OVERALL RESEARCH INTERESTS

bullet Gender, Childhood, Race and Development

bullet Culture, Religion and Wellbeing

bullet Participation, Rights and the Politics of Development Intervention

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

2008 'But what is Wellbeing? A framework for analysis in social and policy and practice' paper presented at the conference 'Regeneration and Wellbeing: Research into Practice', University of Bradford, 24-25 April 2008

2007 ‘Children’s Rights and the Imagination of Community in Bangladesh.’ Childhood. 14 (4): 505-520. November.

2007 (with Shyamol Choudhury) ‘The Politics of Child Participation in International Development: The Dilemma of Agency.’ European Journal of Development Research. 19 (4) 529-550.

2007 (with Mark Ellison) 'Wellbeing, livelihoods and resources in social practice.' Pp 157-175  in I R Gough and J.A.McGregor (ed). Wellbeing in Developing Countries: From theory to research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (13 978-0-521-85751-2; 10 0-521-85751-1)

2007 (with Jethro Pettit) 'Participatory Approaches and the Measurement of human well-being.' cPp 240-267 in Human Well-being: Concept and Measurement, ed Mark McGillivray, published by Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. ISBN 0-230-00498-9.
Re-published pp 27-60 in Participatory Development. An Introduction. Ed Azmal Hussain and Santap Sanhari Mishra. Hyderabad, India: Icfai Books, The Icfai University Press.

2006 ‘The Cultural Construction of Wellbeing: Seeking Healing in Bangladesh.’ WeD Working Paper 15. Bath.

2006 'The 'Gender Lens': a Racial Blinder?' Progress in Development Studies. 6 (1):68-79.

2004 (with Jethro Pettit) 'Participatory methods and the measurement of well-being'. Jethro Pettit Helsinki: WIDER Working paper. WeD Working Paper 08.

2002 'Being, Becoming and Relationship. Conceptual Challenges of a Child Rights Approach in Development.' Journal of International Development: Special Issue on Aging and Childhood Poverty

2002 'From the Politics of Poverty to the Politics of Identity? Child Rights and Working Children in Bangladesh. Journal of International Development. 14 (6): 725-725

2002 'Thinking Race, Thinking Development.' Third World Quarterly 23 (3): 407-419.

2002 Child Brigade. An Organisation of Street Working Children in Bangladesh. Dhaka: Save the Children Sweden.

2001 'Child Rights and the Politics of Culture in Bangladesh Development.' Conference paper Human Frailty: Rights, Ethics and the Search for Global Justice. Bristol.

2000 Did the earth move?": The Hazards of Bringing Men and Masculinities into Gender and Development. IDS Bulletin Vol 31 No 2.

2000 Journal Issue - co-edited with Andrea Cornwall - IDS Bulletin Vol 31 No 2: Men and Masculinities in Gender and Development.

1999 'NGOs, civil society and the state in Bangladesh: the politics of representing the poor.' Development and Change 30:307-326.

1999 'Gender and Development: working with difference' in Vivienne Jabri and Eleanor O'Gorman (eds) Women, Culture and International Relations Lynne Rienner, 1999.

TEACHING

bullet EC10152 Introduction to Social Analysis of Development See Moodle
bullet EC40165 Critical Issues in Social Development See Moodle

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