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PhD and Postdocs (6): Racialized Lives of Migrants
The Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa) invites applications for up to six Post-Doctoral Research positions in the project The Colour of Labour: The Racialized Lives of Migrants (ERC Advanced Grant # 695573 – COLOUR), led by Cristiana Bastos. The multi-track, multi-disciplinary project COLOUR […]
Tags: #Colonialism #Labour #Migrants #Migration #Racialized Lives
PhD (x3) and Postdoc: Participatory urban governance
‘Participatory urban governance between democracy and clientelism: Brokers and (in)formal politics’ is a five-year research project financed by the European Research Council (2016-2021), led by Dr Martijn Koster. This research project investigates ethnographically how brokers position themselves in participatory urban governance. It examines their practices, discourses and networks, both in and outside officially sanctioned channels […]
Tags: #Brokers #Democracy #Ethnography #Governance #Participation
Two Faces of Civil Society
A number of authors promote civil society as a mechanism to improve aid: Dwyer (2015) argued it as an alternative to traditional, top-down aid, Roy, Negron-Gonzales, Opoku-Agyemang and Talwalker (2016) as poor people’s movements, Eyben (2014) of the people-centered alternative vision of civil society, and Acemoglu and Robinson (2006) about the necessity of collective action for democratic […]
Tags: #Civil society #Effective aid #International development #NGOs #Politics
New Publication: Land Grabbing & Human Rights
Cochrane, L. (2016) Land Grabbing. In Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics, 2nd Edition, edited by P. Thompson and D. Kaplan. Introduction: The application of force to coerce individuals to illegally give up their land or the otherwise illegal dispossession of land, a process known as “land grabbing,” is a violation of human rights – […]
PhD Studentships (11): Multilingualism in Education
A group of researchers of the Research Unit “Education, Culture, Cognition and Society” (ECCS) and of the Luxembourg Centre for Educational Testing (LUCET) at the University of Luxembourg has obtained a large grant for the interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Unit CALIDIE (Capitalising on Linguistic Diversity in Education). The doctoral programme CALIDIE is funded in the frame […]
Tags: #Education #Ethnography #Linguistics #Multilingualism #Psychology
Encountering Development
One of the books commonly cited and recommended in critical development studies circles is Arturo Escobar’s Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (1995). Escobar is a Colombian-American Anthropologist, who interestingly started his academic career in chemical engineering. The award-winning book is typically summarized as reframing ‘development’ as a tool of control […]
Tags: #Accountability #Critical Studies #Development discourse #Encountering Development #International development
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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