Griet Steel
Biographic Data
| ID | 189140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Griet Steel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Griet |
| FAMILY NAME | Steel |
| SIGNATURE | STEEL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2381-2872 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 402 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Changing labour dynamics in the decarbonisation process in Mozambique’s coal frontier
Scholars argue that the rise of neoliberal mining and outsourcing has created a more fragmented working class and precarious working environment for mineworkers in the global South. Less examined is how climate change and the decarbonisation process have further restructured the labour dynamics. In the late 2000s, with the surge in global commodity prices, Tete province in Mozambique emerged as a coal frontier. However, long-established multinati…
Kenyan agri-businesswomen including small farmers in the value chain: Are they “agents of change”
Purpose Development organizations expect agri-businesswomen to act as “agents of change” in development by including small farmers in the value chain, especially women, and in doing so, contribute to the SDGs. By empirically studying how Kenyan agri-businesswomen do this and how small farmers perceive the impact, this article examines whether they are fulfilling these expectations. Design/methodology/approach Inspired by feminist standpoint theor…
Learning from Africana critical theory: A historicized contextualization of the impacts of Mozambique's natural gas project
Over the past decade, Mozambique's liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in the province of Cabo Delgado has symbolized a new development opportunity for the country. The project attracted foreign investments to the province, and the national government has used it to showcase its progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The project however also introduced various socioeconomic ills including the displacement of over 10,000 peo…
Exploring synergies between the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and involuntary resettlement guidelines: The case of Mozambique’s natural gas project
This paper explores synergies between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, comprised of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as its roadmap, and existing involuntary resettlement guidelines. On one hand, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development views displacement as a humanitarian problem but fails to address the potential effects of SDG-induced processes of economic and physical displacement and involuntary resettlement. On the oth…
Going global – going digital. Diaspora networks and female online entrepreneurship in Khartoum, Sudan
The link between transnational migration and new information and communication technologies (ICTs) is of crucial importance for the way small-scale entrepreneurs in African cities capitalize on development. In Khartoum, well-educated women increasingly start businesses through digital mediation (communication mediated through digital devices such as networked computers and smartphones) by making use of social media platforms to develop digital co…
Self-builder landlordism: Exploring the supply and production of private rental housing in Dar es Salaam and Mwanza
Urban Transformations and Land Governance in Peri‐Urban Khartoum: The Case of Soba
The New Urban Agenda and SDG 11 promote inclusive urban development, but limited empirical knowledge exists on how such global rhetoric plays out on the ground. This paper contributes to the inclusive city debate by focusing on the case of Soba, a peri‐urban area at the fringes of the capital of Sudan. Based on an explorative study of secondary material, semi‐structured interviews and structured observations it aims to systematically analyse the …
Incremental housing as a node for intersecting flows of city-making: Rethinking the housing shortage in the global South
Incremental housing drives urbanization worldwide, and is recognized as the basis for socially relevant solutions to housing shortages in the global South. However, scholarship on incremental housing continues to focus largely on tenure, building materials and housing conditions at a local level, while incremental housing is embedded in – and dependent on – larger urban and regional systems and flows. We argue that a further reconceptualization o…
Land in urban debates: Unpacking the grab–development dichotomy
On the heels of the rural ‘land grab’ debate, the ongoing urban transition combined with large-scale urban infrastructure investments and land scarcity forces us to also pay more attention to issues of land in urban discussions. Yet how can we conceptualise land-related problems in order to connect and integrate rural and urban debates in overarching discussions of development? In this commentary, we argue for moving beyond the directly visible o…
In Memoriam: Jonathan Baker
Multi-activity, Multi-locality and Small-Town Development in Cameroon, Ghana, Rwanda and Tanzania
Revisiting Rural–Urban Transformations and Small Town Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Re-routing migration geographies: Migrants, trajectories and mobility regimes
The Rush for Land in an Urbanizing World: From Land Grabbing Toward Developing Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable Cities and Landscapes
The urban land debate in the global South: New avenues for research
Navigating (im)mobility: Female entrepreneurship and social media in Khartoum
Through Facebook and other social media, a growing number of well-educated women in Khartoum are marketing and selling typically female personal care and beauty items online. These ‘ tajirat al-Facebook ’ (or Facebook traders) are the new entrepreneurs of Sudan who work from home to run their businesses and widen their social circles. Relying on the urban infrastructure of mobile phones, delivery boys, digital connectivity and online platforms, t…
Lifestyle migration and socio-spatial segregation in the urban(izing) landscapes of Cuenca (Ecuador) and Guanacaste (Costa Rica)
Following Migrant Trajectories: The Im/Mobility of Sub-Saharan Africans en Route to the European Union
We use two trajectory ethnographies that follow the migration processes of Sudanese and Nigerians heading for the European Union across space and time, to explore how the main theoretical principles of the mobilities debate add value to transnational migration research. We thereby particularly appreciate the relational ontology of the mobilities approach and its analytical focus on the differentiation of power and experiences in mobility processe…
Mining and Tourism: Urban Transformations in the Intermediate Cities of Cajamarca and Cusco, Peru
In recent decades, the exponential growth of tourism and mining in Cusco and Cajamarca has made these two intermediate cities in the Peruvian Andes important on the global economic scene. Foreign direct investment in these industries has attracted internal and transnational migrants who now dominate the lucrative real estate and labor markets in these cities. Residents have been driven to the peripheries, and there is a sharp contrast between tho…
Local encounters with globetrotters
Whose Paradise? Itinerant Street Vendors' Individual and Collective Practices of Political Agency in the Tourist Streets of Cusco, Peru
The focus of recent studies on street vending in Latin American cities has made a noteworthy shift from street vendors' conflicts with local governments to their resistance strategies. These studies explore how street vendors organize themselves against political repression and consider resistance in terms of collective action or organized protest. However, this article challenges this narrow focus on collective resistance strategies by analysing…
Mobility, translocal development and the shaping of development corridors in (semi-)rural Nicaragua
This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the linkages between mobility and development by exploring the concept of translocal development, proposed in this special issue. Based on empirical field research in Matiguas and Muy Muy, it analyses how mobility shapes the livelihoods of (semi-)rural households in Nicaragua and explores how the different household members use physical movement as a livelihood asset. It argues that (semi-)rural dwel…
Social mobility in the Central Andes of Peru and Bolivia: Towards a more dynamic and multi-local vision of poverty alleviation
This article aims to provide a better understanding of the way in which a dynamic and multi-local view of poverty can be integrated in development planning processes. Drawing on empirical research carried out in the department of Cusco in the Peruvian Andes and in the southern Andes of Bolivia, the article demonstrates the interdependence of rural and urban livelihoods. It discusses differences and continuities in social mobility among rural and …
Gender and Political Behaviour in Japan
Although the literature on Japanese women's political behaviour is growing, no comprehensive account yet exists. To contribute to this body of research, this paper surveys aspects of Japanese women's electoral behaviour and interest in elections during the last 30 years. In contrast to some commentators, I argue, first, that much similarity exists between women's and men's political behaviour and, second, that women are not uninvolved in or unint…
Re-routing migration geographies: Migrants, trajectories and mobility regimes
Following Migrant Trajectories: The Im/Mobility of Sub-Saharan Africans en Route to the European Union
We use two trajectory ethnographies that follow the migration processes of Sudanese and Nigerians heading for the European Union across space and time, to explore how the main theoretical principles of the mobilities debate add value to transnational migration research. We thereby particularly appreciate the relational ontology of the mobilities approach and its analytical focus on the differentiation of power and experiences in mobility processe…
The Rush for Land in an Urbanizing World: From Land Grabbing Toward Developing Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable Cities and Landscapes
The urban land debate in the global South: New avenues for research
Whose Paradise? Itinerant Street Vendors' Individual and Collective Practices of Political Agency in the Tourist Streets of Cusco, Peru
The focus of recent studies on street vending in Latin American cities has made a noteworthy shift from street vendors' conflicts with local governments to their resistance strategies. These studies explore how street vendors organize themselves against political repression and consider resistance in terms of collective action or organized protest. However, this article challenges this narrow focus on collective resistance strategies by analysing…
Incremental housing as a node for intersecting flows of city-making: Rethinking the housing shortage in the global South
Incremental housing drives urbanization worldwide, and is recognized as the basis for socially relevant solutions to housing shortages in the global South. However, scholarship on incremental housing continues to focus largely on tenure, building materials and housing conditions at a local level, while incremental housing is embedded in – and dependent on – larger urban and regional systems and flows. We argue that a further reconceptualization o…
Lifestyle migration and socio-spatial segregation in the urban(izing) landscapes of Cuenca (Ecuador) and Guanacaste (Costa Rica)
Revisiting Rural–Urban Transformations and Small Town Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Going global – going digital. Diaspora networks and female online entrepreneurship in Khartoum, Sudan
The link between transnational migration and new information and communication technologies (ICTs) is of crucial importance for the way small-scale entrepreneurs in African cities capitalize on development. In Khartoum, well-educated women increasingly start businesses through digital mediation (communication mediated through digital devices such as networked computers and smartphones) by making use of social media platforms to develop digital co…
Navigating (im)mobility: Female entrepreneurship and social media in Khartoum
Through Facebook and other social media, a growing number of well-educated women in Khartoum are marketing and selling typically female personal care and beauty items online. These ‘ tajirat al-Facebook ’ (or Facebook traders) are the new entrepreneurs of Sudan who work from home to run their businesses and widen their social circles. Relying on the urban infrastructure of mobile phones, delivery boys, digital connectivity and online platforms, t…
Local encounters with globetrotters
Mobility, translocal development and the shaping of development corridors in (semi-)rural Nicaragua
This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the linkages between mobility and development by exploring the concept of translocal development, proposed in this special issue. Based on empirical field research in Matiguas and Muy Muy, it analyses how mobility shapes the livelihoods of (semi-)rural households in Nicaragua and explores how the different household members use physical movement as a livelihood asset. It argues that (semi-)rural dwel…
Land in urban debates: Unpacking the grab–development dichotomy
On the heels of the rural ‘land grab’ debate, the ongoing urban transition combined with large-scale urban infrastructure investments and land scarcity forces us to also pay more attention to issues of land in urban discussions. Yet how can we conceptualise land-related problems in order to connect and integrate rural and urban debates in overarching discussions of development? In this commentary, we argue for moving beyond the directly visible o…
Social mobility in the Central Andes of Peru and Bolivia: Towards a more dynamic and multi-local vision of poverty alleviation
This article aims to provide a better understanding of the way in which a dynamic and multi-local view of poverty can be integrated in development planning processes. Drawing on empirical research carried out in the department of Cusco in the Peruvian Andes and in the southern Andes of Bolivia, the article demonstrates the interdependence of rural and urban livelihoods. It discusses differences and continuities in social mobility among rural and …
Mining and Tourism: Urban Transformations in the Intermediate Cities of Cajamarca and Cusco, Peru
In recent decades, the exponential growth of tourism and mining in Cusco and Cajamarca has made these two intermediate cities in the Peruvian Andes important on the global economic scene. Foreign direct investment in these industries has attracted internal and transnational migrants who now dominate the lucrative real estate and labor markets in these cities. Residents have been driven to the peripheries, and there is a sharp contrast between tho…
Self-builder landlordism: Exploring the supply and production of private rental housing in Dar es Salaam and Mwanza
Multi-activity, Multi-locality and Small-Town Development in Cameroon, Ghana, Rwanda and Tanzania
Exploring synergies between the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and involuntary resettlement guidelines: The case of Mozambique’s natural gas project
This paper explores synergies between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, comprised of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as its roadmap, and existing involuntary resettlement guidelines. On one hand, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development views displacement as a humanitarian problem but fails to address the potential effects of SDG-induced processes of economic and physical displacement and involuntary resettlement. On the oth…
Urban Transformations and Land Governance in Peri‐Urban Khartoum: The Case of Soba
The New Urban Agenda and SDG 11 promote inclusive urban development, but limited empirical knowledge exists on how such global rhetoric plays out on the ground. This paper contributes to the inclusive city debate by focusing on the case of Soba, a peri‐urban area at the fringes of the capital of Sudan. Based on an explorative study of secondary material, semi‐structured interviews and structured observations it aims to systematically analyse the …
Learning from Africana critical theory: A historicized contextualization of the impacts of Mozambique's natural gas project
Over the past decade, Mozambique's liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in the province of Cabo Delgado has symbolized a new development opportunity for the country. The project attracted foreign investments to the province, and the national government has used it to showcase its progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The project however also introduced various socioeconomic ills including the displacement of over 10,000 peo…
Gender and Political Behaviour in Japan
Although the literature on Japanese women's political behaviour is growing, no comprehensive account yet exists. To contribute to this body of research, this paper surveys aspects of Japanese women's electoral behaviour and interest in elections during the last 30 years. In contrast to some commentators, I argue, first, that much similarity exists between women's and men's political behaviour and, second, that women are not uninvolved in or unint…
Social mobility in the Central Andes of Peru and Bolivia: Towards a more dynamic and multi-local vision of poverty alleviation
This article aims to provide a better understanding of the way in which a dynamic and multi-local view of poverty can be integrated in development planning processes. Drawing on empirical research carried out in the department of Cusco in the Peruvian Andes and in the southern Andes of Bolivia, the article demonstrates the interdependence of rural and urban livelihoods. It discusses differences and continuities in social mobility among rural and …
Mobility, translocal development and the shaping of development corridors in (semi-)rural Nicaragua
This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the linkages between mobility and development by exploring the concept of translocal development, proposed in this special issue. Based on empirical field research in Matiguas and Muy Muy, it analyses how mobility shapes the livelihoods of (semi-)rural households in Nicaragua and explores how the different household members use physical movement as a livelihood asset. It argues that (semi-)rural dwel…
Local encounters with globetrotters
Whose Paradise? Itinerant Street Vendors' Individual and Collective Practices of Political Agency in the Tourist Streets of Cusco, Peru
The focus of recent studies on street vending in Latin American cities has made a noteworthy shift from street vendors' conflicts with local governments to their resistance strategies. These studies explore how street vendors organize themselves against political repression and consider resistance in terms of collective action or organized protest. However, this article challenges this narrow focus on collective resistance strategies by analysing…
Mining and Tourism: Urban Transformations in the Intermediate Cities of Cajamarca and Cusco, Peru
In recent decades, the exponential growth of tourism and mining in Cusco and Cajamarca has made these two intermediate cities in the Peruvian Andes important on the global economic scene. Foreign direct investment in these industries has attracted internal and transnational migrants who now dominate the lucrative real estate and labor markets in these cities. Residents have been driven to the peripheries, and there is a sharp contrast between tho…
Following Migrant Trajectories: The Im/Mobility of Sub-Saharan Africans en Route to the European Union
We use two trajectory ethnographies that follow the migration processes of Sudanese and Nigerians heading for the European Union across space and time, to explore how the main theoretical principles of the mobilities debate add value to transnational migration research. We thereby particularly appreciate the relational ontology of the mobilities approach and its analytical focus on the differentiation of power and experiences in mobility processe…
Lifestyle migration and socio-spatial segregation in the urban(izing) landscapes of Cuenca (Ecuador) and Guanacaste (Costa Rica)
The Rush for Land in an Urbanizing World: From Land Grabbing Toward Developing Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable Cities and Landscapes
The urban land debate in the global South: New avenues for research
Navigating (im)mobility: Female entrepreneurship and social media in Khartoum
Through Facebook and other social media, a growing number of well-educated women in Khartoum are marketing and selling typically female personal care and beauty items online. These ‘ tajirat al-Facebook ’ (or Facebook traders) are the new entrepreneurs of Sudan who work from home to run their businesses and widen their social circles. Relying on the urban infrastructure of mobile phones, delivery boys, digital connectivity and online platforms, t…
In Memoriam: Jonathan Baker
Multi-activity, Multi-locality and Small-Town Development in Cameroon, Ghana, Rwanda and Tanzania
Revisiting Rural–Urban Transformations and Small Town Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Re-routing migration geographies: Migrants, trajectories and mobility regimes
Incremental housing as a node for intersecting flows of city-making: Rethinking the housing shortage in the global South
Incremental housing drives urbanization worldwide, and is recognized as the basis for socially relevant solutions to housing shortages in the global South. However, scholarship on incremental housing continues to focus largely on tenure, building materials and housing conditions at a local level, while incremental housing is embedded in – and dependent on – larger urban and regional systems and flows. We argue that a further reconceptualization o…
Land in urban debates: Unpacking the grab–development dichotomy
On the heels of the rural ‘land grab’ debate, the ongoing urban transition combined with large-scale urban infrastructure investments and land scarcity forces us to also pay more attention to issues of land in urban discussions. Yet how can we conceptualise land-related problems in order to connect and integrate rural and urban debates in overarching discussions of development? In this commentary, we argue for moving beyond the directly visible o…
Self-builder landlordism: Exploring the supply and production of private rental housing in Dar es Salaam and Mwanza
Urban Transformations and Land Governance in Peri‐Urban Khartoum: The Case of Soba
The New Urban Agenda and SDG 11 promote inclusive urban development, but limited empirical knowledge exists on how such global rhetoric plays out on the ground. This paper contributes to the inclusive city debate by focusing on the case of Soba, a peri‐urban area at the fringes of the capital of Sudan. Based on an explorative study of secondary material, semi‐structured interviews and structured observations it aims to systematically analyse the …
Going global – going digital. Diaspora networks and female online entrepreneurship in Khartoum, Sudan
The link between transnational migration and new information and communication technologies (ICTs) is of crucial importance for the way small-scale entrepreneurs in African cities capitalize on development. In Khartoum, well-educated women increasingly start businesses through digital mediation (communication mediated through digital devices such as networked computers and smartphones) by making use of social media platforms to develop digital co…
Learning from Africana critical theory: A historicized contextualization of the impacts of Mozambique's natural gas project
Over the past decade, Mozambique's liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in the province of Cabo Delgado has symbolized a new development opportunity for the country. The project attracted foreign investments to the province, and the national government has used it to showcase its progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The project however also introduced various socioeconomic ills including the displacement of over 10,000 peo…
Exploring synergies between the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and involuntary resettlement guidelines: The case of Mozambique’s natural gas project
This paper explores synergies between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, comprised of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as its roadmap, and existing involuntary resettlement guidelines. On one hand, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development views displacement as a humanitarian problem but fails to address the potential effects of SDG-induced processes of economic and physical displacement and involuntary resettlement. On the oth…
Changing labour dynamics in the decarbonisation process in Mozambique’s coal frontier
Scholars argue that the rise of neoliberal mining and outsourcing has created a more fragmented working class and precarious working environment for mineworkers in the global South. Less examined is how climate change and the decarbonisation process have further restructured the labour dynamics. In the late 2000s, with the surge in global commodity prices, Tete province in Mozambique emerged as a coal frontier. However, long-established multinati…
Kenyan agri-businesswomen including small farmers in the value chain: Are they “agents of change”
Purpose Development organizations expect agri-businesswomen to act as “agents of change” in development by including small farmers in the value chain, especially women, and in doing so, contribute to the SDGs. By empirically studying how Kenyan agri-businesswomen do this and how small farmers perceive the impact, this article examines whether they are fulfilling these expectations. Design/methodology/approach Inspired by feminist standpoint theor…
Political science (17 works) · Economics (16 works) · Geography (16 works) · Economic geography (14 works) · Economic growth (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Environmental planning (6 works)