Staff
Dr Dennis Rodgers - Senior Research Fellow
Dr Dennis Rodgers
|
Dennis Rodgers is a social anthropologist by training, with a BA and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, as well as a postgraduate degree from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to joining BWPI, he was lecturer at the London School of Economics, in development studies (2000-05), and urban development (2005-07). He has also worked as a consultant for various international and national organisations, and was a member of a Nicaraguan youth gang for a year, as well as manager of a market stall selling rice and beans in one of Managua’s markets for six months. Dennis was born in Thailand, and holds French, British and Swiss citizenship. He is currently also a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Crisis States Research Centre at the London School of Economics, and Associate Editor of the European Journal of Development Research. |
| Current research areas | Violence (including, in particular, gangs), urban poverty, inequality, urban governance, the politics of planning, qualitative research methods, the social construction of development knowledge. |
| Recent publications | Contingent democratisation? The rise and fall of participatory budgeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina", Journal of Latin American Studies, 42(1), in press (February 2010). See full list of publications on University publications database . |
| Books | (edited with G.A. Jones), Youth Violence in Latin America: Gangs and Juvenile Justice in Perspective. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. (with J. L. Rocha), Bróderes Descobijados y Vagos Alucinados: Una Década con las Pandillas Nicaragüenses 1997-2007, Managua: Envio, 2008. English electronic version: Gangs of Nicaragua, BWPI, University of Manchester, 2008. |
| Book chapters | "Les bandes comme stratégie de « survie sociale » au Nicaragua", in G. Bataillon and D. Merklen (eds.), L’Expérience des Situations-Limites, Paris: Karthala, 2009. (with G. A. Jones), “Introduction: Youth violence in Latin America – An overview and agenda for research”, in G. A. Jones and D. Rodgers (eds.), Youth Violence in Latin America: Gangs and Juvenile Justice in Perspective, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. (with S. Jensen), “Revolutionaries, barbarians, or war machines? Gangs in Nicaragua and South Africa”, in C. Leys and L. Panitch (eds.), Socialist Register 2009: Violence Today – Actually Existing Barbarism, London: Merlin Press, 2008. “Gangs, violence, and asset-building”, in C. Moser (ed.), Reducing Global Poverty: The Case for Asset Accumulation, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2007. |
| Journal articles | “Slum wars of the 21st century: Gangs, Mano Dura, and the new urban geography of conflict in Central America”, Development and Change, 40(5): 949-976, 2009. (with O. Jütersonke and R. Muggah), “Gangs, Urban Violence, and Security Interventions in Central America”, Security Dialogue, 40(4-5): 373-397, 2009. (with D. Lewis and M. Woolcock), 'The fiction of development: Literary representation as a source of authoritative knowledge', Journal of Development Studies, 44(2): 187-205, 2008. Click here to download an earlier version of this paper (pdf, 125 kB). 'A symptom called Managua', New Left Review, 49 (January-February): 103-120, 2008. Click here to download this paper (pdf, 1.2 MB). |
| Other resources | Dennis’ Crisis States Programme research on Argentina. Video-recording of presentation from 2008 conference on the Cities of Extremes, organised by the Institute of Social Studies Journal Development & Change. 2009 interview for Swiss Television on the global proliferation of slums. Link to short CV |
| Teaching | IDPM 60512 Poverty, Livelihoods, and Poverty Reduction in Context |
| Recommended links |
The University of Manchester is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.