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Constructing Transnational Action Research Networks: Observations and Reflections from the case of the Citizenship DRC

Published by: IDS

Many contemporary issues of development and governance are complex beyond the capacities of single institutions or countries. As a result, in recent years we have seen growing attention paid to the importance of networks - ranging from advocacy networks to multi-stakeholder partnerships - for the solution of development problems.

Development with a Body: Sexuality, Human Rights and Development

Published by: Zed Books

This book offers compelling insights into contemporary challenges and transformative possibilities of the struggle for sexual rights. It combines the conceptual with the political, and offering inspiring examples of practical interventions and campaigns that emphasize the positive dimensions of sexuality.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow? The Politics and Dilemmas of Researching Citizenship and Marginality

Published by: IDS

Research on development is normative, engaged and seeks to make a difference since it focuses on the excluded, on power relations and aims at the empowerment of the voiceless and increasingly on the 'pedagogy of the powerful'. This makes it even more loaded and contested than other kinds of research.

Vaccine Anxieties: Global Science, Child Health and Society

Published by: Earthscan

Vaccine Anxieties explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria.

The Cultural and Political Dynamics of Technology Delivery: The Case of Infant Immunisation in Africa

This comparative study in Sierra Leone is part of a wider anthropological research that entailed the conduction of larger studies in the Gambia and Guinea, and another small comparative study in Nigeria.

Governing Insecurity: Democratic Control of Military and Security Establishments in Transitional Democracies

Published by: Zed Books

Democratic institutions in the post-Cold War era have come to be regarded as the only legitimate forms of governance. Elections have seemingly replaced coups as the main mechanism for changing rulers, and there remain very few overtly military governments.

Democratic Transition in Conflict-Torn Societies

Published by: Zed Books

This three-book series is the product of an IDS-based research programme, funded by the Department for International Development, which explored variations in democratic institutions in countries emerging from violent conflict.

Making Rights Real: Exploring Citizenship, Participation and Accountability

Published by: IDS

In this IDS Bulletin, researchers associated with the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability (DRC) share emerging work around the meanings of rights and citizenship, spaces and places for participation, and new forms of accountability in different parts of the world.

Realizing Rights: Transforming Approaches to Sexual Reproductive Wellbeing

Sexual and reproductive wellbeing has gained recognition as a basic right, enshrined in international law. Yet reality on the ground is different, as society, health programmes and aid agencies are all entrenched in old ways. Fundamental shifts in thinking and practice are needed to realize these rights and transform these realities.

Seasonal Dimensions to Rural Poverty

The process which has led to this book was sparked off by the discovery in a seminar at the Institute of Development Studies at the...