Bench Marking UK Development Geography
Nina Laurie 29/03/12
INTRODUCTION
Development geography is recognised internationally for cutting edge debate and analysis
on international development and global inequality. It elaborates theory from careful field
engagement – most generally of a form that is sustained over time. It engages with policy at
the highest levels and excels at collaborating across disciplinary boundaries. It leads
Geography in bridging North-South divides and international distances in knowledge
production.
As a Geography sub-discipline, it is currently punching above its weight given the limited
number of units where development geographers are located 1. It is an intellectual home for
diverse and fruitful cross-discipline collaboration 2. It makes a clear and distinct contribution
to Development Studies 3 where it has introduced concepts of scale, political ecology/socio
natures and postcoloniality. With vibrant cross-cutting research, development geography has
attracted key funding from the ESRC in Human Geography (Appendix C) including with
Development and Area Studies (Appendix D) and Anthropology, Environmental Planning
and Sociology (Appendix E) as contributing disciplines. This diverse funding highlights the
interdisciplinary nature of development geography research within the social sciences. It has
also attracted inter-disciplinary funding from the sciences (NERC, EPSRC in the UK and
overseas from NSF, SSHRC and the EU), the arts and humanities (AHRC) and various
Department for International Development (DfID) large schemes 4, including ESRC-DFID
(Appendix F).
RESEARCH THEMES AND DIRECTIONS
UK development geography has led research agendas on globalisation, moving Geography
and wider social science debates away from thinking about the Global South/North as
separate. Current work is shaping development debates on the ‘big issues’– climate change
(e.g. Pelling et al 2001 5), poverty (e.g. Bryceson et al 2009; Rigg et al 2009), increased
mobility (Mercer et al 2008; McIlwaine, 2011; Potts 2010) and the changing world order (e.g.
Tan-Mullins and Rigg et al 2007; Tan-Mullins and Mohan 2010; Mawdsley and McCann,
2011).
1
The top 20 geography departments in Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) (2008) had 55
members of staff identified as development geographers. Only 25% of these top departments in the
UK have more than 5 development geographers – Royal Holloway (RHUL), London School of
Economics (LSE), King's College London (KCL), Cambridge and University College London (UCL).
2
This encompasses geographers across all Geography sub-disciplines including those in physical
geography (see Appendix A on the Developing Areas Research Group [DARG] membership crossover with other study groups). It also includes academics from Anthropology, Development Studies,
Planning and Sociology, publishing in Geography, some, of whom were originally geographers and
now contribute to other disciplines, including academics (e.g. Bebbington, Sidaway, Gough) who have
recently left or returned to the UK.
3
As illustrated by articles by geographers ranking in the top 50 downloaded papers in the leading
development journals (Appendix B).
4
E.g. Baskahr Vira Natural Resources Systems Program (NRSP: R7973) Policy Implications of
Common Property Resource Knowledge in India, Zimbabwe and Tanzania.
5
49 citations on web of science.
In this context existing strengths in development geography have been deepened and new
research directions have emerged over the last decade.
RESEARCH THEMES AND DIRECTIONS
Political ecology: Bill Adams' Green Development (2008) is in its third edition. Cambridge 6
and King's 7 remain important political ecology nodes along with geographers based in
Development Studies (Blaikie UEA 8; Bebbington and Brockington IDPM). Research brings
together (sustainable) livelihoods and political ecology (e.g. Rigg 2003, Rigg 2006), including
with a focus on climate change adaptation. Leading projects attract interdisciplinary science
funding (e.g. Vira and Adams 9 and Mistry EU 10).
Urban development: LSE 11 and UCL 12 remain important centres for urban research also
attracting funding from the AHRC 13 . Urban research sets new agendas interfacing with
political geography (McFarlane 2004,2006a,b and Bulkeley 2010a,b), Urban studies
(Robinson, 2006) and climate change (UNHABITAT, 2010 [Simon]; Pelling 2007).
Transnationalism, mobility and connections: Examines the development implications of
boundaries becoming more fluid with globalisation, mobility and recent changes in the
economic world order. A key focus is the emergence of new development actors and
subjectivities: BRIC economies as donors and investors (Mawdsley and McCann 2011; TanMullins et al 2010); Children and youth (Ansell and Robson et al 2009; Jones 2011; Gough
2008); celebrities (Brockington 2009, Goodman 2010), circular migrants (Potts 2010),
diasporas (Mercer et al 2008; McIlwaine, 2011, Mohan 2002), indigenous people (Andolina
et al 2009) social justice movements (Cumbers et al 2008), volunteers (Baillie Smith and
Laurie 2011). The role of ICTs for development (ICT4D) has also been a hallmark of this
work centred in RHUL (e.g. Kleine and Unwin, 2009) 14.
Feminist geography: feminist engagement is cross-cutting making important contributions to
theory and practice on gendered violence (Chant, 2008; McIlwaine, 1999; Moser and
McIlwaine, 2006), and trafficking (Richardson et al 2009) 15. It interrogates neoliberalism
(Jenkins, 2008; Laurie and Bondi, 2006 Townsend et al 2004 and 2002, Mawdesley et al
2002), masculinities (Brickell and Chant, 2010; Willis, 2005; and Laurie 2005, 2011) and
gender intersections with, generation (Varley 2007) and race in development (Andolina et al
2009, Noxolo 2004). It makes important contributions to development debates on
6
Adams, Bayliss Smith, Mawdsley, Watson and Vira supervising 25-30 postgraduates
Allan, Bryant, Goodman, Lorrimer, Pelling and Redclift.
8
Bebbington and Blaikie were the first two Annual Keynotes of the Cultural and Political Ecology
Specialty Group at the AAGs (2010 and 2011).
9
Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation project (ESPA: NE/I003924/1): Incentives for natural
resource use and management: ecosystem services, poverty and tradeoffs. Funded by NERC and
managed by the ESRC.
10
www.projectcobra.org (Community Owned Best Practice for Sustainable Resource Adaptive
Management in the Guiana Shield, South America).
11
Chant, Jones, Mercer, Chari, Low, Ghertner.
12
Arabindoo, Gandy, Lemanski, Page, Robinson, Varley.
13
Gandy: Arts and Humanities Research Council (2006) Liquid city: water, landscape and social
formation in twenty-first century Mumbai.
14
This work has attracting significant DFID-ESRC e.g. Affordable and appropriate mobile phone
access for rural Africa – a demand-led and participatory approach (£478,983).
15
ESRC RES -062-23-1490 entered in Sociology with Geography as the contributing discipline
7
empowerment through collaborations with Global South partners (e.g. Sharp et al 2003 16
and Zapata et al 2002, a Spanish transaltion of the earlier Townsend et al 1999).
Postcolonialism geography: Development geography has led in theorising postcolonial
development at its interfaces with culture (McEwan 2001; Radcliffe, 2005) economy (Pollard
et al 2009; Pollard et al, 2011; Vira and James 2011, 2012; Noxolo 2006, Noxolo et al 2009;
Raghuram et al 2009) and (geo)politics (Sharp and Briggs 2006, Noxolo 2009a), examining
identity making and the performative construction of (diverse) economies politics and
knowledges (Kothari 2005; Briggs and Sharp 2004 17, Larner and Laurie 2011, Noxolo 2006,
2009b, Sidaway 2007, 2012, Power et al 2006) including ethical, alternative and fair trade
(Kleine 18; Goodman 2004; Hughes and McEwan 19) and linking into reformulations of urban
space (Robinson 2006, Varley 2012). In this way development geography has forged new
agendas and innovative collaborations with urban, economic and political geographers.
Threats and weaknesses
Visibility: While development geography has been extremely successful at developing
cutting edge research and interdisciplinary work there is a danger that the contribution of
development geography is partially obscured. Fluid boundaries mean that development
geographers are often located outside Geography. If not entered into the Geography
Research Excellence Framework (REF), the visibility of development scholarship is
weakened 20. Perception issues in Geography mean that work by political, economic or
urban geographers (e.g. Robinson 2006: citations 274) on development issues and/or in
the Global South usually receives greater recognition 21. This is a threat not only to
development geography but also to the discipline as a whole because the policy and
political visibility of development research reflects well on the public standing of
Geography more generally.
Funding: Area Studies, fieldwork, North-South collaboration and translation issues:
Shifts in research funding are negatively affecting development geography in a number of
ways. First, long term fieldwork and strengths in ethnographic research (see Bebbington
2010) are threatened by full economic costing models. Second, engagement with Southern
partners and translation and (co)publishing in the Global South are undermined by the
reduction in higher education links programmes (e.g. DfID/ British Council schemes like
DelPhe ) 22.Third the decentralisation of postgraduate funding to Doctoral Training Centres
16
Reprinted in the first virtual issue of Transactions of teh Institute of British Geographers.
rd
This article was the 3 most cited article in the journal, data from publisher’s website, January 2012
18
DFID-ESRC RES-167-25-0714.
19
Hughes and McEwan currently have a large Leverhulme project on fair trade in South Africa.
20
However the definition of development geography in the REF does not also necessarily help make
visible the strong contribution of development geography. Much development geography research fits
with the subject descriptor for the Anthropology and Development Studies sub panel with its focus on
“issue-driven research concerning the analysis of global to local processes of cultural, demographic,
economic, environmental, political, technological and social change in developing and emerging parts
of the world." By contrast the descriptor for Geography uses the term "development geography"
amongst a list of other ‘geographies’ but does not detail what this refers to.
21
It is important to note that the label ‘Development geography’ comes with intellectual and political
baggage, linked in part to Geography’s own history as a discipline that emerged from British colonial
interests in ‘distant’ places and people. This complex story has shaped how development geography
is seen by different audiences and in part explains its often ambivalent position as a sub-discipline in
wider intellectual, institutional and policy landscapes.
22
The Development Partnerships for Higher Education (DelPHE) DfID funding comes to an end in
2013. This scheme replaced the British Council DFID higher education links and both have provided
crucial opportunities to build long term collaborations with research partners in the Global South
17
(DTCs) means that DTCs are able to admit students without providing fieldwork funding 23.
All these processes downgrade fieldwork and threaten North-South knowledge production.
While individual scholars often engage with Area Studies organisations 24 there are few
institutional relationships between these and RGS-IBG 25. Therefore understanding of the
strengths of Geography approaches in development research, which often have a more
global and/or comparative approach than Area Studies (see above), is not widespread. This
is a disadvantage in funding peer review processes. Greater representation by development
geographers covering ‘Area and Development Studies’ in the peer review college and the
ESRC board would help address this situation 26.There is also potential to make stronger
links between the RGS-IBG, and related learned societies engaged with development 27.
Outputs
As development geography is so diverse, it is difficult to identify outputs that have been
influential across the board. Due to REF pressure and the reluctance of mainstream
academic presses to publish monographs on Global South regions, cutting edge
development geography mostly appears in journal articles, including those in Development
Studies where development geographers have a significant impact (see Appendix B). Here
the work of Blaikie 2006 (81 citations web of science), Rigg 2006 (80 citations web of
science) and Bebbington 1999 28 (220 citations web of science) appear in the list of top 25
downloads in World Development 29 over the last decade. The work of development
producing co-published work on other languages (e.g. Laurie et al 2006, 2008; Zapata et al 2002).
Cutbacks in links programs and the emphasis in the Geography REF on publications in English
affects the impact that research can have in the countries where it is most relevant. If development
geography is be part of public debate on "development" then translation and publication in the Global
South is critical.
23
Increasing interdisciplinarity means development geography at the cultural interface does not have
parity in terms of fieldwork funding as AHRC allocation through block grants for fieldwork is
substantially less than that potentially allocated to ESRC students. This prejudices those doing
international fieldwork. Decentralised ESRC strategy for DTCs means that the budgets for fieldwork
are not now centrally allocated by ESRC. It is the responsibility of individual DTCs to decide how to
allocate funds. Some (e.g. NE DTC) have adopted the policy of using the pre-existing ESRC system
and rates whereby if the proposal is approved fieldwork funding is made available, whereas others
(e.g. Cambridge DTC) do not guarantee fieldwork funding if an award is made.
24
e.g. Society of Latin American Studies; Africa Studies Association UK; British Association for South
Asian Studies, Association of South East Asian Studies in the UK (ASEASUK) (currently chaired by a
geographer).
25
Including at study group level.
26
Professor Jonathan Rigg was on the board for the first ESRC-DFID call as one of the few
development geographers to serving at a high level in the ESRC.
27
There is potential for the UK Collaborative on the Development Sciences http://www.ukcds.org.uk/
to play a coordinating role in this, also bringing in British Academy stakeholders. The British Academy
plays an important role in supporting Area Studies especially through small grants and the new
International Partnership and Mobility Scheme which will play an increasingly important role after
2013 when the Development Partnerships for Higher Education (DelPHE) DfID funding comes to an
end.
28
In total in this period 3 of Bebbington’s articles also had between 50-60 citations in leading
Geography journals in this period. Bebbington’s 1999 paper was on social capital. Mohan 2002 also
writing on social capital in Progress in Human Geography has 70 citations indicating how citation
levels rise if papers are perceived to cross over with economic geography themes.
29
Personal e-mail communication Professor Jonathan Rigg 6/3/12 “I had a conversation with Oliver
Coombs (the editor) at the RGS in Manchester in which he made the point that geographers’ work is
amongst the most cited in World Development."
geographers has also been profiled in special issues (e.g. Geoforum Piers Blaikie on political
ecology 30).
Exceptions to the trend towards journal publication are agendas setting monographs
with Routledge and Zed Press, which has a global reach and reputation for leading
development lists 31. Adams (2002, 2008: citations 1035 32) sets an important intellectual
agenda on political ecology. Participation the New Tyranny (Cooke and Kothari 2001:
Citations 1725) ) and the follow on book with Mendely (Mohan 2004 citations 104) has
shifted how participation is framed and taught in contemporary development theory and
practice globally. Corbridge et al (2005: citations 205) and Rigg (2003: citations 282)
continue to set agendas, making an important contribution to scholarship in Asia, while
Power 2003 (citations 105) is shaping how development geographies are understood more
widely. Recent monographs are shifting academic agendas to address new issues e.g.:
Postcolonial economies (Pollard et al 2011: Zed); new donors (Mawdsley 2012: Zed);
indigeneity (Andolina et al 2009: Duke) and youth (Jones and Rodgers 2009: Palgrave).
Impact
The non-academic impact of development geography research has been extensive,
changing policy making, development practice and debate at all levels. The impact of
landmark books on Political Ecology (Adams 2002, 2008) and Participatory Development
(Cooke and Kothari 2001) has been highlighted above. Both books have fundamentally
changed the way in which development issues are imagined and tackled. This work, like that
of development geography more widely, impacts on non-academic development
stakeholders at all scales. The examples below illustrate the breadth of development
geography’s profound impact on development user communities and policy and practice.
Impact is enhanced by development geography’s excellence in collaborative and
interdisciplinary research with policy users, governments, NGOs and some of the poorest
and most excluded communities.
International impact
Development geography is characterised by contributions to international interdisciplinary
development science 33. For a long time it has engaged with United Nations agencies to
effect change. Illustrating strengths in political ecology, urban research and gender and
development, recent high-level impacts include service on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) (Pelling) and authorship as commissioning editors for UN
HABITAT: State of African Cities 2010 (UNHABITAT 2010 [Simon]); State of Women in
Cities: Gender and the Prosperity of Cities 2012-13 (UNHABITAT 2012 [Chant]). Moser and
McIlwaine’s (2006) work on gender and violence has shaped World Bank thinking and been
widely used by policy makers to highlight a typology of economic, social and political
violence perpetrated at different scales - individual, community, city etc.. Collaborative
30
"In honour of the Life Work of Piers Blaikie" Special Issue in Geoforum 39:2, March 2008. with nine
articles including "Epilogue: Towards a future for political ecology that works" (pps. 765-772) by Piers
Blaikie.
31
The combination of paperback publishing and Global South distribution appeals to development
geographers for its wide global and policy as well as academic impact. The Companion to
Development Studies (Desai and Potter [eds] 2002 96 citations) has also been published in India by
Sage and translated for a Chinese market. The DARG book series has also been important in the sub
discipline.
32
All book citations are from Google scholar.
33
E.g. Simon inaugural Scientific Steering Committee member for the International Council for
Science’s Human Dimensions of Global environmental Change IHDP.
research also involves formal partnerships with UN agencies 34. Varley et al (2007) was
translated and published in Mexcio in 2010 by UNIFEM and Bradshaw (2004) on gender and
natural disasters was published by the UN in Chile. Bebbington's work on civil society has
also been very influential in policy circles, especially in terms of highlighting the relationships
between different types of civil society organisations and the state. A joint publication with
World Bank colleagues on this work (Bebbington and Dharmawan et al. 2006) is one of the
top downloaded articles over the last decade in World Development.
Impact on UK and other governments
UK policy on international development is widely shaped by development geography.
Engagement with government offices, and parliament committees, reporting occurs for
example through The Foresight Project (Pelling on climate change and Disaster
anticipation 35), The Commons Foreign Affairs Committee 36 and All Party Committees 37,
including through Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (EPSA) joint events with the
International Development and the Environment committee whilst also targeting policy
makers in the Global South e.g. (Vira and Adams et al 2012 38).
Impacts on DfID’s thinking and policies occur through debate, fostered through academic
publishing (e.g. Stuart Corbridge et al's work on India 2005, engagement with the Crisis
States group at DfID has influenced UK government thinking on state formation). Mohan and
Power’s ESRC Rising Powers project 39 worked closely with DfID and the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office to debate the role of China in Africa and aid, trade and investment
practices 40. Dialogue on contemporary development challenges is achieved through
development geographers’ ESRC-DFID funded projects (see Appendix F) including Kleine’s
Choices project 41 working with the Chilean state e-procurement platform Chilecompra to
work optional social and environmental criteria into the platform affecting how purchases
worth 7bn USD will be made. These projects indicate the impact of development
geographers' research on national policy making in other countries. This also occurs through
development geographers’ extensive contribution as expert witnesses for overseas
governments on topics and countries ranging from violence in Latin America (Jones) female
circumcision in Gambia (Chant) and environmental assessments of mining in El Salvador
Ecuador, Canada and the US (Bebbington).
Organisations and NGOs
Impact with social movements, NGOs and public and private sector companies is also an
important defining feature of development geography’s research and goes hand in hand with
simultaneous engagement at other scales (e.g. Mark Pelling’s work in Development Disaster
Risk aversion engages closely with NGOs). This engagement often brings direct benefit to
some of the poorest members of society (e.g. Bebbington’s research was credited by the
34
E.g. ESRC gender and development research on trafficking includes the International Organization
for Migration (IOM) as a partner, the other partner is the first NGO globally founded and run by
trafficked women - Shakti Samuha Nepal www.shaktisamuha.org.np ESRC RES -062-23-1490
Richardson, Laurie, Townsend and Poudel.
35
Foresight project Commission paper: International Dimensions of Climate Change. Discussion
Paper 5: Climate change and social capital; New Foresight commissioned program (2012) on
Improving Future Disaster Anticipation and Resilience
36
This committee has directly engaged with work by Simon and Unwin on ICTs for development and
Simon serves as one of only two academics on this committee’s specialist Africa Advisory Group.
37
e.g. Richardson et al on Nepal -current debate on citizenship and Bebbington on UK mining
companies.
38
Vira Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation project (ESPA: NE/I003924/1)
39
RES-062-23-0487
40
Close working with a range of NGOs and social movements on this project also shaped local policy
on Chinese development co-operation in Angola and Ghana.
41
www.ethicalchoices.net
Peru Support Group for ensuring a UK company paid compensation to farmers for human
rights violations). With interdisciplinary funding from the EPSRC Kleine’s project on Fair
Tracing 42 (which used smartphones to give consumers more traceability information)
persuaded the UK’s leading Ethical Consumer Magazine to move their online ethiscore
subscription service for shoppers to online phones. ESRC PhD collaborative awards (CASE)
have changed practice in development organisations through long term engagement.
Examples include with ethical companies: Traidcraft (x2 Hughes and Rigg and Townsend);
Body Shop (Kleine); and NGOs (Willis and Simon Street Children Africa 43); NGOs in India
(Porter, Rigg and Townsend grassroots)44, WaterAid (Desai and Loftus) ESRC CASE
students have also led into follow-on funding (e.g. Le Mare Res 000-224-302).
CONCLUSION
UK development geography has undergone a transformation over the last decade. It has
been highly successful in responding to calls for more critical thinking about what precisely is
meant by 'development geography' as opposed to 'geography in developing countries'
(Simon, 2011; Potter, 2002; Potter 2001). It is now internationally recognised as producing
cutting edge theory and research practice for an inter-connected world. Development
geography makes a unique contribution in Geography and the social sciences for the leading
role it plays in generating interdisciplinary research. In this way it is making important
contributions to the geography and politics of knowledge production about the key
challenges the world is currently facing. In a UK funding climate that is giving greater
recognition the impact of research, the discipline is being offered an important opportunity to
benefit from development geography’s international profile of excellence in engaged
research that makes a difference globally.
42
www.fairtracing.org. EPSRC Fair Tracing Project (2006-2009, £372k FEC)
Helped change conceptions and policy re child-headed households; published work is shaping
children/youth geographies debates.
44
Demonstrated the problems which grassroots women’s NGOs in Delhi have with Northern NGOs
(and their partners in Delhi) funded specifically to supply these grassroots women’s NGOs with
information.
43
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Appendix
Process and Acknowledgements
The consultation process started with an initial group e-mail to the Developing Areas
Research Group (DARG) committee members and 14 colleagues with whom I have
personally worked on development issues. This mail asked for responses to the ESRC set
questions and started to snowball further contacts. Another mail was sent to the wider
DARG membership also requesting responses. Targeted consultation was carried out by
phone, skype and e-mail with leading figures in the Development Studies as well as
Sociologists currently collaborating with development geographers. Other geographers with
specific remit for postgraduate funding and/or area studied funding were also contacted.
Face to face consultation also took place at the Association of American Geographers
annual conference in New York and helped finalise the first draft.
Three senior colleagues, identified through this process as leading developing geographers,
generously gave time to comment on two drafts.
The consultation process aimed to capture individual development geographers not involved
in DARG, but did not directly scope cross-over study groups (e.g. rural geography, women
and geography, biography, planning and environment) this is therefore a potential source of
bias. In part to offset this Baskar Vira and Jo Sharp were contacted to discuss the
representation of political ecology and gender and feminist geographies at the second draft
stage.
The following people provided invaluable information during this process and I am extremely
grateful for their support.
Development Geographers: Giles Mohan, Jonathan Rigg, David Simon, Marcus Power,
Janet Townsend, Charlotte Lemanski, Dorothea Kleine, Katie Willis, Tony Bebbington, Cathy
McIlwaine, Sylvia Chant, Nick James, Timothy Wright, David Demerrit, Henry Yeung, Eric
Neumayer, Deborah Bryceson, James Sidaway, Alex Hughes, Sarah Bradshaw, Baskar
Vira, Harriet Bulkeley, Colin McFarlane, Jane Pollard, Colin Marx, Fiona McConnel, Glyn
Williams, Ben Page, Claire Mercer, Rob Potter, Uma Kothari. Dan Brockington, Jo Sharp.
Other Geographers: Susan Owens, Neill Marshall, Catherine Souch, Linda Newson.
Others: Development Studies: David Hulme; Ruth Pearson. British Council: Adam Malan;
ESRC: Pui Chan; Sociology: Matt Baillie Smith, Diane Richardson.
Finally, I would like to acknowledge the research assistant support given by Rhiannon
Redpath, without whom compiling the data would have been extremely difficult in the time
frame. Her enthusiasm for the task was very welcome.
Appendix A
Table indicating the membership of DARG membership as a % in other RGS groups*
Group Name
Developing Areas
Planning and Environment
Social and Cultural
Political Geography
Economic Geography
Urban Geography
Women and Geography
Rural Geography
Population Geography
Mountains
Historical Geography
Geography of Health
Biogeography
British Geomorphological
Postgraduate Forum
Leisure and Tourism
History and Philosophy
Higher Education
Quantitative Methods
Transport Geography
Climate Change
Participatory Geography
GCYFWG
Post Socialist Geography
GISc
Coastal and Marine
SSQWG
% of DARG members
100.0
24.2
19
13.0
12.4
10.3
9.7
9.7
7.9
7.9
7.6
7.3
7.3
6.3
6.0
5.4
4.8
4.5
4.5
4.2
2.4
2.4
2.4
1.8
1.2
0.9
0.3
(source Catherine Souch, RGS-IBG)
*This table only includes members who are fellows of the RGS-IBG
Appendix B
Table indicating a summary of results from a SCOPUS search. The search looked at each of the following development journals in turn, searching within
them for the top 50 cited articles over the period 2006 – 2012. From this list, those papers written by, or co-written with geographers were identified and
collated, as a means of gauging impact of geographers' work outside of the Geography discipline.
Journal Title
Development and
Change
Journal of Development
Studies
Progress in
Development Studies
Third World Quarterly
World Development
Gender and
Development
Development in Practice
Bulletin of Latin
American Research
No.
Articles
Top
Ranking
5
12
7
2
12
2
6
5
15
1
2
22
3
3
6
2
Top Ranking Article Title
Jønsson, J. B. and D. F. Bryceson (2009). "Rushing for gold: Mobility and small-scale mining in East
Africa." Development and Change 40(2): 249-279.
Bennett, R., S. Morse, et al. (2006). "The economic impact of genetically modified cotton on South African
smallholders: Yield, profit and health effects." Journal of Development Studies 42(4): 662-677.
McFarlane, C. (2006). "Knowledge, learning and development: A post-rationalist approach." Progress in
Development Studies 6(4): 287-305.
McFarlane, C. (2006). "Crossing borders: Development, learning and the North-South divide." Third World
Quarterly 27(8): 1413-1437.
Blaikie, P. (2006). "Is Small Really Beautiful? Community-based Natural Resource Management in Malawi
and Botswana." World Development 34(11): 1942-1957.
Vullnetari, J. and R. King (2011). "Gendering remittances in Albania: A human and social development
perspective." Gender and Development 19(1): 39-51.
Oslender, U. (2007). "Violence in development: The logic of forced displacement on Colombia's Pacific
coast." Development in Practice 17(6): 752-764.
Gilbert, A. (2006). "Good urban governance: Evidence from a model city?" Bulletin of Latin American
Research 25(3): 392-419.
Rigg, J. (2006). "Land, farming, livelihoods, and poverty: Rethinking the links in the Rural South." World Development 34(1): 180-202. Ranked second in this
period but was ranked in the top ten for the decade
Appendix C
Table below indicates ESRC Human Geography grants awarded to Development Geographers since 2006.
Project
Reference
PI Full Name
Project Title
Children, transport and mobility in sub-Saharan Africa: developing a
RES-167-25child-centred evidence base to improve policy and change thinking
0028
Dr G Porter
across Africa
RES-167-25Professor C
0058
Jackson
Marriage, Power and Wellbeing
RES-167-25Tracing pharmaceuticals in South Asia: regulation, distribution and
0110
Professor R Jeffery consumption
RES-167-250005
Professor F Wu
Urban Poverty and Property Rights Changes in China
RES-167-25Professor B
Livelihoods after land reform: the poverty impacts of land redistribution
0037
Cousins
in southern Africa
RES-167-250157
Dr R Baulch
Ethnic Minority Underdevelopment in Vietnam
RES-167-250241
Dr AE Collins
The meaning of health security for disaster resilience in Bangladesh
RES-167-250169
Professor sc carr
Aid salary discrepancies and development workers' performance
RES-167-25The social conditions for successful community mobilisation: Learning
0193
Dr F Cornish
from sex worker led projects in India
RES-167-25Governance Implications of Private Standards Initiatives in Agri-Food
0195
Dr AM Tallontire
Chains
RES-167-250250
Dr EC Hannum
The Gansu Survey of Children and Families, Wave 3
RES-167-25Averting 'New Variant Famine' in Southern Africa: building food-secure
0167
Dr N Ansell
livelihoods with AIDS-affected young people
RES-167-25The intra-household allocation of resources: cross-cultural tests,
0251
Dr B Kebede
methodological innovations and policy implications
RES-167-25Professor A
0170
Bebbington
Social Movements and Poverty
RES-167-25Governance Implications of Private Standards Initiatives in Agri-Food
0195-A
Dr AM Tallontire
Chains
Dates
Awarded
Amount
Research Type
2006 – 10
412365
Programme Fellowship
2006 - 08
195152
Programme Fellowship
2006 - 09
677573
Programme Fellowship
2006 - 08
260657
Programme Fellowship
2006 - 10
663945
Programme Fellowship
2006 - 08
144923
Programme Fellowship
2007 - 08
249194
Programme Fellowship
2007 - 10
248807
Programme Fellowship
2007 - 10
236535
Programme Fellowship
248610
Programme Fellowship
2007 - 10
246146
Programme Fellowship
2007 - 09
249996
Programme Fellowship
2007 - 08
550746
Programme Fellowship
2007 - 10
245991
Programme Fellowship
2007 - 10
180478.5
Programme Fellowship
2007
RES-167-250268
RES-167-250327
RES-167-250337
RES-167-250251-A
RES-167-250361
RES-167-250285
RES-167-250387
RES-167-250296
RES-167-250448
RES-167-250507
RES-167-250591
RES-167-250562
RES-167-250483
RES-167-250503
RES-167-250488
RES-167-250443
RES-167-250439
Dr GO Williams
Embedding poor people's voices in local governance: participation and
political empowerment in India
Linking Migration, Reproduction and Wellbeing: Exploring The
Reproductive Strategies of Low-Income Rural-Urban Migrants in
Vietnam
Enforcing Transparency: Enhancing Poor People's Access to
Information in India
The intra-household allocation of resources: cross-cultural tests,
methodological innovations and policy implications
What Development Interventions Work? The long-term impact and
cost-effectiveness of anti-poverty interventions in Bangladesh
Development in the 'raw': What livelihood trajectories and poverty
outcomes tell us about welfare regimes and resilience in Afghanistan
Identifying barriers to TB diagnosis and treatment under a new rapid
diagnostic scheme.
Transforming livelihoods: work, migration and poverty in the Tiruppur
garment cluster, India
The Development of Migrant Villages under China's Rapid
Urbanization: Implications for Poverty and Slum Policies
2008 - 10
476996
Programme Fellowship
2008 - 10
106822
Programme Fellowship
2008 - 11
222807
Programme Fellowship
2008 - 10
503320.7
Programme Fellowship
2008 - 10
249640
Programme Fellowship
2008 - 10
249885
Programme Fellowship
2008 - 11
238692
Programme Fellowship
2008 - 10
249904
Programme Fellowship
2010 - 12
326510
Programme Fellowship
2010 - 13
499906
Programme Fellowship
2010- 12
2010 2012
313518
Programme Fellowship
244575
Programme Fellowship
2010 - 12
496420
Programme Fellowship
Professor R Jeffery
Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways
Making Space for the Poor: Law, Rights, Regulation and Street-Trade
in the 21st Century
Local governance, urban mobility and poverty reduction. Lessons from
Medellín, Colombia
Understanding the Tipping Point of Urban Conflict: Violence, Cities,
and Poverty Reduction in the Developing World
Biomedical and Health Experimentation in South Asia: Critical
Perspectives on collaboration, governance and competition
2010 - 12
499393
Programme Fellowship
Dr D Bryceson
Professor H
Schmitz
Professor MR
Duffield
Urban Growth and Poverty in Mining Africa
Challenging the Investment Climate Paradigm: governance, investment
and poverty reduction in Vietnam
Achieving Policy Coherence in Challenging Environments: Risk
Management and Aid Culture in Sudan and Afghanistan
2010 - 13
493323
Programme Fellowship
2010 - 12
273635
Programme Fellowship
2010 - 12
484990
Programme Fellowship
Dr C Locke
Professor JG
Manor
Dr A Verschoor
Dr AR Quisumbing
Dr P Kantor
Dr S Theobald
Dr GR De Neve
Professor F Wu
Dr S White
Ms A Brown
Dr JD Davila
Professor C Moser
Total; 10, 741, 455.15
Appendix D:
Table identifying ESRC awards in Human Geography with Area and Development Studies listed as contributing discipline
Reference
number
RES -000 -22 3743
RES-000-220003
RES-000-220400
RES-000-220573
RES-000-230757
RES-000-220985
RES-155-250020
RES-348-250008
RES-000-222034
PTA-026-271577
PTA-026-271476
RES-062-230487
PI Name
Dr DJB Shaw
Professor AM
Williams
Professor PA
Longley
Dr C Jeffrey
Dr CC Mercer
Dr J Round
Professor S Morse
Dr D MedyckyjScott
Professor JA Hardy
Dr AJ Harris
Dr EL Ho
Dr GM Mohan
Project Title
Russian Views of ‘Sustainable
Development’ and Their Historical
Antecedents
Skilled Labour Mobility: Returned
Migrants from Slovakia to the UK
Surnames as a Quantitative Evidence
Resource for the Social Sciences
Democracy, Higher Education and Youth
Cultures: Student Politics in North India
Development through the Diaspora:
Hometown Associations in Africa and
Britain
Surviving Post-Socialism: Evaluating the
Role of the Informal Sector in Ukraine
Analysing Partnership in Aid Chains: A
Catholic Church Case Study
UKBORDERS (Geographic Data Unit):
services for supporting geographic data
for learning, teaching and research.
Cross border trade union collaboration
and Polish migrant workers in Britain
Rethinking the creative city: twenty-first
century urbanism in London and Mumbai
Geographical perspectives on citizenship:
'Highly skilled' Singaporean
transmigrants in London
The politics of Chinese engagement with
African 'development': Case studies of
Dates
Amount
awarded
2002 – 05
29330
2003 - 04
39900
2003 - 04
43784
2004 - 05
44830
2004 - 08
189555
2005 - 06
23802
2005 - 07
43674
2006 - 11
1127893
2007 - 08
99282
2007 - 08
94912
2007 - 08
85907
2007 - 11
356161
Discipline Name
Contributing
Discipline
Research Type
Human
Geography
Human
Geography
Human
Geography
Human
Geography
Area and
Development Studies
Area and
Development Studies
Area and
Development Studies
Area and
Development Studies
Research Grant
Small
Research Grant
Small
Research Grant
Small
Research Grant
Small
Human
Geography
Human
Geography
Human
Geography
Area and
Development Studies
Area and
Development Studies
Area and
Development Studies
Research Grant
Standard
Research Grant
Small
Research
Related Activity
Human
Geography
Human
Geography
Human
Geography
Area and
Development Studies
Area and
Development Studies
Area and
Development Studies
Research
Related Activity
Research Grant
Small
PostDoctoral
Fellowship
Human
Geography
Human
Geography
Area and
Development Studies
Area and
Development Studies
PostDoctoral
Fellowship
Research Grant
Standard
RES-061-250148
RES-000-222769
RES-348-250011
PTA-026-271754
RES-000-222841
Dr C McFarlane
Angola and Ghana
Critically analysing risk communication
pathways: Lessons from youth-centred
disaster risk reduction approaches in El
Salvador and the Philippines
Exploring Remittance Strategies among
Zimbabweans in West Yorkshire
DIaD - Data Integration and
Dissemination
Re-thinking Gender: Reflections on Work
and Home in Siem Reap, Cambodia
Education, Citizenship Formation,
Democratisation in South Africa
Indigenous women, political rights and
development decision-making in
Ecuador: Spaces of engagement for
gendered and ethnic citizens
Labour-Practice Responses to EthicalTrading Codes of Conduct at Sites of
Production: A Case Study of the Sri
Lankan Apparel Sector
New economy, old geography: rethinking
the economic fortunes of Russian cities
under market transition
Everyday sanitation: a comparative study
of Mumbai's informal settlements
Professor K
Richards
River Basin Governance Research
Network: The European Union and China
Dr G Bridge
GEOGRAPHIES OF ENERGY TRANSITION
The USSR and its contribution to global
environmental scientific understanding
and policy prescription, 1945-1991
Emigration States in the Global
Governance of Migration
Dr TM Tanner
Professor AJ Bailey
Dr D MedyckyjScott
Dr K Brickell
Dr DP Hammett
RES-062-230517
Dr SA Radcliffe
RES-061-250181
Dr KN Ruwanpura
PTA-026-271997
RES-062-231669
RES-810-210071
RES-451-260692
RES-062-231734
PTA-026-272323
Dr O Golubchikov
Dr JD Oldfield
Dr AJ Gamlen
99998
Human
Geography
Human
Geography
Human
Geography
Human
Geography
Human
Geography
Area and
Development Studies
Area and
Development Studies
Area and
Development Studies
Area and
Development Studies
Area and
Development Studies
First Grant
Research Grant
Small
Research
Related Activity
PostDoctoral
Fellowship
Research Grant
Small
2008 - 12
152423
Human
Geography
Area and
Development Studies
Research Grant
Standard
2008 - 12
204421
Human
Geography
Area and
Development Studies
First Grant
2009 - 10
94813
2009 - 11
232485
Human
Geography
Human
Geography
Area and
Development Studies
Area and
Development Studies
2009 - 11
35805
2009 - 11
17992
Human
Geography
Human
Geography
Area and
Development Studies
Area and
Development Studies
2010 - 12
187243
2010 - 11
100472
Human
Geography
Human
Geography
Area and
Development Studies
Area and
Development Studies
2007 - 10
243592
2008 - 09
99850
2008 - 09
88168
2008 - 08
93009
2008 - 09
PostDoctoral
Fellowship
Standard Grant
Full Research
Award
Seminar
Research Grant
Standard
PostDoctoral
Fellowship
Dr CB Herrick
Non-territorial Sovereignty and
Unrecognised Statehood: The Political
Geographies of the Tibetan Governmentin-Exile
Developments after a Disaster: The
Tsunami, Poverty, Conflict and
Reconstruction in Sri Lanka
The Political Ecology of Extractive
Industries and Changing Waterscapes in
the Andes
Translating technical solutions into sociotechnical possibilities: enabling
technological transfer in the Bangladesh
shipbreaking industry
Alcohol Control, Poverty and
Development in South Africa
Dr A Le Mare
Handicrafts in South Africa
PTA-026-272536
Dr FR McConnell
PTA-026-272485
Dr K Kapadia
RES-061-250446
Dr JR Budds
RES-192-220033
RES-167-250473
RES-000-224303
Professor N
Gregson
2010 - 11
86897
Human
Geography
Area and
Development Studies
PostDoctoral
Fellowship
2010 - 12
104137
Human
Geography
Area and
Development Studies
PostDoctoral
Fellowship
2010 - 12
278235
Human
Geography
Area and
Development Studies
First Grant
2010 - 11
6839
2010 - 13
217551
2011 - 11
58412
Human
Geography
Human
Geography
Human
Geography
Area and
Development Studies
Area and
Development Studies
Area and
Development Studies
Full Research
Award
Programme
Fellowship
Research Grant
Small
Appendix E Table identifying ESRC awards in Human Geography with other contributing disciplines (NINA)
Project
Reference
PI Name
Project Title
Dates
R000223601
Professor R Black
Colonial Forestry and Natural Resources Policy in
Mozambique
2002 - 03
24225
Human Geography
T026271465
Postdoctoral Fellowships
Cyborg Urbanization: Theorizing Water and Urban
Infrastructure
2002 - 03
26000
Human Geography
R000271228
Dr B Page
Professor M
Gandy
2002 - 06
142368
Human Geography
Environmental
Planning/Planning
RES-143-250007
Professor MR
Redclift
Chewing Gum: Transnational Histories of Consumption
and Production
2003 - 05
110186
Human Geography
Economic and
Social History
T026271289
RES-221-250044
RES-000-220630
Dr S Legg
2003 - 04
25470
Human Geography
2003 - 04
39636
Human Geography
Management and
Business Studies
Dr J McGregor
Postdoctoral Fellowship
Rapid Climate Change UK; Towards an Institutional
Theory of Adaptation
The Shaping of the New Zimbabwean Diaspora:
Inclusion and Exclusion in the UK
2004 - 05
44794
Human Geography
Sociology
RES-000-230528
Dr AD Cumbers
The Politics of Convergence Space in Global Justice
Networks
2004 - 05
78637
Human Geography
Sociology
RES-148-250028
Dr D Sporton
Post-Conflict Identities: Practices and Affiliations of
Somali Refugee Children
2005 - 07
121328
Human Geography
Sociology
2005 - 08
121183
Human Geography
Social Policy
2005 - 06
29125
Human Geography
2005 - 07
99781
Human Geography
RES-148-250050
PTA-026-270522
RES-000-230830
Dr M Pelling
Dr K Walsh
Being in Public: The Multiple Childhoods of Mexican
'Street' Children
Expatriate Belongings: Domesticity, Intimacy and
Foreignness
Dr A Hughes
Organising Ethical Trade: A UK-USA Comparison
Dr GA Jones
Amount
Discipline Name
Cont Discipline
Name
Research
Type
Research
Grant Small
PostDoctoral
Fellowship
Research
Fellowship
Substantive
Research
Contract
PostDoctoral
Fellowship
Programme
Fellowship
Research
Grant Small
Research
Grant
Standard
Substantive
Research
Contract
Substantive
Research
Contract
PostDoctoral
Fellowship
Research
Grant
Standard
RES-228-250014
RES-000-221427
RES-451-260249
PTA-026-270854
RES-000-221286
RES-060-230007
RES-062-230367
RES-451-260478
RES-066-270002
RES-451-260644
Dr M Pelling
Security, Social Instability and Environmental Crisis in
the Global South
Population Ageing and Sustainable Livelihoods in
regions affected by HIV/AIDS.
Political Science
and International
Relations
2005 - 06
44962
Human Geography
2005 - 06
44438
Human Geography
Gender, Work and Life in the New Global Economy
The Political Ecology of Water and Uneven Development
in Latin America
Street children's life paths and family relations in Cape
Town, South Africa
2005 - 07
14990
Human Geography
2006 - 06
30617
Human Geography
2006 - 06
44999
Human Geography
2006 - 11
3643468
Human Geography
Professor MR
Redclift
The Waste of the World
Human security and local governance: negotiating
environmental risk management under rapid
urbanisation in the Yucatan (
Social
Anthropology
Social
Anthropology
2007 - 10
534176
Human Geography
Environmental
Planning
Dr T Mitchell
Seminar Series on Pro-Poor Climate Adaptation
2007 - 09
14940
Human Geography
Dr D Sporton
Professor DC
Perrons
Dr JR Budds
Dr L van Blerk
Professor N
Gregson
Dr HA Bulkeley
Dr H M Schneider
Urban Transitions: climate change, global cities and the
transformation of socio-technical systems
Sustainable Livelihoods approaches - What have we
learnt?
2008 - 12
567455
Human Geography
2008 - 11
17960
Human Geography
Substantive
Research
Contract
Research
Grant Small
Full Research
Award
PostDoctoral
Fellowship
Research
Grant Small
Large Grant
Research
Grant
Standard
Seminar
Political Science
and International
Studies
Programme
Fellowship
Seminar
Appendix F Table identifying ESRC – DFID joint scheme grants awarded to development geographers:
Project
Reference
RES-167-250028
RES-167-250241
RES-167-250167
RES-167-250170
RES-167-250268
RES-167-250387
RES-167-250488
RES-167-250473
RES-167-250714
n/a
PI Name
Project Title
Dr G Porter
Dr AE Collins
Children, transport and mobility in sub-Saharan Africa:
developing a child-centred evidence base to improve policy and
change thinking across Africa
The meaning of health security for disaster resilience in
Bangladesh
Dr N Ansell
Averting 'New Variant Famine' in Southern Africa: building foodsecure livelihoods with AIDS-affected young people
Professor A
Bebbington
Dr GO Williams
Dr S Theobald
Dr D Bryceson
Dr K Brickell
Amount
Awarded
2006 – 10
412365
2007 - 08
249194
2007 -09
249996
Area and Development
Studies
2007 - 10
245991
2008 - 10
476996
2008 - 11
238692
Urban Growth and Poverty in Mining Africa
Alcohol Control, Poverty and Development in South Africa
2010 - 13
493323
2010 - 13
204,455.88
Leveraging Buying Power for development –Ethical consumption
and public procurement in Chile and
Brazil
Lay and Institutional Knowledges of Domestic Violence Law:
Towards Active Citizenship in Rural and Urban Cambodia
Discipline Name
Area and Development
Studies
Area and Development
Studies
Social Movements and Poverty
Embedding poor people's voices in local governance:
participation and political empowerment in India
Identifying barriers to TB diagnosis and treatment under a new
rapid diagnostic scheme.
Dr C Herrick
Dr D Kleine
Dates
2011 - 13
2012-14
328,469
196,355
Area and Development
Studies
Area and Development
Studies
Area and Development
Studies
Area and Development
Studies
Initiative
description
Research Type
Description
ESRC / DFID
Joint Scheme
Programme
fellowship
ESRC / DFID
Joint Scheme
ESRC / DFID
Joint Scheme
Programme
fellowship
Programme
fellowship
ESRC / DFID
Joint Scheme
ESRC / DFID
Joint Scheme
ESRC / DFID
Joint Scheme
ESRC / DFID
Joint Scheme
ESRC/ DFID
Joint Scheme
Programme
fellowship
Programme
fellowship
Programme
fellowship
Programme
fellowship
n/a
Human Geography
ESRC/ DFID
Joint Scheme
n/a
ESRC/ DFID
Joint Scheme
n/a
Human Geography
Human Geography