Alex Shankland
Biographic Data
| ID | 216318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Shankland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Shankland |
| SIGNATURE | SHANKLAND A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4553-1676 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Engajamento cívico e transição energética justa em Moçambique: Perspectivas das comunidades locais
Este artigo analisa as dinâmicas das interacções entre organizações da sociedade civil, governos locais e o sector energético em três regiões-chave produtoras de energia em Moçambique: Inhambane, Tete e Cabo Delgado. Focaliza-se nos desafios e nas oportunidades para alcançar uma transição energética justa, num contexto político que prioriza investimentos e numa matriz energética predominantemente baseada em energia hidroeléctrica, gás natural e c…
Reclaiming the Cerrado – A Territorial Account of a Disputed Frontier
As global agri-food systems come under increasing stress, debates on their future have become highly polarised, exposing fundamental differences in understandings and priorities: industrial production versus traditional rights; short-term yields versus longer-term sustainability; cheap versus healthy food. Brazil is at the core of these debates, with the Cerrado being centre stage since the soybean-powered Green Revolution. Accompanied by defores…
Struggles for Justice in the Energy Transition: Voices from the Front Lines
A critical issue of our time is how the world can transition from a development model based on the extraction and use of fossil fuels to one based on cleaner sources of energy, and how it does so in a just and inclusive way. Central to this issue of the IDS Bulletin is the recognition that to be just, any transition must include consideration of the voices, knowledges, and realities of communities most affected. By bringing together authors from …
Civic Engagement and Just Energy Transition in Mozambique: Grass‐Roots Perspectives
This article analyses the dynamic interactions between civil society organisations, local government, and the energy sector within three key energy-producing regions of Mozambique: Inhambane, Tete, and Cabo Delgado. It focuses on the challenges and opportunities for achieving a just energy transition in a political landscape prioritising investments in an energy matrix predominantly based on hydroelectric power, natural gas, and coal. Drawing on …
Local governance networks as public authority: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar and Pakistan
Drawing upon ‘governance diaries,’ a method which used repeated interviews with a set of households and intermediaries in three countries—Mozambique, Myanmar and Pakistan—to understand how marginalised groups meet their daily governance needs, we argue that local governance networks constitute a form of public authority. The networks we examine encompass a range of local actors (state and non‐state), who help develop and enforce rules and ensure …
Complementarity of formal and informal actors and their networks in support of vulnerable populations in informal settlements: Governance diaries approach
Introduction: Beyond several interests and speculations on the relationship between formal and informal actors and their networks in support of vulnerable populations, most studies do not conclusively establish whether the two types of support are substitutes or complements. While informal care and formal care may be substitutes in general, they are complements among the vulnerable groups. Despite how some studies have described complementarity, …
Everyday governance in areas of contested power: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar, and Pakistan
Introduction: Reclaiming the Cerrado – A Territorial Account of a Disputed Frontier
As global agri-food systems come under increasing stress, debates on their future have become highly polarised, exposing fundamental differences in understandings and priorities: industrial production versus traditional rights; short-term yields versus longer-term sustainability; cheap versus healthy food. Brazil is at the core of these debates, with the Cerrado being centre stage since the soybean-powered Green Revolution. Accompanied by defores…
Glossary
This is the glossary for IDS Bulletin 54.1: Frontier Territories: Countering the Green Revolution Legacy in the Brazilian Cerrado
Introdução: Lutando pelo Cerrado – um olhar territorial sobre uma fronteira disputada
À medida que os sistemas agroalimentares globais estão sob crescente tensão, os debates sobre o seu futuro tornaram-se altamente polarizados, expondo diferenças fundamentais nos entendimentos e prioridades: produção industrial versus direitos tradicionais; rendimentos a curto prazo versus sustentabilidade a longo prazo; alimentos baratos versus alimentos saudáveis. O Brasil está no centro desses debates, sendo o Cerrado o centro das atenções desd…
Indigenous Leadership, Anthropology and Intercultural Communication for Covid-19 Response in the Rio Negro Indigenous Territory, Brazilian Amazonia
Around the world, Indigenous groups have been among the communities most severely affected by COVID-19, and the ability of health systems and social policy responses to support Indigenous responses to the pandemic has been affected by challenges of intercultural communication, sometimes compounded by racist and exclusionary social and political attitudes. The Brazilian Amazon has been a particularly extreme case. This article reflects on the expe…
Alternative Expressions of Citizen Voices: The Protest Song and Popular Engagements with the Mozambican State
This study examines Mozambican popular music to investigate three questions: Are notions of empowerment and accountability present in popular music in Mozambique? If so, what can these existing notions of empowerment and accountability reveal about relations between citizens and state institutions in general and about citizen-led social and political action in particular? In what ways is popular music used to support citizen mobilisation in Mozam…
Introduction: The accountability politics of reducing health inequalities: learning from Brazil and Mozambique
Inequality is a key political issue of our times. It has political consequences, fuelling conflict and raising legitimacy challenges for regimes around the world, in democratic and non‐demo‐ cratic settings alike. At the centre of these challenges is the question of accountability: who can be held accountable, on what basis, how and by whom for tackling or failing to tackle which inequalities. In the field of global health, inequality has long be…
Gestão, política e movimentos sociais no Distrito Sanitário Especial Indígena do Alto Rio Negro
Este artigo analisa a relação entre diferentes formas de accountability no contexto do Subsistema de Atenção à Saúde Indígena do Sistema Único de Saúde (SASI-SUS), por meio de um estudo de caso do Distrito Sanitário Especial Indígena (DSEI) do rio Negro, localizado no estado do Amazonas. A partir de um episódio de mobilização indígena iniciado após um surto de malária no DSEI, o estudo aponta alguns dilemas fundamentais decorrentes da incorporaçã…
Introduction: Accountability for Health Equity: Galvanising a Movement for Universal Health Coverage
In July 2017, IDS hosted a workshop on ‘Unpicking Power and Politics for Transformative Change: Towards Accountability for Health Equity’, with the aim of generating dialogue and mutual learning among activists, researchers, policymakers, and funders working towards more equitable health systems and a commitment to Universal Health Coverage (UHC). This issue of the IDS Bulletin is based around three principal themes that emerged from the workshop…
From Policy Transfer to Mutual Learning
The economic and geopolitical shifts of recent years have forced the oecd-dac member countries to offer greater recognition to the development cooperation activities of the BRICS and other rising powers, who claim to follow a different logic from the coercive policy transfer models associated with North-South development cooperation.At the same time, there has been rapid growth in international "mutual learning" outside the formal framework of de…
Imagining Agricultural Development in South–South Cooperation: The Contestation and Transformation of ProSavana
This paper discusses South–South cooperation by examining ProSAVANA, a flagship agricultural development program seeking to apply Brazilian experience to Mozambique. ProSAVANA is a joint Japan–Brazil–Mozambique initiative in the savannah zone of Mozambique’s Nacala Corridor region that was initially inspired by the Japan–Brazil PRODECER program in Brazil’s Cerrado region. ProSAVANA subsequently became the focus of fears about land-grabbing in the…
On the margins of aid orthodoxy: The Brazil-Mozambique collaboration to produce essential medicines in Africa
BACKGROUND: On the back of its recent economic development and domestic success in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Brazil is helping the Government of Mozambique to set up a pharmaceutical factory as part of its South-South cooperation programme. Until recently, a consensus existed that pharmaceutical production in Africa was not viable or sustainable. This paper looks into practicalities and evolution of this collaboration to illustrate the characte…
Brazil's engagement in health co-operation: What can it contribute to the global health debate
Brazil and other emerging powers, such as China and India, are becoming increasingly influential world players. As they expand their global recognition and the associated diplomatic influence and access to markets, these countries are multiplying their development co-operation efforts with low-income countries often located in the southern hemisphere (Kragelund 2008). Within this ‘South–South co-operation’ these so-called ‘emerging donors’ are pr…
Cultures of politics, spaces of power: Contextualizing Brazilian experiences of participation
Brazilian democratic innovation is gathering considerable international attention, spawning a growing interest in replicating the institutional designs of its participatory governance institutions in countries with very different political histories and cultures of governance. Drawing on ethnographic research in the north and north-east of the country, sites to which innovations developed in the south of Brazil have been institutionalized in very…
Brazil-Africa Agricultural Cooperation Encounters: Drivers, Narratives and Imaginaries of Africa and Development
Brazilian development cooperation is increasingly in the spotlight. Africa is a major destination and agriculture tops the list of priority fields on intervention, with Embrapa leading cooperation projects. But patterns of cooperation in Africa are changing as other public, private and civil society actors enter the realm of cooperation and bring along contrasting narratives and experiences of agricultural development. This article maps the evolv…
Real Time Monitoring with Indigenous Peoples: Technical, Social and Political Challenges, and Lessons from Brazil
The government of Brazil has introduced two health and nutrition monitoring systems (the Indigenous Health Care Information System (SIASI) and the Food and Nutrition Surveillance System for Indigenous People (SISVAN-I) as part of reforms to health care and social protection services for indigenous peoples, who have the worst health status of any population group in the country. This article covers the origins and development of these systems and …
Brazil and China in Mozambican Agriculture: Emerging Insights from the Field
Mozambique, a country undergoing rapid transformations driven by the recent discovery of mineral resources, is one of the top destinations of Chinese and Brazilian cooperation and investment in Africa. This article provides an account of the policies, narratives, operational modalities and underlying motivations of Brazilian and Chinese development cooperation in Mozambique. It is particularly interested in understanding how the engagements are p…
Prioritising PPCR Investments in Mozambique: The Politics of ‘Country Ownership’ and ‘Stakeholder Participation’
Mozambique is both one of the poorest countries and one with the highest level of vulnerability to multiple potential consequences of climate change, including drought, flood, sea level rise and increased frequency and severity of tropical cyclones – making it a natural candidate for inclusion in the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR), which aims to help poorer countries to integrate climate change response into their national developmen…
Indigenous Peoples and the Regulation of Redd+ in Brazil: Beyond the War of the Worlds
This article focuses on the actors, interests and ideologies shaping Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) regulation in Brazil, with a particular focus on indigenous territories. It examines the convergence of four parallel and potentially conflicting initiatives: a consultation exercise led by the federal Environment Ministry; the development of sub-national regulatory frameworks by states in the Amazon region; the…
Engaging citizens: Lessons from building Brazil's national health system
Imagining Agricultural Development in South–South Cooperation: The Contestation and Transformation of ProSavana
This paper discusses South–South cooperation by examining ProSAVANA, a flagship agricultural development program seeking to apply Brazilian experience to Mozambique. ProSAVANA is a joint Japan–Brazil–Mozambique initiative in the savannah zone of Mozambique’s Nacala Corridor region that was initially inspired by the Japan–Brazil PRODECER program in Brazil’s Cerrado region. ProSAVANA subsequently became the focus of fears about land-grabbing in the…
Brazil and China in Mozambican Agriculture: Emerging Insights from the Field
Mozambique, a country undergoing rapid transformations driven by the recent discovery of mineral resources, is one of the top destinations of Chinese and Brazilian cooperation and investment in Africa. This article provides an account of the policies, narratives, operational modalities and underlying motivations of Brazilian and Chinese development cooperation in Mozambique. It is particularly interested in understanding how the engagements are p…
Brazil-Africa Agricultural Cooperation Encounters: Drivers, Narratives and Imaginaries of Africa and Development
Brazilian development cooperation is increasingly in the spotlight. Africa is a major destination and agriculture tops the list of priority fields on intervention, with Embrapa leading cooperation projects. But patterns of cooperation in Africa are changing as other public, private and civil society actors enter the realm of cooperation and bring along contrasting narratives and experiences of agricultural development. This article maps the evolv…
Brazil's engagement in health co-operation: What can it contribute to the global health debate
Brazil and other emerging powers, such as China and India, are becoming increasingly influential world players. As they expand their global recognition and the associated diplomatic influence and access to markets, these countries are multiplying their development co-operation efforts with low-income countries often located in the southern hemisphere (Kragelund 2008). Within this ‘South–South co-operation’ these so-called ‘emerging donors’ are pr…
Cultures of politics, spaces of power: Contextualizing Brazilian experiences of participation
Brazilian democratic innovation is gathering considerable international attention, spawning a growing interest in replicating the institutional designs of its participatory governance institutions in countries with very different political histories and cultures of governance. Drawing on ethnographic research in the north and north-east of the country, sites to which innovations developed in the south of Brazil have been institutionalized in very…
Indigenous Peoples and the Regulation of Redd+ in Brazil: Beyond the War of the Worlds
This article focuses on the actors, interests and ideologies shaping Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) regulation in Brazil, with a particular focus on indigenous territories. It examines the convergence of four parallel and potentially conflicting initiatives: a consultation exercise led by the federal Environment Ministry; the development of sub-national regulatory frameworks by states in the Amazon region; the…
Decentralisation and Difference: Indigenous Peoples and Health System Reform in the Brazilian Amazon
Introduction: Reclaiming the Cerrado – A Territorial Account of a Disputed Frontier
As global agri-food systems come under increasing stress, debates on their future have become highly polarised, exposing fundamental differences in understandings and priorities: industrial production versus traditional rights; short-term yields versus longer-term sustainability; cheap versus healthy food. Brazil is at the core of these debates, with the Cerrado being centre stage since the soybean-powered Green Revolution. Accompanied by defores…
From Policy Transfer to Mutual Learning
The economic and geopolitical shifts of recent years have forced the oecd-dac member countries to offer greater recognition to the development cooperation activities of the BRICS and other rising powers, who claim to follow a different logic from the coercive policy transfer models associated with North-South development cooperation.At the same time, there has been rapid growth in international "mutual learning" outside the formal framework of de…
Reimagining Development with Indigenous People: Reflections from the São Gabriel da Cachoeira Workshop
Across the world, development is either failing or threatening indigenous peoples. The Brazil Reimagining Development event was held in the small Amazonian town of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, an important centre of indigenous political organisation which has recently elected an indigenous-led municipal administration. The discussions that took place there ranged across the themes of climate change, democratic governance and health system reform, an…
Introduction: The accountability politics of reducing health inequalities: learning from Brazil and Mozambique
Inequality is a key political issue of our times. It has political consequences, fuelling conflict and raising legitimacy challenges for regimes around the world, in democratic and non‐demo‐ cratic settings alike. At the centre of these challenges is the question of accountability: who can be held accountable, on what basis, how and by whom for tackling or failing to tackle which inequalities. In the field of global health, inequality has long be…
Decentralisation and Difference: Indigenous Peoples and Health System Reform in the Brazilian Amazon
Engaging citizens: Lessons from building Brazil's national health system
The Indigenous Peoples’ Movement, ‘forest citizenship’ and struggles over health services in Acre, Brazil
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Prioritising PPCR Investments in Mozambique: The Politics of ‘Country Ownership’ and ‘Stakeholder Participation’
Mozambique is both one of the poorest countries and one with the highest level of vulnerability to multiple potential consequences of climate change, including drought, flood, sea level rise and increased frequency and severity of tropical cyclones – making it a natural candidate for inclusion in the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR), which aims to help poorer countries to integrate climate change response into their national developmen…
Indigenous Peoples and the Regulation of Redd+ in Brazil: Beyond the War of the Worlds
This article focuses on the actors, interests and ideologies shaping Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) regulation in Brazil, with a particular focus on indigenous territories. It examines the convergence of four parallel and potentially conflicting initiatives: a consultation exercise led by the federal Environment Ministry; the development of sub-national regulatory frameworks by states in the Amazon region; the…
Reimagining Development with Indigenous People: Reflections from the São Gabriel da Cachoeira Workshop
Across the world, development is either failing or threatening indigenous peoples. The Brazil Reimagining Development event was held in the small Amazonian town of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, an important centre of indigenous political organisation which has recently elected an indigenous-led municipal administration. The discussions that took place there ranged across the themes of climate change, democratic governance and health system reform, an…
Cultures of politics, spaces of power: Contextualizing Brazilian experiences of participation
Brazilian democratic innovation is gathering considerable international attention, spawning a growing interest in replicating the institutional designs of its participatory governance institutions in countries with very different political histories and cultures of governance. Drawing on ethnographic research in the north and north-east of the country, sites to which innovations developed in the south of Brazil have been institutionalized in very…
Brazil-Africa Agricultural Cooperation Encounters: Drivers, Narratives and Imaginaries of Africa and Development
Brazilian development cooperation is increasingly in the spotlight. Africa is a major destination and agriculture tops the list of priority fields on intervention, with Embrapa leading cooperation projects. But patterns of cooperation in Africa are changing as other public, private and civil society actors enter the realm of cooperation and bring along contrasting narratives and experiences of agricultural development. This article maps the evolv…
Real Time Monitoring with Indigenous Peoples: Technical, Social and Political Challenges, and Lessons from Brazil
The government of Brazil has introduced two health and nutrition monitoring systems (the Indigenous Health Care Information System (SIASI) and the Food and Nutrition Surveillance System for Indigenous People (SISVAN-I) as part of reforms to health care and social protection services for indigenous peoples, who have the worst health status of any population group in the country. This article covers the origins and development of these systems and …
Brazil and China in Mozambican Agriculture: Emerging Insights from the Field
Mozambique, a country undergoing rapid transformations driven by the recent discovery of mineral resources, is one of the top destinations of Chinese and Brazilian cooperation and investment in Africa. This article provides an account of the policies, narratives, operational modalities and underlying motivations of Brazilian and Chinese development cooperation in Mozambique. It is particularly interested in understanding how the engagements are p…
On the margins of aid orthodoxy: The Brazil-Mozambique collaboration to produce essential medicines in Africa
BACKGROUND: On the back of its recent economic development and domestic success in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Brazil is helping the Government of Mozambique to set up a pharmaceutical factory as part of its South-South cooperation programme. Until recently, a consensus existed that pharmaceutical production in Africa was not viable or sustainable. This paper looks into practicalities and evolution of this collaboration to illustrate the characte…
Brazil's engagement in health co-operation: What can it contribute to the global health debate
Brazil and other emerging powers, such as China and India, are becoming increasingly influential world players. As they expand their global recognition and the associated diplomatic influence and access to markets, these countries are multiplying their development co-operation efforts with low-income countries often located in the southern hemisphere (Kragelund 2008). Within this ‘South–South co-operation’ these so-called ‘emerging donors’ are pr…
Imagining Agricultural Development in South–South Cooperation: The Contestation and Transformation of ProSavana
This paper discusses South–South cooperation by examining ProSAVANA, a flagship agricultural development program seeking to apply Brazilian experience to Mozambique. ProSAVANA is a joint Japan–Brazil–Mozambique initiative in the savannah zone of Mozambique’s Nacala Corridor region that was initially inspired by the Japan–Brazil PRODECER program in Brazil’s Cerrado region. ProSAVANA subsequently became the focus of fears about land-grabbing in the…
From Policy Transfer to Mutual Learning
The economic and geopolitical shifts of recent years have forced the oecd-dac member countries to offer greater recognition to the development cooperation activities of the BRICS and other rising powers, who claim to follow a different logic from the coercive policy transfer models associated with North-South development cooperation.At the same time, there has been rapid growth in international "mutual learning" outside the formal framework of de…
Introduction: Accountability for Health Equity: Galvanising a Movement for Universal Health Coverage
In July 2017, IDS hosted a workshop on ‘Unpicking Power and Politics for Transformative Change: Towards Accountability for Health Equity’, with the aim of generating dialogue and mutual learning among activists, researchers, policymakers, and funders working towards more equitable health systems and a commitment to Universal Health Coverage (UHC). This issue of the IDS Bulletin is based around three principal themes that emerged from the workshop…
Introduction: The accountability politics of reducing health inequalities: learning from Brazil and Mozambique
Inequality is a key political issue of our times. It has political consequences, fuelling conflict and raising legitimacy challenges for regimes around the world, in democratic and non‐demo‐ cratic settings alike. At the centre of these challenges is the question of accountability: who can be held accountable, on what basis, how and by whom for tackling or failing to tackle which inequalities. In the field of global health, inequality has long be…
Gestão, política e movimentos sociais no Distrito Sanitário Especial Indígena do Alto Rio Negro
Este artigo analisa a relação entre diferentes formas de accountability no contexto do Subsistema de Atenção à Saúde Indígena do Sistema Único de Saúde (SASI-SUS), por meio de um estudo de caso do Distrito Sanitário Especial Indígena (DSEI) do rio Negro, localizado no estado do Amazonas. A partir de um episódio de mobilização indígena iniciado após um surto de malária no DSEI, o estudo aponta alguns dilemas fundamentais decorrentes da incorporaçã…
Alternative Expressions of Citizen Voices: The Protest Song and Popular Engagements with the Mozambican State
This study examines Mozambican popular music to investigate three questions: Are notions of empowerment and accountability present in popular music in Mozambique? If so, what can these existing notions of empowerment and accountability reveal about relations between citizens and state institutions in general and about citizen-led social and political action in particular? In what ways is popular music used to support citizen mobilisation in Mozam…
Indigenous Leadership, Anthropology and Intercultural Communication for Covid-19 Response in the Rio Negro Indigenous Territory, Brazilian Amazonia
Around the world, Indigenous groups have been among the communities most severely affected by COVID-19, and the ability of health systems and social policy responses to support Indigenous responses to the pandemic has been affected by challenges of intercultural communication, sometimes compounded by racist and exclusionary social and political attitudes. The Brazilian Amazon has been a particularly extreme case. This article reflects on the expe…
Complementarity of formal and informal actors and their networks in support of vulnerable populations in informal settlements: Governance diaries approach
Introduction: Beyond several interests and speculations on the relationship between formal and informal actors and their networks in support of vulnerable populations, most studies do not conclusively establish whether the two types of support are substitutes or complements. While informal care and formal care may be substitutes in general, they are complements among the vulnerable groups. Despite how some studies have described complementarity, …
Everyday governance in areas of contested power: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar, and Pakistan
Introduction: Reclaiming the Cerrado – A Territorial Account of a Disputed Frontier
As global agri-food systems come under increasing stress, debates on their future have become highly polarised, exposing fundamental differences in understandings and priorities: industrial production versus traditional rights; short-term yields versus longer-term sustainability; cheap versus healthy food. Brazil is at the core of these debates, with the Cerrado being centre stage since the soybean-powered Green Revolution. Accompanied by defores…
Glossary
This is the glossary for IDS Bulletin 54.1: Frontier Territories: Countering the Green Revolution Legacy in the Brazilian Cerrado
Introdução: Lutando pelo Cerrado – um olhar territorial sobre uma fronteira disputada
À medida que os sistemas agroalimentares globais estão sob crescente tensão, os debates sobre o seu futuro tornaram-se altamente polarizados, expondo diferenças fundamentais nos entendimentos e prioridades: produção industrial versus direitos tradicionais; rendimentos a curto prazo versus sustentabilidade a longo prazo; alimentos baratos versus alimentos saudáveis. O Brasil está no centro desses debates, sendo o Cerrado o centro das atenções desd…
Local governance networks as public authority: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar and Pakistan
Drawing upon ‘governance diaries,’ a method which used repeated interviews with a set of households and intermediaries in three countries—Mozambique, Myanmar and Pakistan—to understand how marginalised groups meet their daily governance needs, we argue that local governance networks constitute a form of public authority. The networks we examine encompass a range of local actors (state and non‐state), who help develop and enforce rules and ensure …
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