
I am American with a US education, but I have worked for nearly two decades in Denmark. Trained as a political scientist from a top 10 American political science department, I have over 20 years of work on values and international politics of humanitarianism. My research draws on the disciplines of political science, anthropology, geography, social theory and media studies. I work unequally well in English, Danish, Italian and Swahili. From global population policy to Ben Affleck’s work in Congo, I have examined the relationships between global values and local practices of ‘humanitarianism’ in five research programs. I have spent a total of 51 months doing fieldwork in Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, and Democratic Republic of Congo), and have also been involved in research capacity building partnerships.
I have been a Visiting Professor at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University in the US (2017-18) and at the Department of Sociology and International Relations at the University of Trento in Italy (2014).
Lisa Ann Richey
Professor
Room: DH.V.2.66
Tel:+4538153253
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P R I M A R Y R E S E A R C H A R E A S
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International aid and humanitarian politics
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The aid business and commodification of causes
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New transnational actors and alliances in the Global South
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Development theories and representations
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Global health, gender and intersectionality
S E L E C T E D P U B L I C A T I O N S
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Richey, L.A. and A.C. Budabin (forthcoming 2021) Batman Saves the Congo: Business, Disruption and the Politics of Development, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (in press). -
Richey, L.A. and L. Chouliaraki, eds. (2018) Everyday Humanitarianism: Ethics, Affects and Practices. Special Issue (40,4) of New Political Science. -
Richey, L.A., ed. (2016) Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, Place and Power, New York and Milton Park, UK: Routledge. -
Richey, L.A. and S. Ponte, eds. (2014) New Actors and Alliances in Development Milton Park, UK: Routledge (Third Worlds book series). -
Richey, L.A. and S. Ponte (2011) Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
S U P E R V I S I O N
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Globalisering-Localisering
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Brand Aid: Cause-Related Marketing, Celebrity Humanitarianism and Ethical Consumption
L I N K S