Staff
Dr Amanda Berlan – Research Fellow
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Amanda Berlan has been a Research Fellow at the Brookes World Poverty Institute/Sustainable Consumption Institute since September 2009. She previously held a postdoctoral Fellowship at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford. This followed a BA in Modern Languages and an MPhil and DPhil in Social Anthropology also taken at the University of Oxford. Amanda Berlan's research interests include fair/ethical trade, corporate social responsibility, child labour, education and child rights, and other social issues in cocoa and other crops. Based on 15 months of fieldwork she completed a DPhil in Social Anthropology on child labour and education in cocoa in Ghana in 2005. Since then she has consolidated her expertise on cocoa and other crops in West Africa and completed a research project on cocoa in the Caribbean. She is currently working on a new project on agriculture in India. |
| Key activities at BWPI | |
| Current research areas | Ethical trade, cocoa and sustainability in West Africa, India and the Caribbean, poverty reduction, visual anthropology. |
| Selected publications and recent conference papers | 'Child labour in cocoa: whose voices prevail?' in the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy special edition on working children (2009). 'Pathways to International Development: Examining the Changing Roles of Co-operatives in Ethical Trade and Sustainable Agriculture', presented at the Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation conference in Ottawa, Canada (May 2009). 'The challenges of chocolate: an examination of the ethics of consuming and producing chocolate' presented at the European Association of Social Anthropologists conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia (August 2008). 'Making or Marketing a Difference? An Anthropological Examination of the Marketing of Fair Trade Cocoa form Ghana' in Research in Economic Anthropology (2008) Vol. 28. 'Child labour, education and child rights', in The Political Economy of New Slavery (2004), Van den Anker, C. (ed.), Palgrave. |
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