Development and Change Book Series

As a journal, Development and Change distinguishes itself by its multidisciplinary approach and its breadth of coverage, publishing articles on a wide spectrum of development issues. Accommodating a deeper analysis and a more concentrated focus, it also publishes regular special issues on selected themes. Development and Change and Wiley Blackwell collaborate to produce these themed issues as a series of books, with the aim of bringing these pertinent resources to a wider audience.

Titles in the series include:

Rule and Rupture: State Formation through the Production of Property and Citizenship

Edited by Christian Lund and Michael Eilenberg

Transition and Justice: Negotiating the Terms of New Beginnings in Africa

Edited by Gerhard Anders and Olaf Zenker

Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land

Edited by Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras, Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White

Seen, Heard and Counted: Rethinking Care in a Development Context

Edited by Shahra Razavi

Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa

Edited by Tobias Hagmann and Didier Péclard

The Politics of Possession: Property, Authority, and Access to Natural Resources

Edited by Thomas Sikor and Christian Lund

Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development

Edited by Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison and Ann Whitehead

Twilight Institutions: Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa

Edited by Christian Lund

China's Limits to Growth: Greening State and Society

Edited by Peter Ho and Eduard B. Vermeer

Catalysing Development? A Debate on Aid

Jan Pronk et al.

State Failure, Collapse and Reconstruction

Edited by Jennifer Milliken

Forests: Nature, People, Power

Edited by Martin Doornbos, Ashwani Saith and Ben White

Gendered Poverty and Well-being

Edited by Shahra Razavi

Globalization and Identity

Edited by Birgit Meyer and Peter Geschiere

Social Futures, Global Visions

Edited by Cynthia Hewitt de Alcantara

An Ansoms (e-mail: an.ansoms@uclouvain.be) is assistant professor in Development Studies at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. She is involved in research on rural development in land-scarce (post-)conflict environments, and particularly focuses on the Great Lakes Region in Africa. She has co-edited two books, Natural Resources and Local Livelihoods in the Great Lakes Region: A Political Economy Perspective (Palgrave, 2011) and Emotional and Ethical Challenges for Field Research in Africa: The Story Behind the Findings (Palgrave, 2013).

Adam Baczko (e-mail: adam.baczko@gmail.com) is a PhD student in political science at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and a Junior Research Fellow at the ERC-funded programme ‘Social Dynamics of Civil War’ at Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France. His research focuses on the Taliban system of justice since 2001. With Arthur Quesnay and Gilles Dorronsoro, he co-authored Syrie, Anatomie d'une guerre civile (CNRS Editions, 2016).

Sarah Byrne (corresponding author; e-mail: sarah.byrne@geo.uzh.ch) is Associate Researcher in Political Geography at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. This article stems from her recently completed PhD thesis entitled ‘Becoming a Contender: Legitimacy, Authority and the Power of Making Do in Nepal's Permanent Transition’. She is currently working as a Governance Advisor with Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation.

Verónica Calvo (e-mail: veronica.calvovalenzuela@sciencespo.fr) is a PhD candidate in political science at CERI, Paris, France. Her areas of specialization are comparative political sociology and political anthropology. Her research field concerns forms of subjectivation related to the adoption of new indigenous rights in contemporary Bolivia.

Giuseppe Cioffo (corresponding author; e-mail: giuseppe.cioffo@gmail.com) is a PhD candidate at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) where he studies processes of agrarian modernization in Rwanda. He is interested in the social and environmental dynamics linked to Green Revolution models, as well as small family farming and agrarian change in developing countries.

Erin Collins (e-mail: ecollins@american.edu) is Assistant Professor of Global Urban Studies in the School of International Service at American University, Washington DC, USA. Her research interests include the political economy and cultural politics of Southeast Asian cities and their manifold transformations.

Michael Eilenberg (e-mail: etnome@cas.au.dk) is Associate Professor in Anthropology at Aarhus University, Denmark. His work on state formation, sovereignty, autonomy and agrarian expansion in frontier regions of Southeast Asia has appeared in various book chapters and journals such as Journal of Peasant Studies, Modern Asian Studies and Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Society. His book At the Edges of States (KITLV Press and Brill Academic Publishers, 2012) deals with the dynamics of state formation in the borderlands of Indonesia and Malaysia.

Jacobo Grajales (e-mail: jacobo.grajaleslopez@univ-lille2.fr) is Associate Professor of political science at the Centre for European Research on Administration, Politics and Society, University of Lille, France. He is the author of Gouverner dans la violence: le paramilitarisme en Colombie [Governing in the Midst of Violence: Paramilitary Politics in Colombia] (Karthala, 2016), as well as several articles on the agrarian dimension of the Colombian conflict published by Development and Change and The Journal of Peasant Studies. His current research, focused on the link between post-conflict situations and the political economy of rural land, has led him to undertake comparative field research in Colombia and Côte d'Ivoire.

Markus Virgil Hoehne (e-mail: markus.hoehne@uni-leipzig.de) is Lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. He works on conflict, identity, state formation, borderlands, transitional justice and forensic anthropology in Somalia. Currently he is preparing for new research in Peru.

Kasper Hoffmann (corresponding author; e-mail: kh@ifro.ku.dk) is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO) at Copenhagen University, Denmark. He is also affiliated with the Conflict Research Group (CRG) at Ghent University, Belgium. His research focuses on the constitution of political and legal identities, rebel governance, the production of political space, and land conflicts and governance, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Benedikt Korf is Associate Professor in Political Geography at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His most recent book is Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque: A Collaborative Ethnography of War and Peace, co-authored with Jonathan Spencer, Jonathan Goodhand, Shahul Hasbullah, Bart Klem and Tudor Silva (Polity, 2015).

Christian Lund is Professor at the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen (clund@ifro.ku.dk). He is the author of Law, Power and Politics in Niger. Land Struggles and the Rural Code (Lit Verlag/Transaction Publishers) and Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa (Cambridge University Press). He currently works on local politics, property and citizenship in Indonesia.

Gauthier Marchais is a Research Fellow in the Conflict and Violence Research Cluster at the Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. He recently completed a PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science on the dynamics of participation in armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and has been involved in several research projects focused on the region.

Andrea J. Nightingale is Chair of Rural Development in the Global South at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). Her research looks at political violence in climate change adaptation programmes. Her forthcoming textbook is entitled Environment and Sustainability in a Globalizing World (Routledge, 2017).

Noer Fauzi Rachman (e-mail: noerfauziberkeley@gmail.com) is Senior Researcher at Sajogyo Institute, the Indonesian Center for Agrarian and Rural Studies, Bogor, Indonesia. His latest book in Bahasa Indonesia is Land Reform dan Gerakan Agraria Indonesia (Insist Press, 2016), which is a translation of his dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley, ‘The Resurgence of Land Reform Policy and Agrarian Movements in Indonesia’. He currently works on agrarian reform policy processes at the national level in Indonesia.

Koen Vlassenroot is Professor of Political Sciences and the director of the Conflict Research Group (CRG) at Ghent University, Belgium. He conducts research on armed groups, conflict and governance in Central Africa, with a particular focus on eastern Congo. He is currently one of the research directors of the DfID-funded Justice and Security Research Programme.