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Research

 

Current research interests include:

  • the politics of the body, with a particular interest in mobilization on sexual and reproductive rights;
  • new democratic institutions and the potential and practice of radical democracy in non-western settings;
  • states of citizenship - understanding everyday practices of citizenship in different kinds of states;
  • rethinking 'gender' in development, including in relation to work with/on men and masculinities;
  • development's colonial continuities.
I am involved in a number of international collaborative research programmes. I direct a DFID-funded Research Programme Consortium , which carries out collaborative research and communications on issues of body, voice and work in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine and Sierra Leone. I am also a member of the  and the IDS . 

In my work on development, I've published articles on , ,,, , , and . 

Articles drawing on my anthropological research include (Medical Anthropology, 2007),  ' (Social Anthropology, 2007), ' (American Ethnologist, 2002). 

I've also written articles for various online news sites and blogs on a range of issues including , and . 

Recent books include (co-edited with Jenny Edwards, IDS Bulletin, 2010), (Demos, 2009), (co-edited with Sonia Correa and Susie Jolly, Zed Books, 2008),(co-edited with Maxine Molyneux, Routledge, 2008), (co-edited with Elizabeth Harrison and Ann Whitehead, Blackwell, 2008). 

I'm also co-author of a truer-than-fiction account of life inside an aid bureaucracy .