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Aaron deGrassi Lindsey Dillon Rosalind Fredericks
Juan DeLara Sapana Doshi Andrew Friedman
Jennifer Devine

Aaron deGrassi

 Personal Interests: Biking, Cooking, Gardening, Music, Reading, Surfing

Selected Publications:

(forthcoming) ‘Envisioning Futures of African Agriculture: Power, Representation, and Socially Constituted Time,’ Progress in Development Studies.

(2005) Special Issue: New Directions for African Agriculture, IDS Bulletin 36 (2), co-edited with Ian Scoones, Stephen Devereux, and Lawrence Haddad.

(2005) ‘Transport, Poverty, and Agrarian Change in Africa: Models, Mechanisms and New Ways Forward,’ IDS Bulletin 36 (2): 52-57.

(2004) Mozambique - Food Security Options, London: Overseas Development Institute, Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa, with Steve Wiggins.

(2003) ‘(Mis)Understanding Change in Agro-Environmental Technology in Africa: Charting and Refuting the Myth of Population-Induced Breakdown,’ in T. Zeleza and I. Kakoma (eds), In Search of Modernity: Science and Technology in Africa, Trenton: Africa World Press, 473-505.

(2003) ‘Constructing Subsidiarity, Consolidating Hegemony: Political Economy and Agro-Ecological Processes in Ghanaian Forestry,’ Environmental Governance in Africa Working Paper No. 13, Washington, DC: World Resources Institute.

Websites of Interest:
www.allafrica.com
www.live365.com
www.africaaction.org
www.donorplatform.org
E-mail: degrassi@ocf.berkeley.edu
www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~degrassi/
BA 2000 (Development Studies) UC Berkeley
MPhil 2004 (Development Studies)University of Sussex, Brighton
Research Interests: I am interested in various aspects of African rural development. My experience began from understanding the details of agricultural production in relation with broader contexts, and have encompassed a range of topics and locales.
Keywords: agro-ecology, biotechnology, bridging academic divides, culture, decentralization, farmer organizations, gender, institutional ethnography, interdisciplinarity, land, marketing, new institutional economics, policy, research, sharecropping, technology, transport.
Regional Focus: Africa, Angola, Burkina Faso, Ghana, India, Mozambique

Juan DeLara

 Personal Interests:

Websites of Interest:
www.saltonsea.ca.gov/

www.ca.rand.org/stats/economics/cityconst.html - great city-level data on CA housing building permits
E-mail: jdelara@berkeley.edu
BA 1996 (Sociology and Labor Studies) Pitzer College, Claremont
MA 2003 (Urban Planning) UC Los Angeles
Research Interests: I'm particularly interested in the social relations of spatial production. How do we understand the complex relationships between culture, economics and politics that shape the particular geographies of everyday life? My research on Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley is focused on how cultural ideas of leisure and consumption are tied to the political economy of urbanization and development.

My interests also include: the social production of space, the geography of capitalist development, urbanization, the intersection between culture and political economy, the politics of landscape production, regional border economies, the relationship between city and country, and the role of nature in capitalist accumulation.
Regional Focus: California and the American West, The Los Angeles Metropolis, and the U.S./Mexican border

Jennifer Devine

 Publications
Devine, J. (2006) “Hardworking Newcomers and Generations of Poverty: Poverty Discourse in Central Washington State” Antipode 38 (5) p. 952-976.

Beyers, W., Devine, J., Weatherford, S. and A. Hagopian (2007). Economic Impact Assessment of Global Health on Washington State’s Economy. University of Washington Office of Global Affairs. Available online as pdf

Personal Interests: writing, traveling, hiking, cycling, skiing, volleyball, exploring Northern California
Websites of interest:
www.globalwa.org
www.visitguatemala.com
www.cawn.org
www.womenanddemocracy.org
E-mail: jendevine@berkeley.edu
BA 2004 (Geography and International Studies) University of Washington
MS 2005 (Gender, Development and Globalization) London School of Economics
MS 2006 (Human Geography Research) London School of Economics
Research Interests: Broadly speaking, my current research interests focus on contemporary dynamics and trajectories of social, political and economic “development” in Guatemala and Central America. These interests include: tourism, neo-liberalism, multiculturalism, the social production of difference, labor market experiences and discrimination, the Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) and the politics of research and knowledge production.
Regional Focus: Guatemala, Central America, the American Northwest, London

Lindsey Dillon

 Personal Interests: Hiking, gardening, used bookstores and crossword puzzles and welfare policies.

Websites of interest:
Sanfranmag.com - a story
hunterspointshipyard.com
sfgate.com - a story about Hunters Point
E-mail: lindseydillon@berkeley.edu
BA 2003 (Political Science) Oberlin College
Research Interests: I’m interested in urbanization in US cities, particularly the connections between multinational capital and urban redevelopment projects. What kind of politics, economics, and culture/aesthetics are involved in these redeveloped areas? I want to investigate these processes in the current redevelopment of the Bayview/Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco, paying particular attention to community activism and the involvement of community members or organizations in redevelopment decision-making. What is the process by which Bayview/Hunters Point gets redeveloped, and what is the physical and social geography that results from this process? This research interest comes from broader concerns about economic inequality, neoliberal governance, and the decline of social welfare policies.
Regional Focus: US urban areas

Sapana Doshi

 Personal Interests: When I am “in the field,” my research allows me to indulge in something I love to do anyway: walk, interact and feel the ins and outs and many characters of cities that move me. Before grad school, I spent several years living and working in Northeastern Brazil and New York City, the places closest to my heart along with Bombay. I’ve also been known to dabble in a bit of community theatre in the Bay Area when time permits. Wherever I am, I count on dance, good food and long conversations with the inspiring people that are my best friends and colleagues.
E-mail: sdoshi@berkeley.edu
BA 1997 (Economics) Barnard College, Columbia Univ., NYC
Research Interests: Most broadly I study the nexus of cultural politics and political economy in global cities of the developing world. My current research focuses on the local and global agents and processes of slum and infrastructure redevelopment in Mumbai (Bombay). I am especially interested in the embodied experience of displacement and resettlement due to redevelopment projects in informal settlements; specifically I am grappling with the emerging role that gender and identity plays in struggles over claiming and transforming urban space.
Regional Focus: South Asia (Possible later comparative work in Brazil)

Rosalind Fredericks

 Personal Interests: I require a delicate balance of concrete/ biomass, body/ brain to thrive. Some activities which help: gardening, biking, organizing house music dance parties (www.stompy.com, www.3degreesglobal.com), wilderness adventures, hangliding, African cinema, running, modern dance, and my newest interest: climbing.

E-mail: rozyfredericks@berkeley.edu
BS 2000 (Environmental Science) Brown University
MSc 2003 (Environment and Development) London School of Economics and Political Science
Research Interests: Most broadly, I am interested in the social and environmental sustainability of cities&Mac247;those infinitely complex and intriguing spaces of social organization which increasingly dominate our world. Although I have extensive experience working with U.S. local governments at the forefront of alternative urban development strategies (see www.ICLEI.org), my current research interests are focused on questions related to the explosive growth of cities in sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, I am looking at participatory strategies for public service provision in Senegal. My current work investigates the cultural politics surrounding women&Mac226;s participation in community-based waste and sanitation projects in Dakar, paying particular attention to the role of Islam, the local State, and gender in shaping local political struggles and their implications for different community members. My work remains critical of the larger forces shaping the contemporary „development‰ agenda in Africa and aims to lend insight into place, gender, and state-civil society relations as well as the specific challenges to African urban governance under neoliberal globalization.

Regional Focus: Senegal, West Africa

Andrew Friedman

 Personal Interests:
E-mail: andfried@berkeley.edu
BA 2005 (Geography and Philosophy), UC Berkeley
Research Interests: I am researching how aerosol pollution and global warming affect the position of the Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone, which strongly impacts rainfall in Northeast Brazil, the Caribbean, and the Sahel.
Regional Focus:

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