Mercer, Claire
Dr Claire Mercer
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Experience keywords:
development; Africa; NGOs; African diaspora; Tanzania; civil society
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Claire Mercer's research has been concerned with the consequences of the pursuit of ‘development’ in sub-Saharan Africa. Over the last ten years she has undertaken research in Tanzania and, more recently, Cameroon, and has published on the changing character and work of associational life (NGOs, hometown associations); the geographies of governance with a focus on civil society and partnership; the role of the Internet in rural Africa; and postcolonial theories of development.
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Sectors and industries to which research relates:
Policy and Regulatory Bodies
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Countries and regions to which research relates:
Africa; Cameroon; Tanzania
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The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.
Mercer, Claire and Green, Maia (2013) Making civil society work: contracting, cosmopolitanism and community development in Tanzania. Geoforum, 45 pp. 106-115. ISSN 0016-7185 Mercer, Claire (2012) The privatisation of aid? Review of African political economy, 131 pp. 145-147. ISSN 0305-6244 Page, Ben and Mercer, Claire (2012) Why do people do stuff?: reconceptualizing remittance behaviour in diaspora-development research and policy. Progress in development studies, 12 (1). pp. 1-18. ISSN 1464-9934 Green, Maia and Mercer, Claire and Mesaki, Simeon (2012) Faith in forms: civil society evangelism and development in Tanzania. Development in practice, 22 (5-6). pp. 721-734. ISSN 0961-4524 Green, Maia and Kothari, Uma and Mercer, Claire and Mitlin, Diana (2012) Saving, spending, and future-making: time, discipline, and money in development. Environment and planning A, 44 (7). pp. 1641-1656. ISSN 0308-518X Bush, Ray and Mercer, Claire (2012) The revolution in permanence. Review of African political economy, 39 (133). pp. 401-407. ISSN 0305-6244 Bush, Ray and Martiniello, Giuliano and Mercer, Claire (2011) Humanitarian imperialism. Review of African political economy, 38 (129). pp. 357-365. ISSN 0305-6244 Jennings, Michael and Mercer, Claire (2011) Rehabilitating nationalisms: conviviality and national consciousness in postcolonial Tanzania. Politique Africaine, 121 pp. 87-106. ISSN 0244-7827 Page, Ben and Mercer, Claire (2010) Diasporas and development. In: Knott, Kim and McLoughlin, Sean, (eds.) Diasporas: concepts, intersections, identies. Zed Books , London, UK, pp. 102-106. ISBN 9781842779477 Harrison, Graham and Mercer, Claire (2010) Demanding development. Review of African political economy, 37 (124). pp. 119-121. ISSN 0305-6244 Mercer, Claire and Page, Ben (2010) African home associations in Britain: between political belonging and moral conviviality. African diaspora, 3 (1). pp. 110-130. ISSN 1872-5457 Green, Maia and Mercer, Claire and Mesaki, Simeon (2010) The development activities, values and performance of non-governmental and faith-based organizations in Magu and Newala districts, Tanzania. Religions and development working papers , 49-2010. Religions and Development Research Programme Consortium , Birmingham, UK Page, Ben and Mercer, Claire and Evans, Martin (2009) Introduction: African transnationalisms and diaspora networks. Global networks, 9 (2). pp. 137-140. ISSN 1470-2266 Mercer, Claire and Page, Ben and Evans, Martin (2009) Unsettling connections: transnational networks, development and African home associations. Global networks, 9 (2). pp. 141-161. ISSN 1470-2266 Mercer, Claire and Page, Ben and Evans, Martin (2008) Development and the African diaspora: place and the politics of home. Zed Books, London, UK. ISBN 9781842779002 Power, Marcus and Mohan, Giles and Mercer, Claire (2006) Postcolonial geographies of development: introduction. Singapore journal of tropical geography, 27 (3). pp. 231-234. ISSN 0129-7619 Mercer, Claire (2006) Telecentres and transformations: modernising Tanzania through the internet. African affairs, 105 (419). pp. 243-264. ISSN 1468-2621 Mercer, Claire (2004) Engineering civil society: information and communication technologies and NGOs in Tanzania. Review of African political economy, 31 (99). pp. 49-64. ISSN 0305-6244 Mercer, Claire and Mohan, Giles and Power, M (2003) Towards a critical political geography of African development. Geoforum, 34 (4). pp. 419-436. ISSN 0016-7185 Mercer, Claire (2003) Performing partnership: civil society and the illusions of good governance in Tanzania. Political Geography, 22 (7). pp. 741-763. ISSN 0962-6298 Kelsall, T and Mercer, Claire (2003) Empowering people? World vision & 'transformatory development' in Tanzania. Review of African political economy, 30 (96). pp. 293-304. ISSN 0305-6244 Mercer, Claire (2002) NGOs, civil society and democratization in the developing world: a critical review of the literature. Progress in development studies, 2 (1). pp. 5-22. ISSN 1464-9934 Mercer, Claire (2002) Deconstructing development: the discourse of maendeleo and the politics of women's participation on Mount Kilimanjaro. Development and change, 33 (1). pp. 101-127. ISSN 0012-155X Mercer, Claire (1999) Reconceptualising state-society relations in Tanzania: are NGOs 'making a difference'? Area, 31 (3). pp. 247-258. ISSN 1475-4762
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