Outputs (8)

Refugee identity and integration in Germany during the European “migration crisis”: Why local community support matters, and why policy gets it wrong (2022)
Journal Article

Although the 2015 “refugee crisis” dominated Europe’s policy-making agenda, little research was actually conducted with refugees. Using focus groups, interviews and photovoice, this study explores the identity and integration processes of 20 refugees... Read More about Refugee identity and integration in Germany during the European “migration crisis”: Why local community support matters, and why policy gets it wrong.

Women saving the world: Narratives of gender and development on global radio (2022)
Book Chapter

Radio has long been used as a tool for development – particularly when promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment – but far more attention has been paid to local community radio than to radio with a global reach. This chapter seeks to understa... Read More about Women saving the world: Narratives of gender and development on global radio.

Narratives (2022)
Book Chapter

While many definitions of narrative exist, at its most basic, a narrative is a temporal sequence of events with a plot connecting those events. When we express our identity -- who we are -- we often do so in narrative form, telling a life story that... Read More about Narratives.

Re-evaluating the “traditional”: How the South Sudanese use established gender narratives to advance women's equality and empowerment (2020)
Journal Article

Women's equality and empowerment are international development priorities, but are difficult to achieve. Much gender and development literature blames entrenched “traditional” gender roles and norms, using them to explain slow progress towards gender... Read More about Re-evaluating the “traditional”: How the South Sudanese use established gender narratives to advance women's equality and empowerment.

How identities and discrimination catalyze global entrepreneurship (2016)
Book Chapter

In this book chapter, Lakshmi Ramarajan, Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School, and Emily LeRoux-Rutledge, PhD candidate at LSE, illustrate that when people resist discrimination by embracing their marginalized identities, it can spur them t... Read More about How identities and discrimination catalyze global entrepreneurship.

It's harder for boys? Children's representations of their HIV/AIDS-affected peers in Zimbabwe (2015)
Journal Article

This study examines whether children in rural Zimbabwe have differing representations of their HIV/AIDS-affected peers based on the gender of those peers. A group of 128 children (58 boys, 70 girls) aged 10–14 participated in a draw-and-write exercis... Read More about It's harder for boys? Children's representations of their HIV/AIDS-affected peers in Zimbabwe.

“Africa talks climate”: Comparing audience understandings of climate change in ten African countries (2012)
Book Chapter

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

The Case of Africa Talks Climate
Climate Change in Africa
The Role of the Media
Comparative Research: Challenges and Opportunities
Why Compare?
What to Compare?
How to Compare?
Common Framin... Read More about “Africa talks climate”: Comparing audience understandings of climate change in ten African countries.

Telling other people's stories: Cultural translation in drama for development (2011)
Book Chapter