Politics, Governance and Development (GGD) Research Cluster

Description

This cluster brings together expertise on Africa, South and South-East Asia, Latin America and other parts of the developing world and supports MA and BA programmes in development and geography.

Scholars play key roles in research centres including: the Sussex Africa and Asia centres; the Centre for Conflict and Security Research; the Centre for Rights and Anti-Colonial Justice; the Sussex Centre for Migration Research; the Centre for Global Political Economy and the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme and the STEPS Centre.

Scholars with an applied dimension to their work contribute to national and international policy debates in wide-ranging fields from security and peace-building agendas, to financial policy and economic regulation, to green energy or the governance of mobility in contexts of rapid urbanization in the developing world. Academics in this cluster are also engaged with on-going debates over how to ‘decolonize’ research and teaching in development and geography.

Research is diverse in focus and approach. One body of work investigates state practices of governance, stressing intersections with global and local politics. This includes research on how states use sovereign wealth funds and off-shore tax-havens, exploring emerging geographies of financial governance. Cutting edge methodologies draw on leaked data (Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, and Offshore Leaks) to analyse the impact of changing offshore regulatory and enforcement landscape used to launder and store the proceeds of corruption. Research on conflict in Africa also explores state politics and practice (among other issues) by making connections between transnational networks, elite politics and localised, regional trajectories of violence. This involves new approaches to the collection and use of quantitative data, also contributing new geographical understandings of links between conflict, environmental change and mobility.

A second body of work approaches the themes of politics, governance and development from the bottom up, focussing on understandings and practices of citizenship in diverse locations, drawing on ethnographic modes of investigation, and building on long histories of partnership with academic institutions and colleagues in Africa and Asia. Research includes studies of citizenship practices and everyday encounters with the state in rural South Asia, as well as work on social movements in Latin America including studies of indigenous people’s mobilizations, conflicts over resource sovereignty and conservation. A series of interconnected projects on ‘Migrants on the Margins’, explores mobility, governance and citizenship practices in informal settlements in four dramatically expanding cities in Africa and Asia. Other work focusses on understandings of climate change and the take up of new technologies in different parts of Africa.

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University of Sussex
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9RH

Partner Infrastructures

University of Sussex Asia Centre (USAC)

Sussex Asia Centre is a regional research centre focusing on the connective and comparative study of Asia. The centre advances this agenda through the empirical study and analysis of networks, routes,… read more about University of Sussex Asia Centre (USAC)

Brighton
BN1 9SJ
United Kingdom

Centre for Rights and Anti-Colonial Justice

The Centre for Rights and Anti-Colonial Justice at Sussex is a new initiative formed of two long-standing research centres: the Sussex Rights and Justice Research Centre and the Centre for Colonial an… read more about Centre for Rights and Anti-Colonial Justice

University Of Sussex
Sussex House
Southern Ring Road, Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9RH
United Kingdom

Sussex Centre for Global Insecurities Research (CGI)

The Sussex Centre for Global Insecurities Research (CGI) is an interdisciplinary scholarly community that rethinks the formations, geographies and embodied experiences of insecurities from a global pe… read more about Sussex Centre for Global Insecurities Research (CGI)

University Of Sussex
Sussex House
Southern Ring Road, Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9RH
United Kingdom

Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR)

The Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR) brings together an interdisciplinary community of migration faculty and postgraduate students. Members conduct high quality theoretically-driven empiric… read more about Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR)

University Of Sussex
Sussex House
Southern Ring Road, Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9RH
United Kingdom

Centre For Global Political Economy (CGPE)

The Centre for Global Political Economy is a vibrant community of scholars from an array of disciplines, united by a concern with how global capitalism generates diverse patterns of wealth, dispossess… read more about Centre For Global Political Economy (CGPE)

University Of Sussex
Sussex House
Southern Ring Road, Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9RH
United Kingdom

Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP)

The Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP) delivers interdisciplinary research to help achieve the global sustainability goals for humanity and the environment. The UN Sustainable Development… read more about Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP)

University Of Sussex
Sussex House
Sussex House
Brighton
BN1 9RH
United Kingdom