt to growing resource scarcity? A political ecology of mobility and translocality in Laikipia, Kenya (working title).

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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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Jessica Whelligan

Questioning BRTs: A win-win solution to public transport problems in developing countries? (ESRC-ITF collaborative studentship)

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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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Khadija Yakubu

GOVERNANCE AND SECURITY IN AFRICAN CITIES: Structures and Practices in Northern Nigeria for Sustainable Development; A Case Study of Kaduna Metropolis.

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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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