Inaugural lecture - Professor Lisa Ann Richey
Linking Global Development Discourses and Local Bodies Friday the 21st of May 2010 14.00-15.00 - Department of Society and Globalisation, theory room 23.2 - The Institute will host a small reception after the lecture
Lisa Ann Richey’s inaugural lecture will explore the utility of “anthro-politics” as a thematic approach to the study of global politics and local cultures and material practices. Professor Richey will draw on her research over the past two decades on international development and Africa. Her work has examined new forms of aid and celebrities, HIV/AIDS treatment, reproductive health, population policy and gender and development interventions. Professor Richey’s research interests involve reclaiming the important areas of discourse and social processes for social scientific analysis as a way of demonstrating empirically how the global understanding of “development” problems is not easily translatable into the lived experiences of those to be developed.
Lisa Ann Richey is Professor (MSO) of International Development Studies at the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University. She is the author of Brand Aid: Celebrities, Consumption and Development with Stefano Ponte (Minneapolis and London: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2011), Population Politics and Development: From the Policies to the Clinics (New York and London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008), and the co-editor of “Women and Development: Rethinking Policy and Reconceptualizing Practice” (special issue of Women's Studies Quarterly, 2003). She completed post-doctoral training in the Department of Population and International Health at Harvard University and a Ph.D. in the Department Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the U.S. Professor Richey’s research in Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa has been supported by the Danish Social Science Research Council, the Development Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, and the Fulbright
Foundation. In 2003-2004 she was awarded a prestigious Soros Fellowship in Reproductive Health and Rights from Columbia University.