Why did post‑colonial African states undertake controversial and sometimes harmful "development" initiatives?
Leander Schneider
- Associate Professor
- Department of Political Science
- Africa18
- rural reform2
- Tanzania2
- rural development7
- comparative politics10
- China-Africa3
- postcoloniality16
- clothing and dress6
- China7
- Maasai
- ujamaa vijijini
- villagization
- socialism2
- agricultural practices8
- modernization2
- social change21
- political economy of food15
- development studies13
- developing countries10
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Kimberley Manning
Chinese politics, Great Leap Forward, famine
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Andrew Ivaska
Africa, cultural history, global 1960s
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Amy Poteete
social change, rural development, electoral politics
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Bill Reimer
collective action, rural-urban interdependance, political economy of food
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Joshua Neves
emergent media, cultural theory, globalization
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Theresa Ventura
American history, empire, Philippines
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Jean François Mayer
Latin America, comparative politics, social movements
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Rick Molz
international business, developing countries, strategic management
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Ailie Cleghorn
sociology of education, comparative education, role of language in learning
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Sarah Ghabrial
Maghreb, French Empire, interactions with Islam
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Marguerite Mendell
civil society, political economy, cultural and social change
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Kevin Gould
political ecology, critical geography, Guatemala
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Thomas Prince
internship, Africa, experiential learning
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Aphrodite Salas
visual journalism, broadcasting studies, storytelling
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Govind Gopakumar
global engineering, urban infrastructure, social impacts of technology
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Warren Linds
psychosocial risk, theatre for social change, performative inquiry
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Océane Jasor
gender and sexuality, gender politics, decolonization
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Daniel Douek
war and organized violence, South Africa, insurgency/counterinsurgency
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Bengi Akbulut
political economy, heterodox economics, political ecology
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Kregg Hetherington
rural development, peasant land struggles, ecopolitics
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Satoshi Ikeda
world-system perspective, global futures, social economy
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Anna-Liisa Aunio
environmental sustainability, urban agriculture, environmental sociology
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Rachel Berger
India, human body, tradition/modernity
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Mehdi Farashahi
multinational enterprises (MNEs), local/global, globalization