Projects per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
The State, Governance and Conflict research cluster at the School of International Development (DEV) investigates the characteristics, origins and effects of different types of power relations in the global South.
Using evidence-based approaches, our research asks how both domestic and international factors shape political regimes, forms of governance and developmental outcomes.
Defining politics as a field of practices and relations involving a wide range of competing actors and institutions, our work analyses the “politics of development” in several key domains:
Civil Wars and Political Violence – analysis of media representations of violent conflicts, water supply and treatment during and immediately following armed conflict, and the relevance of institutional design for the prospects of ethnopolitical (in)stability (Scott, Stavinoha, Theuerkauf and Zeitoun).
Media and Development – how media representations may influence political development goals by reproducing or challenging dominant discourses about development and inequality (Scott and Stavinoha).
Political Economy – analysis of how both everyday social relations and broader political processes reflect and shape distributions of power and resources (Pattenden and Chhotray).
Social and Political Institutions – how (and to what degree) different social groups access or are denied political representation through formal as well as informal institutions and policy-making processes (Chhotray, Pattenden, Stavinoha and Theuerkauf).
Social Policy – analysis of the uneven outcomes of social policy and processes of governance in the global South (Pattenden and Chhotray).
State-Society Relations – analysis of the power relations at play amongst the populations of villages, towns and cities in the global South, and of their interactions with state and civil society actors (Chhotray, Pattenden, Scott and Stavinoha).
Network
Profiles
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Vasudha Chhotray
- School of International Development - Professor of Politics and Development
- Water Security Research Centre - Member
- Global Environmental Justice - Member
- The State, Governance and Conflict - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Research Centre Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
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Ben Jones
- School of International Development - Associate Professor in Development Studies
- Heritage and History - Member
- Gender and Development - Member
- The State, Governance and Conflict - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
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Jonathan Pattenden
- School of International Development - Associate Professor in the Political Economy and Sociology of Development
- Life Course, Migration and Wellbeing - Member
- The State, Governance and Conflict - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
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Old parks, new futures: documenting the uses of open space in an African city
1/03/21 → 28/02/23
Project: Research
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Challenging categories: educated unemployed youth as institutional innovators in rural Uganda
20/03/20 → 19/06/23
Project: Research
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Educating Institutions: A study of the influence of educated young women and men on local politics in Uganda
1/10/18 → 30/09/19
Project: Research
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A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: the lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India
Chhotray, V., May 2022, In: World Development. 153, 105823.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile -
Book review: Max Liboiron. 2021. Pollution is Colonialism
Chhotray, V., 3 Mar 2022, In: Contributions to Indian Sociology. 55, 3, p. 465-468Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Open AccessFile4 Downloads (Pure) -
Exploitation and Labour Regimes: Production, Circulation, Social Reproduction, Ecology
Baglioni, E., Campling, L., Mezzadri, A., Miyamura, S., Pattenden, J. & Selwyn, B., 27 Jan 2022, Labour Regimes and Global Production . Baglioni, E., Campling, L., Coe, N. M. & Smith, A. (eds.). Newcastle, UK: Agenda PublishingResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Prizes
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British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
Jones, Ben (Recipient), 21 Mar 2018
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Community and Public Engagement (Cue East)
Scott, Martin (Recipient), 2011
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Excellence in Teaching (UEA)
Scott, Martin (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Research seminar: Aid and the media
Martin Scott (Speaker)
28 Apr 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Invited talk
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Research Seminar: Media and humanitarian aid
Martin Scott (Speaker)
30 Mar 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Invited talk
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Global Conference on Media Freedom 2022 (Estonia)
Martin Scott (Speaker)
9 Feb 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
Press / Media
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Not every war gets the same coverage as Russia's invasion — and that has consequences (NPR)
4/03/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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The problem is not ‘negative’ Western media coverage of Africa (Al Jazeera English)
9/07/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Red Nose Day 2019: How Does It Work, And Why Is It Being Criticized? (NPR)
22/05/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media