Emma Mawdsley
Biographic Data
| ID | 80687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Mawdsley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Mawdsley |
| SIGNATURE | MAWDSLEY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0281-6858 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 943 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 17 |
Taking (anti‐)‘woke’ seriously: The future of development cooperation and humanitarian aid
Re‐Reading ‘Women's Voices from the Rainforest’
Women's Voices from the Rainforest. Janet Gabriel Townsend (in collaboration with Ursula Arrevillaga, Jennie Bain, Socorro Cancino, Susan F. Frenk, Silvana Pacheco and Elia Pérez). Routledge, London, UK and New York, USA, 1995, pp. viii + 212. ISBN 978-0-415-10532-3 (pbk). 2025 marks thirty years since the publication of Women's Voices from the Rainforest (WVFTR) by Routledge. Janet Gabriel Townsend was the lead author, with six collaborators lis…
South–South Cooperation and global development in a multipolar world: China and India in Africa
The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request
Introduction India as a ‘civilizational state’
Journal Article Introduction India as a 'civilizational state' Get access Emma Mawdsley Emma Mawdsley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 99, Issue 2, March 2023, Pages 427–432, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiad053 Published: 06 March 2023
Outsourcing the Business of Development: The Rise of For-profit Consultancies in the UK Aid Sector
While much attention has been paid to the ways in which the private sector is now embedded within the field of development, one group of actors - for-profit development consultancies and contractors, or service providers - has received relatively little attention. This article analyses the growing role of for-profit consultancies and contractors in British aid delivery, which has been driven by two key trends: first, the outsourcing of managerial…
Reading the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (2000-2021): Geoeconomics, governance, and embedding ‘creative involvement’
How China can promote its overseas commercial and strategic interests and protect its citizens and investments while continuing to adhere to a longstanding commitment to non-interference is a subject of intense policy and academic debate. A notion of ‘creative involvement’ has been developed to specify an increasingly flexible and pragmatic approach to projecting and managing China’s expanding global interests. In this research a close reading of…
Muddy Glee, 18 years later
In this short paper, we thank the authors of the papers in this special section, and briefly respond to their insightful and important contributions. We then each provide a brief account of how the 2004 paper emerged, and reflect on our fieldwork ‘journeys’ since its publication
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards celebration 2020 and 2021
The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) annual Medals and Awards recognise achievements in researching, communicating and teaching a wide range of geographical knowledge. The speeches and citations are a record of both the 2020 and 2021 celebrations, which were delayed and combined because of COVID-19, with contributions from Heather Viles, Andy Eavis, Rita Gardner, Jonathan Rigg, Chris Philo, Peter Kraftl, Patricia Noxolo, Emma Mawdsley and Ni…
Innovative Finance for Development? Vaccine Bonds and the Hidden Costs of Financialization
Innovative finance is now considered essential to mobilize the trillions projected as required to meet the sustainable development goals. The International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm), which issues vaccine bonds, is an emblematic example of innovative finance in global health and development. Since its launch in 2006, IFFIm has played a leading role in developing social bonds and funding global health, securing over $8 billion in do…
India's Development Diplomacy & Soft Power in Africa
Unpacks the histories, actors and geopolitics of India's soft power and evolving engagements with Africa. Since independence India has deployed its soft power in Africa, with educational aid and capacity-building at the heart of its Africa policy. However, following economic liberalisation and in a quest for greater global influence, India's geopolitics have changed. The country's discourse on Africa has shifted from the mantras of post-colonial …
Rethinking d/Development
A dialectical relationship between ‘big D’ Development (broadly, the formal interventionist, international Development sector) and little ‘d’ development (the immanent structures and processes of capitalism) is a concept widely invoked in Geography and Development Studies. In this paper, we ask how the d/Development dialectic is evolving under current conjunctures of emergent state capitalism(s). We suggest that, going beyond ‘containment’, Devel…
State Capitalism and the New Global D/development Regime
Official discourses of Development are being redefined. If the key geopolitical contexts shaping the post‐war Development project were decolonisation and the Cold War, the defining world‐historical transformations shaping the emerging vision of Development are the expansion of state capitalism and the rise of China. The IMF, the World Bank, the OECD, the G20, other multilaterals, and bilateral partners are increasingly taking stock of the rise of…
The politics of development geographies: New partners, transdisciplinary perspectives. A conversation with Emma Mawdsley
Queering Development? The Unsettling Geographies of South–South Cooperation
This paper deploys queer theory as a way of approaching South–South Cooperation (SSC). It examines the ways in which Southern development partners are not simply up‐ending the long‐standing spatialities, imaginaries and identities (re)produced through the mainstream international development regime, but queering terminologies and definitions, while presenting themselves in fluid ways, enrolling different identities and attributes in different pla…
South–South Cooperation 3.0? Managing the consequences of success in the decade ahead
This paper examines the consequences of the hugely successful expansion of South-South Cooperation since the new millennium. For all the achievements, variations and change over the 1950s-late 1990s, ‘SSC 1.0’ was characterised by relative neglect within the 'international' development community, and by many orthodox and critical scholars. In the chronological schema of the paper, ‘SSC 2.0’ refers to the period of remarkable expansion from the ea…
From billions to trillions’: Financing the SDGs in a world ‘beyond aid’
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) require and are helping normalize a radical shift in development finance. The previous focus on raising donor contributions in the form of Official Development Assistance (ODA, or ‘foreign aid’) is being surpassed by the call for private finance to fund the SDGs. A growing role for ODA in this vision of moving from ‘billions to trillions’ is to leverage investment from business, venture capital, sovereign …
The ‘Southernisation’ of development
A more polycentric global development landscape has emerged over the past decade or so, rupturing the formerly dominant North–South axis of power and knowledge. This can be traced through more diversified development norms, institutions, imaginaries and actors. This paper looks at one trend within this turbulent field: namely, the ways in which ‘Northern’ donors appear to be increasingly adopting some of the narratives and practices associated wi…
Political leadership and ‘non-traditional’ development cooperation
This article explores the relationships between (so-called) ‘non-traditional’ development cooperation (NTDC) and political leadership. Using the case studies of Brazil and South Korea, we propose that certain emblematic elements of NTDC discourse and practice can act to influence the relationship with political leaders in particular ways. These are (a) elevated language of affect, (b) interleaving of personal biographies with the developmental tr…
Brexit and UK International Development Policy
In this article we explore the implications of Brexit for the UK and the EU 's development policies and strategic directions, focusing on the former. While it is likely that the operational process of disentangling the UK from the various development institutions of the EU will be relatively straightforward, the choices that lie ahead about whether and how to cooperate thereafter are more complex. Aid and development policy touches on a wide rang…
National interests and the paradox of foreign aid under austerity: Conservative governments and the domestic politics of international development since 2010
Since 2010, successive Conservative‐led Coalition and Conservative governments in the UK have imposed domestic austerity while maintaining foreign aid commitments. They have done so in the teeth of considerable hostility from influential sections of the media, many Conservative MP s and party members, and large sections of the voting public. This paper explains this apparently paradoxical position by analysing these governments’ increasingly expl…
Enrolling the Private Sector in Community Development: Magic Bullet or Sleight of Hand
The role of the private sector in international development is growing, supported by new and evolving official programmes, financing, partnerships and narratives. This article examines the place of the private sector in 'community development' in the global South. It situates corporate community development (CCD) conceptually in long-standing debates within critical development studies to consider the distinct roles that corporations are playing …
South-South in retreat? The transitions from Lula to Rousseff to Temer and Brazilian development cooperation
Over the past decade or so, Brazil has become an increasingly active and visible global development partner, especially in Lusophone Africa and in Latin America, as part of a foreign policy strategy aimed at diversifying relations and expanding the country's presence in the global South. However, the period of high profile growth of South–South cooperation (SSC) under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003–2010) was followed by a period of con…
Questioning Liberal Normativity
This issue of Territory, Politics, Governance includes five papers that question issues of liberal normativity. Four of the five in particular might be thought of as provoking not just the ‘mainstr
Development geography II: Financialization
Financialization is now a key area of research within Geography. Development geographers have made significant (although arguably under-recognized) contributions, notably in relation to household and ‘everyday’ financialization, as well as recent work on the financialization of nature, land, infrastructure, health and energy in the Global South. In this progress report, I argue that donors are currently seeking to accelerate and deepen financiali…
DFID, the Private Sector and the Re-centring of an Economic Growth Agenda in International Development
This article examines the way in which the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) is returning an economic growth agenda to the centre of its mandate. The private sector is pitched as the primary engine of this strategy, with a growing place for corporations, consultancies and the financial sector in particular. The shift can be understood as a strategic response to an increasingly challenging domestic context, and to a turbulent ex…
Development geography II: Financialization
Financialization is now a key area of research within Geography. Development geographers have made significant (although arguably under-recognized) contributions, notably in relation to household and ‘everyday’ financialization, as well as recent work on the financialization of nature, land, infrastructure, health and energy in the Global South. In this progress report, I argue that donors are currently seeking to accelerate and deepen financiali…
A 'post-aid world'? Paradigm shift in foreign aid and development cooperation at the 2011 Busan High Level Forum
In this paper we suggest that 2011-2012 may mark a paradigm shift in dominant constructions of 'foreign aid' and a substantive shift of power within the architecture of global development governance. We evaluate critically the emergence and central principles of the 'aid effectiveness paradigm' over the last 10-15 years, and the various internal and external pressures that have mounted around it. We then discuss the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid…
Development geography 1: Cooperation, competition and convergence between ‘North’ and ‘South’
In this report I examine two of the most important trends bearing down on the international development regime in 2015, a landmark year. The first is the consolidation of South–South development cooperation (acknowledging the problematic nature of this designation), materially, ontologically and ideationally. The second is the response of the (so-called) ‘traditional’ donors to the opportunities and challenges provided by the ‘rise of the South’,…
India's Middle Classes and the Environment
The focus of most analyses of environmental struggles and discourses in colonial and postcolonial India is on rural and forest areas, and on subalterns versus elites. Recently, however, there has been increased interest in urban environmental issues, and, to some extent, in India's (variously defined)'middle classes'. This article reviews a range of literatures - environmental, social-cultural and political - in order to draw out themes and argum…
The changing geographies of foreign aid and development cooperation: Contributions from gift theory
This paper critically evaluates the ways in which Southern development actors, such as India and China, discursively construct the ‘aid’ element of South–South development cooperation. It draws upon gift theory, something that has previously been confined to analyses of Western foreign aid. Four characteristic features of the symbolic regime of South–South development cooperation are identified: the assertion of a shared ‘developing country’ iden…
State Capitalism and the New Global D/development Regime
Official discourses of Development are being redefined. If the key geopolitical contexts shaping the post‐war Development project were decolonisation and the Cold War, the defining world‐historical transformations shaping the emerging vision of Development are the expansion of state capitalism and the rise of China. The IMF, the World Bank, the OECD, the G20, other multilaterals, and bilateral partners are increasingly taking stock of the rise of…
Postcolonial environmental justice: Government and governance in India
From billions to trillions’: Financing the SDGs in a world ‘beyond aid’
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) require and are helping normalize a radical shift in development finance. The previous focus on raising donor contributions in the form of Official Development Assistance (ODA, or ‘foreign aid’) is being surpassed by the call for private finance to fund the SDGs. A growing role for ODA in this vision of moving from ‘billions to trillions’ is to leverage investment from business, venture capital, sovereign …
Creating Spaces of Resistance: Development NGOs and their Clients in Ghana, India and Mexico
Development NGOs have been accused by some of being new instruments of control, domesticated by the neoliberal project. For others, they elaborate and pursue alternative dreams. In this paper, we argue that, although the majority of NGOs have been co-opted to serve hegemonic development agendas, they nevertheless present a fluid, contradictory web of relations, within which a significant minority seeks to make spaces of resistance, and where even…
DFID, the Private Sector and the Re-centring of an Economic Growth Agenda in International Development
This article examines the way in which the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) is returning an economic growth agenda to the centre of its mandate. The private sector is pitched as the primary engine of this strategy, with a growing place for corporations, consultancies and the financial sector in particular. The shift can be understood as a strategic response to an increasingly challenging domestic context, and to a turbulent ex…
After Chipko: From environment to region in Uttaranchal
Although the Chipko movement is practically non-existent in its region of origin it remains one of the most frequently deployed examples of an environmental and/or a women's movement in the South. A small but growing number of commentators are now critiquing much neopopulist theorising on Chipko, and this article provides an overview of these critiques. It then takes the debate further with reference to a more recent regional movement in the hill…
Fu Manchu versus Dr Livingstone in the Dark Continent? Representing China, Africa and the West in British broadsheet newspapers
The ‘Southernisation’ of development
A more polycentric global development landscape has emerged over the past decade or so, rupturing the formerly dominant North–South axis of power and knowledge. This can be traced through more diversified development norms, institutions, imaginaries and actors. This paper looks at one trend within this turbulent field: namely, the ways in which ‘Northern’ donors appear to be increasingly adopting some of the narratives and practices associated wi…
Trust, accountability, and face-to-face interaction in North-South NGO relations
Janet Townsend is a Research Fellow in Geography at the University of Durham. Her interest in NGOs came from women pioneer settlers in Latin American rainforests, when Mexican respondents proved to see NGOs as the best prospective outside help. Emma Mawdsley lectures at Birkbeck College, University of London. In addition to her NGO research, she is working on the environmental beliefs and behaviours of India's middle classes. Gina Porter is worki…
Hindu nationalism, neo-traditionalism and environmental discourses in India
National interests and the paradox of foreign aid under austerity: Conservative governments and the domestic politics of international development since 2010
Since 2010, successive Conservative‐led Coalition and Conservative governments in the UK have imposed domestic austerity while maintaining foreign aid commitments. They have done so in the teeth of considerable hostility from influential sections of the media, many Conservative MP s and party members, and large sections of the voting public. This paper explains this apparently paradoxical position by analysing these governments’ increasingly expl…
Redrawing the Body Politic: Federalism, Regionalism and the Creation of New States in India
In 2000 the federal map of India was redrawn to create three new States, signifying a significant shift in the attitude of many of India's major political parties towards territorial reorganisation. This paper suggests that a new era in the political economy of Indiaassociated with economic liberalisation; the rise of the Hindu Right; the regionalisation of politics; and the emergence of a coalitional system of government in New Delhiprovides a n…
Rethinking d/Development
A dialectical relationship between ‘big D’ Development (broadly, the formal interventionist, international Development sector) and little ‘d’ development (the immanent structures and processes of capitalism) is a concept widely invoked in Geography and Development Studies. In this paper, we ask how the d/Development dialectic is evolving under current conjunctures of emergent state capitalism(s). We suggest that, going beyond ‘containment’, Devel…
Non-DAC donors and the changing landscape of foreign aid: The (in)significance of India's development cooperation with Kenya
The last few years have witnessed a growing interest in so-called “non-DAC donors” (NDDs), and China in particular. While this is understandable, there is some danger that the diversity of the NDDs is overlooked, and the debate becomes distorted by an overly China-oriented lens. The focus of this paper is India's development cooperation agendas and activities in Africa, and more specifically, Kenya. The paper argues that despite growing “noise” a…
The millennium challenge account: Neo-liberalism, poverty and security 1
March 2002 George W. Bush announced that the new Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) would increase US development assistance by $5 billion per annum. The MCA's goal of ‘reducing poverty through growth’ was highlighted in the November 2002 National Security Strategy, which elevated development to join defence and diplomacy as one of the three pillars of the ‘war on terror’. This paper critiques the crude and dogmatic alignments that the NSS and th…
Brexit and UK International Development Policy
In this article we explore the implications of Brexit for the UK and the EU 's development policies and strategic directions, focusing on the former. While it is likely that the operational process of disentangling the UK from the various development institutions of the EU will be relatively straightforward, the choices that lie ahead about whether and how to cooperate thereafter are more complex. Aid and development policy touches on a wide rang…
Nonsecessionist Regionalism in India: The Uttarakhand Separate State Movement
Studies of regionalism in India have tended to concentrate on the secessionist struggles in Kashmir and Punjab, and on centre-State relations within the federal union. An issue which has received far less attention has been that of nonsecessionist regionalism-the various demands for the creation of new smaller States within India. The persistent tendency of the centre has been to view these movements as threatening and divisive and, therefore, wi…
Muddy glee’: Rounding out the picture of women and physical geography fieldwork
Fieldwork in geography has come under close scrutiny from feminist and postcolonial scholars in recent years. In relation to physical geography, commentators have pointed to a range of practices and images (notably the ‘heroic’, masculinist ‘ideal’) that have acted to deter and exclude women, from undergraduates to senior academics. For some, fieldwork is one of the key sites of gender discrimination for women in physical geography. This paper st…
Trilateral Development Cooperation: Power and Politics in Emerging Aid Relationships
Changes are reverberating through the international development system. This article focuses on (re)emerging development actors in the South and their role in setting agendas, challenging current aid orthodoxies, and re-articulating development cooperation relationships between and within the North and South. Specifically, the article examines trilateral development cooperation, a significant new trend in foreign aid. The first aim is to examine …
Innovative Finance for Development? Vaccine Bonds and the Hidden Costs of Financialization
Innovative finance is now considered essential to mobilize the trillions projected as required to meet the sustainable development goals. The International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm), which issues vaccine bonds, is an emblematic example of innovative finance in global health and development. Since its launch in 2006, IFFIm has played a leading role in developing social bonds and funding global health, securing over $8 billion in do…
Nonsecessionist Regionalism in India: The Uttarakhand Separate State Movement
Studies of regionalism in India have tended to concentrate on the secessionist struggles in Kashmir and Punjab, and on centre-State relations within the federal union. An issue which has received far less attention has been that of nonsecessionist regionalism-the various demands for the creation of new smaller States within India. The persistent tendency of the centre has been to view these movements as threatening and divisive and, therefore, wi…
Teak and Arecanut: Colonial State, Forest and People in the Western Ghats (South India) 1800-1947
After Chipko: From environment to region in Uttaranchal
Although the Chipko movement is practically non-existent in its region of origin it remains one of the most frequently deployed examples of an environmental and/or a women's movement in the South. A small but growing number of commentators are now critiquing much neopopulist theorising on Chipko, and this article provides an overview of these critiques. It then takes the debate further with reference to a more recent regional movement in the hill…
A New Himalayan State in India: Popular Perceptions of Regionalism, Politics, and Development
In April 1998 the newly elected Government of India announced that it would oversee the creation of four new states within the federal Union of India. One of these regions currently forms the Himalayan part of Uttar Pradesh, and will be known as Uttaranchal. The reason given for this decision is that the formation of a smaller, separate state will encourage greater adminis- trative efficiency and political accountability in this 'backward' mounta…
The role of the transnational community of non‐government organizations: Governance or poverty reduction?
Non‐government organizations working in development form a transnational community which has a new role in imperialism today. We explored the knowledge economy of this community with NGDOs in Ghana, India, Mexico and Europe and found it to be largely donor‐controlled and generally top‐down, often against the will of committed individual actors. Governability is arguably a greater priority to donors than the most effective poverty reduction. The n…
Redrawing the Body Politic: Federalism, Regionalism and the Creation of New States in India
In 2000 the federal map of India was redrawn to create three new States, signifying a significant shift in the attitude of many of India's major political parties towards territorial reorganisation. This paper suggests that a new era in the political economy of Indiaassociated with economic liberalisation; the rise of the Hindu Right; the regionalisation of politics; and the emergence of a coalitional system of government in New Delhiprovides a n…
A survey of the World Development Reports I: Discursive strategies
This is the first of two surveys of the World Development Report series. Here we focus on the discursive strategies adopted by the Reports. We begin by setting the Reports within the wider milieu of development theory and practice. Behind the pragmatic, problem-solving image that the Reports aim to promote we identify a narrow and pre-framed position that eschews radical or alternative agendas. The Reports engage in numerous discursive ploys to u…
The World Development Report II: Continuity and change in development orthodoxies
In the second of two review papers on the World Bank’s series of World Development Reports (WDRs; 1978 to 2000/2001) we track some key themes and issues: North and South; state, market and civil society; and people, participation and values. Identifying clear trajectories in the series is made difficult by their characteristically mixed, and sometimes contradictory, messages. However, over time we identify a gradual weakening in the view that dev…
Muddy glee’: Rounding out the picture of women and physical geography fieldwork
Fieldwork in geography has come under close scrutiny from feminist and postcolonial scholars in recent years. In relation to physical geography, commentators have pointed to a range of practices and images (notably the ‘heroic’, masculinist ‘ideal’) that have acted to deter and exclude women, from undergraduates to senior academics. For some, fieldwork is one of the key sites of gender discrimination for women in physical geography. This paper st…
Creating Spaces of Resistance: Development NGOs and their Clients in Ghana, India and Mexico
Development NGOs have been accused by some of being new instruments of control, domesticated by the neoliberal project. For others, they elaborate and pursue alternative dreams. In this paper, we argue that, although the majority of NGOs have been co-opted to serve hegemonic development agendas, they nevertheless present a fluid, contradictory web of relations, within which a significant minority seeks to make spaces of resistance, and where even…
India's Middle Classes and the Environment
The focus of most analyses of environmental struggles and discourses in colonial and postcolonial India is on rural and forest areas, and on subalterns versus elites. Recently, however, there has been increased interest in urban environmental issues, and, to some extent, in India's (variously defined)'middle classes'. This article reviews a range of literatures - environmental, social-cultural and political - in order to draw out themes and argum…
The Abuse of Religion and Ecology: The Visha Hindu Parishad and Tehri Dam
A number of commentators have suggested various cautions and caveats about assuming a positive relationship between Hinduism and the environment. The main points of contention are the limitations of textual exegesis; the environmentally damaging consequences of some Hindu beliefs and practices; and questions over whether any religion provides an adequate or appropriate basis from which to address contemporary environmental challenges. This paper …
Hindu nationalism, neo-traditionalism and environmental discourses in India
Trust, accountability, and face-to-face interaction in North-South NGO relations
Janet Townsend is a Research Fellow in Geography at the University of Durham. Her interest in NGOs came from women pioneer settlers in Latin American rainforests, when Mexican respondents proved to see NGOs as the best prospective outside help. Emma Mawdsley lectures at Birkbeck College, University of London. In addition to her NGO research, she is working on the environmental beliefs and behaviours of India's middle classes. Gina Porter is worki…
Postcolonial environmental justice: Government and governance in India
The war on terror, American hegemony and international development
While the enhanced aid resulting from security concerns and the manner of its delivery does suggest certain shifts in the way hegemonic powers deal with the majority world, there are also powerful continuities in the legitimating discourses, goals and interests served by this re-articulated relationship between development and security. In this short introduction to the four papers we set out some brief thoughts on the historical lineage of curre…
The millennium challenge account: Neo-liberalism, poverty and security 1
March 2002 George W. Bush announced that the new Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) would increase US development assistance by $5 billion per annum. The MCA's goal of ‘reducing poverty through growth’ was highlighted in the November 2002 National Security Strategy, which elevated development to join defence and diplomacy as one of the three pillars of the ‘war on terror’. This paper critiques the crude and dogmatic alignments that the NSS and th…
China and Africa: Emerging Challenges to the Geographies of Power
Over the last few years, China has assiduously pursued stronger economic and diplomatic relations with many Asian, African and Latin American countries. In part, this is fuelled by its extraordinary economic growth, which has led to a boom in domestic resource demand, and the search for profitable markets and investment outlets. China is also seeking diplomatic support in challenging the inequalities of 'global' governance. For better and worse, …
Fu Manchu versus Dr Livingstone in the Dark Continent? Representing China, Africa and the West in British broadsheet newspapers
Forest Futures: Global Representations and Ground Realities in the Himalayas
Survival: Survival of the human race ‐ Edited by Emily Shuckburgh
Sylvia Chant and Cathy McIlwaine, Geographies of Development in the 21st Century: An Introduction to the Global South
The Elephant in the Corner? Reviewing India‐Africa Relations in the New Millennium
As countries of the ‘global South’ seek to challenge existing uneven architectures of economic, political and institutional power, now under different circumstances to those prevailing during the Cold War, relations between African countries and various ‘Rising Powers’ have drawn a great deal of academic and public attention. This scrutiny has been heavily tilted towards analysis of China’s African activities. This paper aims to partially redress…
Non-DAC donors and the changing landscape of foreign aid: The (in)significance of India's development cooperation with Kenya
The last few years have witnessed a growing interest in so-called “non-DAC donors” (NDDs), and China in particular. While this is understandable, there is some danger that the diversity of the NDDs is overlooked, and the debate becomes distorted by an overly China-oriented lens. The focus of this paper is India's development cooperation agendas and activities in Africa, and more specifically, Kenya. The paper argues that despite growing “noise” a…
The changing geographies of foreign aid and development cooperation: Contributions from gift theory
This paper critically evaluates the ways in which Southern development actors, such as India and China, discursively construct the ‘aid’ element of South–South development cooperation. It draws upon gift theory, something that has previously been confined to analyses of Western foreign aid. Four characteristic features of the symbolic regime of South–South development cooperation are identified: the assertion of a shared ‘developing country’ iden…
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