Livelihoods, mobility and resources
DASA鈥檚 tradition of sustained 鈥榦n the ground鈥 research contributes to better understandings of the diverse ways in which people on the African continent make their livelihoods.
DASA researchers have highlighted the importance of different forms of mobility (rural-urban, seasonal, transnational and transcontinental) in livelihood strategies, and pointed to the impacts of a range of governmental and donor policies on unequal access to resources.
Researchers
Academic staff
- Reginald Cline-Cole, specialises in geography, environment, rural energy, area studies
- Marco Di Nunzio, specialises in marginality, development, the politics of existence and the right to the city
Doctoral research
- Tessa Pijnaker: Styling success: ICT, design and public performance among technology entrepreneurs in Accra, Ghana
- Veera Tagliabue: Class experiences among international students from the SADC region studying in South Africa
- Felix Tombindo: Conservation, Landscape and Belonging on the Shores of Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe
Recent selected publications
- 2022. Marco Di Nunzio. , Political Geography 98: 102671
- 2022. Marco Di Nunzio. 鈥溾. American Ethnologist, 49(3): 401-412
- 2019 Marco di Nunzio, . Cornell University Press
- 2016. Reginald Cline-Cole. Wood Energy Interventions and Development in Kano, Nigeria鈥. Land Use Policy 52.
Projects
- Streetlife, marginality and development in urban Ethiopia
- Rethinking work
- Conspiracies to build. The political and moral economy of construction booms