Fairtrade - narratives, facts, and agricultural wage workers: findings from research in Ethiopia and Uganda
Development Studies
Little Hall Lecture Series
Wednesday 19 November 2014
4- 5.30pm
Little Hall
Sidgwick Site
between lecture block A and the Faculty of Classics
Guest speaker
Professor Christopher Cramer
Title
Fairtrade - narratives, facts, and agricultural wage workers: findings from research in Ethiopia and Uganda
All welcome
Christopher Cramer is Professor of the Political Economy of Development at SOAS, University of London, where he mainly teaches courses on development economics and on the political economy of violent conflict and war to peace transitions. His main fieldwork experience is in sub-Saharan Africa, where among other things he has carried out research on rural labour markets, on privatisation, and on cashew nut processing. His book, Civil War is Not a Stupid Thing: Accounting for Violence in Developing Countries (London: C.Hurst, 2006), won the Edgar Graham Prize. Recent publications, written with colleagues, include "How to do (and how not to do) fieldwork on Fairtrade and rural poverty', in the Canadian Journal of Development Studies (2014) and "Fairtrade Cooperatives in Ethiopia and Uganda: Uncensored" (Review of African Political Economy, published online probably November 2014). He is also Vice-Chair of the Royal African Society and Chair of the Scientific Committee of the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE).