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About me
Presently holding a position as professor in International Development Studies at Roskilde University, I have a keen interest discussions about the state and politico-legal institutions, and the ways in which social action produces institutions of public authority. For close to two decades I have worked on land and politics issues in West Africa with a praticular interest in local politics and conflicts over natural resources. My main work has been conducted in Niger, Ghana and Burkina Faso. I am currently commencing research on similar issues in Laos (Working title: Fragments of Sovereignty: Property, Citizenship and Territory in Southeast Asia)
Main works include Law, Power, and Politics in Niger – Land Struggles and the Rural Code (1998), and Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa (2008). Moreover, I have edited and co-edited Twilight Institutions. Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa (2007), and Negotiating Property in Africa (2002). I have published in journals such as Africa, Development and Change, Journal of Modern African Studies, and World Development, among others.
I have been a Guest Fellow at London School of Economics, UK, Guest Senior Researcher at Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen, Denmark , and Guest lecturer at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (School of Advanced Social Studies) in Marseille, France.
Updated November 09
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