Alexandra Wanjku Kelbert is a researcher and educator with interests in sociology, development studies, race and gender relations, decoloniality, social movements, feminism and intersectionality.
Alexandra is an IDS Alum, who graduated with an MA in Development Studies in 2012.
Following Jamie Oliver's "sugar tax" victory in the UK, Alex Wanjiku Kelbert provides insights on the impact of economy on the poor people's food choices around the world.
4 April 2016
IDS Report;
This report finds that the global food crises of 2007-11 has brougth about lasting changes to the relationship between the work people do and the food they eat - the costs of which have gone uncounted.
8 September 2016
IDS Bulletin Vol. 45 Nos. 1
This article argues that rapid recent global economic shocks have revealed a poor man's patriarchy – a washed-out version of ancient male privileges, but yoked to responsibilities poor men can rarely meet. At the same time, norms that helped keep women at home in unpaid care roles have...
4 January 2016
How are rapid recent food price changes linked to climate and environmental change? How do people who are vulnerable to these changes view these links?
14 July 2014
Evidence Report 9
Unpaid care work is directly linked to the economic empowerment of women and girls. There is a large and robust body of evidence about the extent of unpaid care work that women and girls do, and its contributions to both the economy and human development outcomes. But is this evidence being used...
9 July 2013