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Post-doc: Religion & Society
The Global Religion Research Initiative (GRRI) of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society (CSRS) at the University of Notre Dame (IN, USA) invites applications for one or two (1-2), two-year sociological postdoctoral residential research fellowships in the study of global religion, starting academic year 2017-2018 (2-3 additional fellowships will be advertised and […]
Post-doc: Community-based Research
The Trent Community Research Centre (TCRC) is seeking applications for a 12-month postdoctoral fellow in the practices and techniques of community-based research (CBR). This full-time fellowship contributes to the Community First: Impact of Community Engagement (CFICE) research project and would aim to improve, refine and further develop best practices for the coordination of research projects […]
Tags: #Community-based research #Engagement #Participatory research
Colonial Impact & Legacy
Acemoglu and Robinson, in their widely read Why Nations Fail (2014), have an excellent example of the immediate and long-term legacy impacts of colonialism, which is worth quoting at length (p. 249-250): The extractive institutions created by the Dutch in the Spice Islands had the desired effects, though, in Banda this was at the […]
Tags: #Colonial legacy #Colonialism #Extractive Institutions #Institutions #Why Nations Fail
Essential Development Studies Books
1950s: Discourse on Colonialism (1950) Cesaire The Colonizer and the Colonized (1957) Memmi 1960s: The Wretched of the Earth (1961) Fanon False Start in Africa (1962) Dumont Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare (1968) Nkrumah 1970s: Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970) Sen Class Struggle in Africa (1970) Nkrumah Rules for Radicals (1971) Alinsky A […]
Tags: #Books #Development Studies #Essential reads #International development #international development studies
Post-doc: Governance, Transportation & Change
We require two Postdoctoral Research Fellows for the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant led by Professor Paul Nugent entitled African Governance and Space: Transport Corridors, Border Towns and Port Cities in Transition (AFRIGOS). You will investigate the process of ‘respacing’ Africa, a political drive towards regional and continental integration, on the one hand, and […]
Tags: #Africa #Governance #Infrastructure #Politics #Transportation
Why Nations Fail
Why Nations Fail (2012), by Acemoglu and Robinson, is probably one of the most influential development studies books of the last decade. Although the idea itself is not new, the authors make a details and persuasive argument that institutions are a primary reason for national wealth and poverty. They write: “The central thesis of this […]
Tags: #Economic growth #Institutions #Politics #Power #Why Nations Fail
About me
Logan Cochrane
Logan is a 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 twenty 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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