Centre for New Economies of Development

The Centre for New Economies of Development is a UK-based collaboration between anthropologists at the Universities of Edinburgh, Sussex and Oxford.

Through public engagement and academic research the Centre seeks to engage with the private sector actors – global corporations, entrepreneurs, investment and hedge funds – that are shaping the political economy and material politics of international development.

With a commitment to ethnographic field based studies the Centre aims to critically examine the implications of market-centred paradigms for development and raise new questions about responsibility, accountability,
entitlement and sustainability.

 

CURRENT RESEARCH TAKING PLACE WITHIN THE CENTRE INCLUDES:

Low Carbon Energy and Development, Jamie Cross
> http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/social_anthropology/cross_jamie

Market-based approaches to development, Entrepreneurship, women’s economic empowerment, Catherine Dolan
> http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/research/people/Pages/CatherineDolan.aspx

Special Economic Zones, Jamie Cross
> http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/social_anthropology/cross_jamie

Corporate Social Responsibility & Ethical Consumption, Catherine Dolan
> http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/research/people/Pages/CatherineDolan.aspx

Corporate Social Responsibility, Moral Economy and Extractive Industry, Dinah Rajak
> http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/116302

Risk, Finance and Extractive Industries in Bangladesh, Paul Gilbert
> http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/275733

Health Systems and Fragile States, Alice Street
> http://www.sussex.ac.uk/anthropology/people/peoplelists/person/220794