Elsje Fourie
Biographic Data
| ID | 777887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elsje Fourie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elsje |
| FAMILY NAME | Fourie |
| SIGNATURE | FOURIE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1723-2230 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Socio-economic inequities in mental health problems and wellbeing among women working in the apparel and floriculture sectors: Testing the mediating role of psychological capital, social support and t…
The RCM can be applied in low-income countries, although in unexpected ways. Similar to findings from high-income countries, PsyCap and size of the financial social support network show significant mediation effects in explaining mental health problems and wellbeing inequities in Ethiopia. These reserves could therefore serve as a buffer for socio-economic inequities in mental health and wellbeing and can therefore assist in decreasing these ineq…
Climate Variability and Development Interventions Influence Migration Aspirations and Capabilities of Project Beneficiaries in Southern Ethiopia
In recent years, the European Union (EU) and other donors have increasingly instrumentalised their development cooperation to meet their own domestic migration policy goals, under the assumption that different development interventions—such as building climate resilience – may result in less outward migration from the recipient country. However, it is not yet understood how increased climate resilience would influence individual migration aspirat…
The Bitter and the Sweet: Managerial Perceptions of the Well-Being of Ethiopian Female Apparel and Horticultural Workers
Observers of Ethiopia’s entry into export-oriented global value chains generally agree that social upgrading is crucial if these chains’ largely female workforce is to reap the benefits of participation. They disagree, however, on the extent to which a ‘business case’ can be made to involve in this upgrading the managers who link frontline workers to international buyers. This article takes a novel approach to these questions by directly asking t…
Agency and Upgrading in Ethiopia's Global Production Networks: The Case of Ayka Addis
Ethiopia's quest for export-led industrialization through manufacturing is seen by many development economists as a test case for the larger potential of developmental states in Africa to benefit from global value chains. In recent years this quest has run into difficulties, prompting other scholars to question the social and economic advantages of this strategy. This article takes a novel approach to this question by examining the rise and fall …
Does Investor Origin Matter? The Multidimensional Well-Being and Mental Health of Female Workers in Foreign-Owned Flower Farms and Apparel Factories in Ethiopia
Investors from various origins in FDI employ a large number of female workers in Ethiopia, but one of the areas where there is lack of research is the well-being consequences of such jobs and whether these are uniform across investors from various origins. To address this gap, this study examined how investor origin is associated with the multidimensional well-being and mental health of female workers using survey data on 2,515 workers employed i…
Women’s social resilience in the context of male out-migration in Dehradun district, India
It is widely acknowledged that migration impacts men and women differently. Most prior research has looked at these effects on the migrants themselves, while those who remain in their places of origin have received less scholarly attention. This article investigates how male labor migration from the Dehradun district of India affects the wives who stay behind. It adopts a social resilience perspective by focusing on the opportunities and vulnerab…
On Watching Shoes Being Made in Addis Ababa
In this work of creative nonfiction, I use a visit to an Ethiopian shoe factory, where I observed the application of Japanese methods of productivity, as a lens to reflect on the ambiguities, inconsistencies, and ethical dilemmas thrown up both by such fieldwork and the larger project of promoting industrialization in Ethiopia. The reader is introduced to the cast of characters present that day and invited to follow many of them into settings bey…
Humanizing Industrialization: Japanese Productivity Methods, Ethiopian Factories, and Low Modernism in Foreign Aid
The past decade has seen a gradual convergence between the modernizing, top-down development agendas associated with “new donors” to Africa and the human development agenda more commonly linked to traditional donors. But while instruments such as the Sustainable Development Goals now demand both industrialization and empowerment, donors still struggle to reconcile these competing expectations. This article uses a variety of qualitative data to ex…
Sino-Angolan agricultural cooperation: Still not reaping rewards for the Angolan agricultural sector
This briefing examines the recent creation and downfall of seven Chinese-funded agro-industrial farms in Angola, and sees in the outcome of this initiative the latest demonstration of the difficulties in converting China’s and Angola’s resource-based relationship into a more economically sustainable and developmental partnership
The Intersection of East Asian and African Modernities: Towards a New Research Agenda
This article identifies strands of literature across several disciplines that seek to explore the ideational impact of the proliferating linkages between East Asian and African societies.It argues that these debates could more fruitfully engage with one another if their common concern is understood to be the intersection of modernities-broadly defined as societal self-understandings that wish to provide answers to collective economic, political a…
L’Éthiopie et le Kenya face au « modèle chinois » de développement: Une nouvelle carte pour l’Afrique
Depuis quelques années, l’hypothèse selon laquelle la Chine pourrait servir de modèle aux États africains connaît un engouement. Cet article examine l’influence au plan des idées et des valeurs, de la trajectoire de développement chinoise sur les élites de deux États africains : l’Éthiopie et le Kenya. Si ces élites cherchent des modèles de développement exemplaires au-delà de leurs frontières, elle ne voient dans la Chine qu’une source possible,…
China's example for Meles' Ethiopia: When Development 'Models' Land
The past decade has seen the rapid rise of concepts such as the 'China Model' and the 'Beijing Consensus', yet more recent trends suggest a waning of their popularity. This article finds that the problem with the literature on the China model lies less with the concept itself than with a tendency to apply the term in an atheoretical and unempirical manner. From 2005 until at least 2012, Ethiopian elites from the upper echelons downwards were inde…
Model students: Policy emulation, modernization, and Kenya's Vision 2030
Contemporary scholarship on policy making in Africa tends either to view the process as being entirely divorced from international policy lessons and experiences, or to portray policy makers as prone to unreflective imitation of whichever countries happen to be economically and politically ascendant. Kenya's Vision 2030 demonstrates both of these assumptions to be flawed: not only have Kenyan planners and technocrats consciously emulated foreign …
A future for the theory of multiple modernities: Insights from the new modernization theory
Resume In recent years, the concept of multiple modernities has emerged to challenge the perceived Eurocentrism and unilinearity of traditional theories of convergence, and has led to renewed efforts to appreciate differing trajectories of contemporary political and social development. Its exponents' key argument - that forms of modernity are so varied and contingent on culture and historical circumstance that the term itself must be spoken of in…
China's example for Meles' Ethiopia: When Development 'Models' Land
The past decade has seen the rapid rise of concepts such as the 'China Model' and the 'Beijing Consensus', yet more recent trends suggest a waning of their popularity. This article finds that the problem with the literature on the China model lies less with the concept itself than with a tendency to apply the term in an atheoretical and unempirical manner. From 2005 until at least 2012, Ethiopian elites from the upper echelons downwards were inde…
Model students: Policy emulation, modernization, and Kenya's Vision 2030
Contemporary scholarship on policy making in Africa tends either to view the process as being entirely divorced from international policy lessons and experiences, or to portray policy makers as prone to unreflective imitation of whichever countries happen to be economically and politically ascendant. Kenya's Vision 2030 demonstrates both of these assumptions to be flawed: not only have Kenyan planners and technocrats consciously emulated foreign …
A future for the theory of multiple modernities: Insights from the new modernization theory
Resume In recent years, the concept of multiple modernities has emerged to challenge the perceived Eurocentrism and unilinearity of traditional theories of convergence, and has led to renewed efforts to appreciate differing trajectories of contemporary political and social development. Its exponents' key argument - that forms of modernity are so varied and contingent on culture and historical circumstance that the term itself must be spoken of in…
Humanizing Industrialization: Japanese Productivity Methods, Ethiopian Factories, and Low Modernism in Foreign Aid
The past decade has seen a gradual convergence between the modernizing, top-down development agendas associated with “new donors” to Africa and the human development agenda more commonly linked to traditional donors. But while instruments such as the Sustainable Development Goals now demand both industrialization and empowerment, donors still struggle to reconcile these competing expectations. This article uses a variety of qualitative data to ex…
Sino-Angolan agricultural cooperation: Still not reaping rewards for the Angolan agricultural sector
This briefing examines the recent creation and downfall of seven Chinese-funded agro-industrial farms in Angola, and sees in the outcome of this initiative the latest demonstration of the difficulties in converting China’s and Angola’s resource-based relationship into a more economically sustainable and developmental partnership
The Intersection of East Asian and African Modernities: Towards a New Research Agenda
This article identifies strands of literature across several disciplines that seek to explore the ideational impact of the proliferating linkages between East Asian and African societies.It argues that these debates could more fruitfully engage with one another if their common concern is understood to be the intersection of modernities-broadly defined as societal self-understandings that wish to provide answers to collective economic, political a…
L’Éthiopie et le Kenya face au « modèle chinois » de développement: Une nouvelle carte pour l’Afrique
Depuis quelques années, l’hypothèse selon laquelle la Chine pourrait servir de modèle aux États africains connaît un engouement. Cet article examine l’influence au plan des idées et des valeurs, de la trajectoire de développement chinoise sur les élites de deux États africains : l’Éthiopie et le Kenya. Si ces élites cherchent des modèles de développement exemplaires au-delà de leurs frontières, elle ne voient dans la Chine qu’une source possible,…
A future for the theory of multiple modernities: Insights from the new modernization theory
Resume In recent years, the concept of multiple modernities has emerged to challenge the perceived Eurocentrism and unilinearity of traditional theories of convergence, and has led to renewed efforts to appreciate differing trajectories of contemporary political and social development. Its exponents' key argument - that forms of modernity are so varied and contingent on culture and historical circumstance that the term itself must be spoken of in…
Model students: Policy emulation, modernization, and Kenya's Vision 2030
Contemporary scholarship on policy making in Africa tends either to view the process as being entirely divorced from international policy lessons and experiences, or to portray policy makers as prone to unreflective imitation of whichever countries happen to be economically and politically ascendant. Kenya's Vision 2030 demonstrates both of these assumptions to be flawed: not only have Kenyan planners and technocrats consciously emulated foreign …
China's example for Meles' Ethiopia: When Development 'Models' Land
The past decade has seen the rapid rise of concepts such as the 'China Model' and the 'Beijing Consensus', yet more recent trends suggest a waning of their popularity. This article finds that the problem with the literature on the China model lies less with the concept itself than with a tendency to apply the term in an atheoretical and unempirical manner. From 2005 until at least 2012, Ethiopian elites from the upper echelons downwards were inde…
L’Éthiopie et le Kenya face au « modèle chinois » de développement: Une nouvelle carte pour l’Afrique
Depuis quelques années, l’hypothèse selon laquelle la Chine pourrait servir de modèle aux États africains connaît un engouement. Cet article examine l’influence au plan des idées et des valeurs, de la trajectoire de développement chinoise sur les élites de deux États africains : l’Éthiopie et le Kenya. Si ces élites cherchent des modèles de développement exemplaires au-delà de leurs frontières, elle ne voient dans la Chine qu’une source possible,…
The Intersection of East Asian and African Modernities: Towards a New Research Agenda
This article identifies strands of literature across several disciplines that seek to explore the ideational impact of the proliferating linkages between East Asian and African societies.It argues that these debates could more fruitfully engage with one another if their common concern is understood to be the intersection of modernities-broadly defined as societal self-understandings that wish to provide answers to collective economic, political a…
Sino-Angolan agricultural cooperation: Still not reaping rewards for the Angolan agricultural sector
This briefing examines the recent creation and downfall of seven Chinese-funded agro-industrial farms in Angola, and sees in the outcome of this initiative the latest demonstration of the difficulties in converting China’s and Angola’s resource-based relationship into a more economically sustainable and developmental partnership
Humanizing Industrialization: Japanese Productivity Methods, Ethiopian Factories, and Low Modernism in Foreign Aid
The past decade has seen a gradual convergence between the modernizing, top-down development agendas associated with “new donors” to Africa and the human development agenda more commonly linked to traditional donors. But while instruments such as the Sustainable Development Goals now demand both industrialization and empowerment, donors still struggle to reconcile these competing expectations. This article uses a variety of qualitative data to ex…
Climate Variability and Development Interventions Influence Migration Aspirations and Capabilities of Project Beneficiaries in Southern Ethiopia
In recent years, the European Union (EU) and other donors have increasingly instrumentalised their development cooperation to meet their own domestic migration policy goals, under the assumption that different development interventions—such as building climate resilience – may result in less outward migration from the recipient country. However, it is not yet understood how increased climate resilience would influence individual migration aspirat…
The Bitter and the Sweet: Managerial Perceptions of the Well-Being of Ethiopian Female Apparel and Horticultural Workers
Observers of Ethiopia’s entry into export-oriented global value chains generally agree that social upgrading is crucial if these chains’ largely female workforce is to reap the benefits of participation. They disagree, however, on the extent to which a ‘business case’ can be made to involve in this upgrading the managers who link frontline workers to international buyers. This article takes a novel approach to these questions by directly asking t…
Agency and Upgrading in Ethiopia's Global Production Networks: The Case of Ayka Addis
Ethiopia's quest for export-led industrialization through manufacturing is seen by many development economists as a test case for the larger potential of developmental states in Africa to benefit from global value chains. In recent years this quest has run into difficulties, prompting other scholars to question the social and economic advantages of this strategy. This article takes a novel approach to this question by examining the rise and fall …
Does Investor Origin Matter? The Multidimensional Well-Being and Mental Health of Female Workers in Foreign-Owned Flower Farms and Apparel Factories in Ethiopia
Investors from various origins in FDI employ a large number of female workers in Ethiopia, but one of the areas where there is lack of research is the well-being consequences of such jobs and whether these are uniform across investors from various origins. To address this gap, this study examined how investor origin is associated with the multidimensional well-being and mental health of female workers using survey data on 2,515 workers employed i…
Women’s social resilience in the context of male out-migration in Dehradun district, India
It is widely acknowledged that migration impacts men and women differently. Most prior research has looked at these effects on the migrants themselves, while those who remain in their places of origin have received less scholarly attention. This article investigates how male labor migration from the Dehradun district of India affects the wives who stay behind. It adopts a social resilience perspective by focusing on the opportunities and vulnerab…
On Watching Shoes Being Made in Addis Ababa
In this work of creative nonfiction, I use a visit to an Ethiopian shoe factory, where I observed the application of Japanese methods of productivity, as a lens to reflect on the ambiguities, inconsistencies, and ethical dilemmas thrown up both by such fieldwork and the larger project of promoting industrialization in Ethiopia. The reader is introduced to the cast of characters present that day and invited to follow many of them into settings bey…
Socio-economic inequities in mental health problems and wellbeing among women working in the apparel and floriculture sectors: Testing the mediating role of psychological capital, social support and t…
The RCM can be applied in low-income countries, although in unexpected ways. Similar to findings from high-income countries, PsyCap and size of the financial social support network show significant mediation effects in explaining mental health problems and wellbeing inequities in Ethiopia. These reserves could therefore serve as a buffer for socio-economic inequities in mental health and wellbeing and can therefore assist in decreasing these ineq…
Economics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · International Development and Aid (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Geography (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Clothing (3 works) · Law (3 works)