Rural Development - Global South
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Group members
- Flora Hajdu
- Kristina Marquardt
- Noemi Gonda
- Alin Kadfak
- Stephanie Leder Buttner
- Patrik Oskarsson
- Karolina Wallin Fernqvist
- Celina Marie Sculfort
- Karolin Andersson
- Binod Adhikari
- Gitta Shrestha
- Cristián Alarcón Ferrari
- Linley Chiwona Karltun
- Dil Khatri
- Gwendolyn Varley
- Johanna Bergman Lodin
- Malin Beckman
- Margarita Cuadra
- Linda Engström
- Linus Rosén
- Anamika Menon
- Patrick Mugiraneza
- Marie Christine Dusingize
- Alice Nayabo
- Deeksha Sharma
- Sarthak Shukla
- Theresé Engvall
Related researchprojects
- FoodAct: Action Research for Sustainable Food Security in times of Crisis - Agroecology in Sweden, Italy and Chile
- COPE
- Include2Restore
- JUSTPOWER
- AgroDrive - the transition to fossil-free energy in Sweden's agricultural and food systems, for improved competitiveness, higher resilience, and better climate
- GOAT POWER
- Sweatshops at Sea: Labour reform in the Thai seafood supply chain via hybrid global governance
- Who caught my fish?
- Towards land equality? Exploring how cancelled land deals affect smallholder farmers’ land access and livelihoods in Eastern Africa.
- ”We are planting trees in Africa”: Swedish discourses and local effects of carbon forestry projects in African localities
- Tracing the double negative: Marine ecologies and worker precarity in Southeast Asian trash fish supply chains
- Wild animals - biodiversity or pest? C reating local dialogues for dealing with farming-wildlife conflicts in rural Himalayan landscapes
- Revitalizing Community-managed Irrigation Systems in the Context of Out-migration in Nepal
- The Future of Agrarian Mountain Livelihoods (FAML): Youth Aspirations and Irrigation Modernisation in Nepal
- What is secondary about secondary forest? Building smallholder forest futures in Peru’s Amazonian frontier
- The end of coal and the future of land — Transformative mine closures for just and sustainable livelihoods in India
- Planning for a just coal energy transition from the ground up: Engaging coalfield communities in India for a fossilfree future
- Secondary forests, commodity frontiers and the micro-politics of land claims: Struggling to build smallholder forest futures
Related research topics
The subject Rural Development in the Global South critically examines ideas about development and their material effects across Asia, Africa, and South/Meso America. We draw on (feminist) political ecology, critical development and agrarian studies, political economy and governmentality to explore how development is globally interconnected, reliant on contested and finite resources, and producing emissions and waste at global scale. We challenge mainstream views, highlighting how prosperity in the Global North has long depended on the labor and natural resources of the Global South, leaving it in a position from which conventional development pathways are not just more difficult, but also environmentally unsustainable.
Our research aims to promote more just and sustainable pathways. In contexts where poverty and marginalization shape daily survival, we critically examine who benefits from policies and interventions. A post-colonial perspective, emphasizing a social relational and power-imbued analysis underpins our work.
We prioritize long-term, collaborative field engagements and building relationships with Global South institutions and actors, guided by decolonial principles. Our methods are mainly qualitative, ethnographic and participatory, but range from surveys to co-creative approaches and use stakeholder and policy workshops for scaling, impact and outreach. We study diverse natural resource sectors – agriculture, forestry, fisheries, mining, and energy – from a multitude of perspectives.
Introducing the Rural Development in the Global South Research Group folder (PDF)