Our researchers
ISS staff
Murat Arsel, Professor of Political Economy of Sustainable Development - Research group coordinator
Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Professor of Agrarian Studies
Andrew Fischer, Associate Professor in Social Policy and Development Studies - Research Group Coordinator
Julien-François Gerber, Assistant Professor of Environment and Development
Wendy Harcourt, Professor of Gender, Diversity and Sustainable Development
Roy Huijsmans, Associate Professor Childhood and Youth Studies
Auma Okwany, Assistant Professor in Social Policy
Mindi Leigh Schneider, Assistant Professor in Agrarian, Food and Environmental Studies
Max Spoor, Emeritus Professor of Development Studies
Oane Visser, Associate Professor of Rural Development Studies
Mahmoud Meskoub, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies
Affiliated Staff
Harriett Friedmann, Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada
Cristóbal Kay, Emeritus Professor Development Studies
Ashwani Saith, Emeritus Professor Rural Economics
Ben White, Emeritus Professor Rural Sociology
Marc Wuyts, Emeritus Professor Quantitative Applied Economics
PhD researchers
| Ana Lucia Badillo | |
| Emma Lynn Cantal | Convergence amidst diversity: The political economy of residualist models of social protection in Cambodia and the Philippines |
| Benedict Yeyugsah | The Political Economy of Social Protection Expansion in Africa in the context of Broader Struggles for Development Policy Autonomy |
| Daniela Andrade | Brazilian Investments in Mozambique |
| Zoe Brent | Land Access Mechanisms in the Global North |
| Natacha Bruna | Extractivism and Climate Change Politics in Mozambique |
| Nguyet Dang Bao | The Political economy of cross border agricultural wage labour: ethnic minority Vietnamese working in farms in Southern China |
| Kwalu Samwel Dede | The Exclusive breast feeding dilemma in Tanzania. A case study of Dodoma Region |
| Cecile Fameree | Collective Action Revisited in Cases of Land Grabs in the Peruvian Jungle: Reactions from Below, Transparency and the Role of the State |
| Consuelo Fernandez-Salvador | Negotiating Identity: A Study on Ethnic Identity in the Context of Development and Mining Exploitation in the Shuar Territory, in the Amazon Region of Ecuador |
| Adwoa Yeboah Gyapong | The Agrarian Dynamics of Oil Palm Development and Expansion: An Empirical Analyses of the Land and Labour Nexus in Ghana |
| Eric Gutierrez | Criminals without borders: agrarian change and interdependency in opium and coca commodity chains |
| Shigehisa Kasahara | The Flying Geese Paradigm: A Critical Study of its Application to East Asian Regional Development |
| Huei-Ling Lai | A Political Ecology Approach to Sustainability transition: grassroots Innovations in Taiwan |
| Corrine Lamain | |
| Elyse Mills | Dynamics of overlapping Global Food Climate and Fisheries Politics, Interconnecting issues, Movements and Events |
| Ben Radley | The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on National Processes of Accumulation and Development: Natural Resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Martha Jane Robbins | Food Sovereignty and the Politics of Food System Localization |
| Christina Schiavoni | Competing Sovereignties in the Political Construction of Food Sovereignty |
| Yukari Sekine | |
| Anne Siebert | Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture: Understanding Interlinkages and Exploring Implications in the South African Context |
| Angelica Maria Ocampo Talero | Young People, Development and the Construction of the Public in a Rural Conflict Region in Colombia |
| Louis Thiemann | The Third Class: Artisans within, besides and beyond the capitalist economy |
| Salena Tramel | Resource control grabs from the landscape level and political reactions |
| Ratha Thuon | Land Grabbing in Cambodia |
| Ana Portocarrero Lacayo | Climate Change Adaptation and Food Insecurity in Nicaragua: Discourses, power, resistance, transformation |
| Umut Kocagoz | Authoritarian Regime in Relation to Peasant politics: the case of Hazelnut Farmers in Turkey |
| Valeria Lauria | |
| Amod Shah | The political character of resistance to land acquisition in India in an era of climate change and populism |
| Antonio Roman Alcala | Authoritarian Populism and Emancipatory Movements in Rural and Agrarian California |
| Claudia Rodriguez Orrego | The Political economy of judicialization of welfare reforn in Colombia |
| Daglha Duo | Social Policy, Ageing, and elderly care in Tibetan areas in western China in the context of rapid socioeconomic transformation and marginalization |
| Daniela Pessoa de Goes Calmon | Global politics of dispossession and the Amazon/Cerrado frontier |
| Milja Fenger | Reproductive freedom in the context of environmental justice |
| Constance Dupuis | WEGO project - FPE of Aging |
| Anna Voss | Women organisations in gendered economic landschapes in rural Italy/Feminist Political AgroEcology |
| Ye Xu | The Political Economy of Industrial Tree Plantations in the Era of Global Land Rush: The Case of Guangxi, China |
| Emmanuel Otto Omony | Governance and Social Accountability in the Provision of Family planning in Post Conflict Northern Uganda |
| Annah Kamusiime | Representations of Young Motherhood in Uganda: Policy Implications on Sexual and Reproductive Health outcomes |