The Governance, Law and Social Justice research group works with a wide variety of researchers including ISS faculty, post-docs, visiting researchers and PhD candidates.
ISS faculty and post-docs
Visiting and Affiliated researchers
Joop de Wit - Associate Professor in Public Policy and Development Management
Des Gasper - Emeritus Professor of Human Development, Development Ethics and Public Policy
Antony Otieno Ong'ayo - Academic researcher
Ayhan Işik - Academic researcher
Tefera Negash Gebregziabher - Visiting researcher
Cathi Albertyn - Professor / Co-supervisor from the University of the Witwatersrand, Joint ISS-Wits PhD Programme
Jonathan Klaaren - Professor / Co-supervisor from the University of the Witwatersrand, Joint ISS-Wits PhD Programme
Tshepo Madlingozi - Associate Professor / Co-supervisor from the University of the Witwatersrand, Joint ISS-Wits PhD Programme
Hadeel Abu Hussein - Legal Mobilization Fellow, Legal Mobilization Project
Ahmed Abofoul - Legal Mobilization Fellow, Legal Mobilization Project
Michael Farrely - affiliate researcher
Kody Moodley
Malte Luken
PhD researchers
Cinematic representation of gender and sexuality in liberation war movies of Bangladesh (2011 – 2020) | |
Accountability and service delivery performance in Uganda: A comparative study of the education and social protection sectors | |
Localized learning and regional development in central Asia: Joint ventures, industrial policy and economic restructuring on rare earth industry in Kazakhstan | |
Migration policies’ influence on Mexico’s migration transition after 40 years of neoliberalism: A case study of migration policies toward digital nomads and NTCA migrants | |
Climate change adaptation and food insecurity in Nicaragua: Discourses, power, resistance, transformation | |
Values education in Brazil: A study of three educational initiatives based on value formation | |
Ai, cryptography & the emergence of web3: An icma-fr analysis of the political economy of the contemporary internet | |
Can we practice as we preach? The contribution of diverse perspectives to the emergence of civic logic in Libya - the case of Libya and EU efforts | |
Homeless people and homelessness policy and practice in Delhi | |
Women´s daily mobilities to work by public transport in Guadalajara, Mexico | |
Multilevel disaster resilience governance (MLG) in marginalized communities: The case of grassroots organizations, GROs, in Nairobi’s informal settlements | |
Migration discourses in un emerging governance arrangements: The GFDM, the IOM and the GCSORM | |
Interrogating the relationship between the company, the state and human beings: Reimagining juristic personality by re-centering the human in human rights | |
The political economy of rights-based judicialization of healthcare in Colombia: Distributive dynamics of judicial interventions on the reform of healthcare policy | |
Understanding humanitarian governance in Democratic Republic of Congo: Community-driven accountability and advocacy in humanitarian actions | |
Constructing integration from below: Comparative urban experiences of young people in the Netherlands | |
Persistent institutionalization of children with severe multiple impairments in Russia: Reasons, dynamics, solutions | |
When power meets uncertainty: Collapse, crisis and the politics of urban water scarcity in South Africa | |
A feminist humanitarian action? Possibilities and encounters: Learning from the experiences of crisis affected populations in Colombia | |
Coalition-building for pro-poor policy reform | |
Policy advocacy and global climate governance: The case of Chinese NGOs | |
Decolonizing humanitarianism: A diaspora humanitarian perspective: the case of Palestinian German diaspora organisations’ response to the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip | |
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Re:construct - seeking to understand the social dimension of transition to the circular economy in the low and middle-income contexts | |
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On being education nomads: How Mongolian herders' children straddle ways of knowing and relating. | |
Green industrial policy, value chains and critical raw materials: the case of Brazil | |
Fighting back against accumulation by dispossession: The territorialization of anti-neoliberal struggles - an immanent causality morphogenetic approach | |
Doing collaborative and participatory research with people engaging in transactional sex, humanitarian actors and academic researchers in Pakistan, Colombia, DRC and the Netherlands | |
Ideas of home and human security for communities affected by disaster-displacement in India | |
On money, capitalism and development: An inquiry to the generative mechanism of capitalism | |
Mekong Delta before the flood: Climate policy and community action | |
Neopatrimonialism, pockets of effectiveness and pro-poor policy-making: Competitive clientelism and agro-industrial policy-making in Ghana and Uganda | |
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Policy paradigms, networks and practices: Analyzing change in the thinking about economic development influencing policy and strategy making in early-21st-century Brazil | |
Humanitarian consequences of urbanization for the Red Cross | |
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Ways to survive, hurdles to cross: Refugee entrepreneurship and networking in precarity | |
Understanding the power of the ‘local’ in manoeuvring between diverging and converging humanitarian and peacebuilding paradigms | |
Advancing substantive equality and socio-economic rights: Contestations surrounding social assistance, elites and intersectional systemic inequalities in South Africa | |
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Security and mobility: Theorizing and applying a human security framework in the field of migration governance | |
Palestine: A case of neoliberalization | |
The role of the state, gender and politics in Ethiopian international peacekeeping | |
Human rights as a site of contestations in Asean regionalism | |
The policy innovation process of community-driven development in rural China and development actors' mindsets | |
Crises management and transitions in the European neighbourhood: How far beyond the liberal transition paradigm? |