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PhD Studentships: Anthropology (Oslo)
Faculty of Social Sciences Department of Social Anthropology Job Description The Department of Social Anthropology invites candidates to apply for 2 Ph.D. Research Fellowships, with starting date in January 2017. The Department wishes to recruit two Ph.D. candidates with excellent research qualifications within Social Anthropology. Applicants should relate to one or more of the Department’s core […]
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Post-doc: Mobility & Political Authority
Under the auspices of the South African Research Chair for Mobility & the Politics of Difference, the African Centre for Migration & Society at Wits University seeks applications for a 1-2 year post-doctoral fellowship. This position is a response to unprecedented levels of urbanisation and mobility across the African continent. Driven by conflict, ambition, and […]
Tags: #Authority #Migration #Mobility #Politics #Urbanization
Co-opting Aid for Political Purposes
Guest blog on WhyDev: Donors face difficult challenges. Sometimes they face choices between conflicting priorities. For example: (1) governments should have the right to determine how and where resources are used, and (2) individual human rights should be upheld and protected. These principles often conflict, particularly in countries where democratic governance is weak. Rosalind Eyben […]
Tags: #International development #Politics #Power #Practice #Process
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
PhD: The Politics of Big Data
The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) of the Faculty of Humanities is looking for a PhD candidate to join the ERC-funded project ‘Data Activism: The Politics of Big Data According to Civil Society'(DATACTIVE), with Dr. Stefania Milan as Principal Investigator. DATACTIVE investigates citizens’ engagement with massive data collection, seeking to understand how activism evolves […]
Tags: #Activism #Big data #Civil society #Politics #Social change
Ethiopia’s Safety Net: Power, Politics and Practice
Cochrane, L. and Tamiru, Y. (2016) Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program: Power, Politics and Practice. Journal of International Development 28(5): 649-665. Abstract With one third of the population living in poverty and millions experiencing chronic food insecurity, the government of Ethiopia faces difcult and complex challenges. One of the most robust and effective social protection […]
Tags: #Ethiopia #Participation #Politics #Power #Productive Safety Net Program
Yemen and the Politics of Permanent Crisis
Before the onset of the 2015 Yemeni war, the situation in the country was dire: it was home to one of the world’s highest rates of child malnutrition, was chronically food insecure, depleting oil and water resources, corruption and long-term instability. Sarah Phillips explores these dynamics in her work “Yemen and the Politics of Permanent […]
Tags: #Instability #Politics #Politics of Permanent Crisis #Power #Yemen
Power & Politics in the Horn of Africa
Alex de Waal is one the world’s most well versed scholars on East African politics, and has been intimately engaged with the region for decades. His 2015 book, “The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power,” is essential reading for those interested in the region, or the intersection of […]
Tags: #Alex De Waal #Political Marketplace #Politics #Power #Somaliland
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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