Tom Goodfellow

Teaching Fellow, DV400

Department of International Development (ID)

Biography

Tom Goodfellow joined the Department of International Development in 2007 as PhD student and became an LSE Fellow in January 2011. His thesis explores state effectiveness in Africa through the lens of urban development and state-society relations at the city level. Employing a comparative case study framework, it analyses the politics behind the sharply contrasting ways in which the governments of Rwanda and Uganda are managing rapid urban growth in their respective capital cities, Kigali and Kampala.

Alongside his PhD, from 2008-11 he was a Research Associate with Oxfam GB as part of an ESRC collaborative research studentship, through which he advised Oxfam on the development of their Global Urban Strategy and Sustainable Livelihoods Framework. He also worked as Communications and Editorial officer for the LSE's Crisis States Research Centre (funded by DfID) from 2007-8, after which he became a Research Associate of the Centre, helping develop their work on cities and conflict in fragile states. He has a Masters in International Relations (LSE) and a degree in Social and Political Sciences (Cambridge).

Research interests

State effectiveness, particularly in Africa;
the politics of urban informal economies;
urban poverty and livelihoods;
the relationship between violent conflict and development;
comparative politics;
institutional continuity and change;
decentralisation and governance in fragile situations;
state-society relations.

Edited journal issues

'Cities and Conflict in Fragile States' Urban Studies (forthcoming Special Issue, co-edited with Jo Beall and Dennis Rodgers; date tbc)
'Terrorism and Development'. 2006. Journal of International Development 18(1), (Policy Arena, co-edited with Jo Beall and James Putzel)

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

'Cities and Conflict in Fragile States: an Overview', Urban Studies (Introductory article in forthcoming Special Issue, with Jo Beall and Dennis Rodgers; accepted with revisions)
'Presidential intervention and the changing 'politics of survival' in Kampala's informal economy', Cities, Forthcoming 2012. (With Kristof Titeca; accepted with revisions)
'On the Discourse of Terrorism, Security and Development'. 2006. Journal of International Development, 18(1), pp. 51-67 (with Jo Beall and James Putzel)

Peer-reviewed book chapters and working papers

'Urban planning in Africa and the politics of implementation: Contrasting patterns of state intervention in Kampala and Kigali.' Forthcoming 2012. in V. Arlt, E. Macamo and B. Obrist (eds) Living the City . Zürich: Lit Verlag
'The institutionalisation of 'noise' and 'silence' in urban politics: case studies from East Africa'. 2011. Oxford Department of International Development Working Paper QEHSWP188
'Cities, conflict and state fragility'. 2011. Crisis States Research Centre, Working Paper No. 85.2, London School of Economics and Political Science (with Jo Beall and Dennis Rodgers)
'The bastard child of nobody'? Anti-planning and the institutional crisis in contemporary Kampala'. 2010. Crisis States Research Centre Working Paper 67.2, London School of Economics

Blogs

'Urban planning through the barrel of a gun', Africa at LSE blog, 25 Jan 2012
'Whatever happened to the 'African Spring'?, Africa at LSE blog, 13 July 2011

Selected Presentations

Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago: 'Taming the boda-bodas: state effectiveness and urban informal transport in East Africa', April 2012
Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago: 'Managing rapid urbanization in the wake of genocide: conflict dynamics and the transformation of Kigali after 1994' (with Alyson Smith), April 2012
Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Belfast: 'Normalising 'noise': law and the public transcript of protest in Kampala, Uganda', April 2012
Development Planning Unit, University College London: 'Urban co-operatives, livelihoods and security in Kigali, Rwanda'. July 2011
Oxford University Department of International Development: 'The institutionalisation of 'noise' and 'silence' in urban politics: case studies from East Africa'. June 2011
University of Basel (AEGIS Conference): 'The politics of urban planning in East Africa: contrasting strategies of 'invention' and intervention in Kampala and Kigali', October 2010
Oxford University (African Studies Association Conference): 'From strongest ally to fiercest rival? The fallout between the Museveni government and the Buganda Kingdom', Sep 2010
Crisis States Research Centre (London School of Economics and Political Science): 'Cities, conflict and state fragility', September 2010 and May 2010
UN-HABITAT Headquarters, Nairobi: 'Cities and conflict', June 2010
London School of Economics, Department of International Development: 'State effectiveness and the politics of urban development in East Africa', May 2010

Contact details

Email: t.a.goodfellow@lse.ac.uk
Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 6844
Department of International Development, LSE, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE