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Biography Deborah Bryceson holds bachelor and master degrees in geography from the University of Dar es Salaam and a DPhil (sociology) from Oxford University. She began her career as a researcher at the Bureau of Resource Assessment and Land Use Planning at the University of Dar es Salaam. Thereafter she taught development studies at the Architectural Association, London. She worked at the Afrika-studiecentrum at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands between 1992 and 2005. After moving back to the United Kingdom, she taught at the University of Birmingham and has been involved in research collaboration with the Geography Institute at the University of Copenhagen as well as the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden. She is a Principal at The Policy Practice and a Research Associate at the African Studies Centre and the International Gender Studies Centre at Oxford University. She has done research consultancies with a number of international agencies including: the International Labour Office, Food and Agriculture Organization, World Bank, UNCTAD, UNRISD, DfID, DANIDA, CARE International and the Tanzanian government. She joined the University of Glasgow in 2009. Research interests Her long-standing interest in rural and urban areas has involved extensive research into the interaction of livelihood, mobility and settlement in East Africa and elsewhere on the African continent. Adopting an inter-institutional perspective, her analyses of people's work and leisure time pursuits trace how economic transactions, spatial decision-making and social relations are embedded in the interaction of
households, states, markets and community networks. Her early work spanned the topics of African food security, staple food markets, agricultural policy, rural transport and gender divisions of labour. During the 1990s, she pioneered the comparative study of deagrarianization processes in Africa, focussing on rural income diversification and associated household and community responses. More recently, she has concentrated her research on urban economies, urban growth and mobility patterns. Her current research topics are: 1) the interaction between mining and urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa and 2) the influence of Swahili creole culture in East African urban history and politics. Recent publications Bryceson, D., J.B. Jonsson and R. Sherrington, 2010, 'Miners’ Magic: Artisanal Mining, the Albino Fetish and Murder in Tanzania’, Journal of Modern African Studies, 48(3), 353-82. doi:10.1017/S0022278X10000303 >> Bryceson, D.F. 2009. ‘Dar es Salaam: Porto de Paz’. 2009. in Aliança de Civilizações: Um Caminho Possível? Janus – Portugal No Mundo - Yearbook of International Relations. Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Lisbon, 196. Bryceson, D.F. 2010. ‘Between Moral Economy and Civil Society: Professional Ethics Bridging Familial Solidarity and Civic Morals’, in Bryceson, D.F. (ed.) How Africa Works: Occupational Change, Identity and Morality. London: Practical Action Publishers, 3-26.
Bryceson, D.F. and J.B. Jønsson 2010, ‘Gold Digging Careers in Rural Africa: Small-Scale Miners’ Livelihood Choices’, World Development. v.38 (3), 379-92. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.09.003 >> Bryceson, D.F. in press. ‘Who Cares? Family and Lineage Coherence and Caring Capacity during Rural Malawi’s AIDS Crisis’, in Bertram, H. (ed.) Family, Ties and Care. Berlin: Barbara Budrich Publisher. Bryceson, D.F. 2011. Birth of a Market Town in Tanzania: Towards Narrative Studies of Urban Africa. Journal of Eastern African Studies 5(2), 274-293. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2011.571389. >> Bryceson, D.F. 2010. ‘Africa at Work: Transforming Occupational Identity and Morality’, in Bryceson, D.F. (ed.) How Africa Works: Occupational Change, Identity and Morality in Africa. London: Practical Action Publishers, 3-26. Bryceson, D.F. 2010. ‘The Proletarianization of Women in Tanzania’, in Turshen, M. (ed.) African Women: A Political Economy London: Palgrave Macmillan, 53-69. Bryceson, D.F. 2009. ‘Roadmapping Development and Poverty Alleviation: Transport and the Millennium Development Goals in Africa’ 2009. in Greico, M., D. Bryceson, T. McCray, M. Ndulo, and G. Porter (eds), Transport and the Millennium Development Goals, IAD Cornell series, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 1-24. Bryceson, D.F. 2009. ‘Sub-Saharan Africa’s Vanishing Peasantries and the Specter of a Global Food Crisis’. Monthly Review. July-August, 48-62. Bryceson, D.F. 2009. ‘The Urban Melting Pot in East Africa: Ethnicity and Urban Growth in Kampala and Dar es Salaam’ 2009. in Locatelli, F. and P. Nugent and (eds), African Cities: Competing Claims on Urban Space. Leiden, Brill, 242-260. Bryceson, D.F. 2010. ‘Dar es Salaam as a “Harbour of Peace” in East Africa: Tracing the Role of Creolized Urban Ethnicity in Nation-State Formation’. in Beall, J., B. Guha-Khasnobis and R. Kanbur (eds), Urbanization and Development: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 243-58. Bryceson, D.F. and R. Mwaipopo. 2009. ‘Rural-Urban Transitions in Northwestern Tanzania’s Mining Frontier’ (with Rosemarie Mwaipopo), in Agergaard, J., N. Fold and K. Gough (eds). 2009. Rural Urban Dynamics: Livelihoods, Mobility and Markets in African and Asian Frontiers. London, Routledge, 158-174.
Bryceson, D.F., K. Gough, J. Rigg and J. Agergaard. 2009. ‘World Bank Urban Geography: Critical Commentary on the World Development Report 2009 “Reshaping Economic Geography”’, 2009. Urban Studies 46(4), 723-38. Jønsson, J-B & D.F Bryceson. 2009. ‘Rushing for Gold: Mobility and Mining Outcomes of Small-scale Miners in East Africa’, Development and Change, 40 (2), 249-279. Rigg, J., A. Bebbington, K. Gough, D.F. Bryceson, J. Agergaard, and N. Fold. 2009. ‘The World Development Report 2009 “reshapes economic geography”: geographical reflections’. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 34, 1-9 doi:10.1177/0042098009102371 >> Bryceson, D.F. and D. Potts (eds). 2006. African Urban Economies: Viability, Vitality or Vitiation? (ed.) 2006. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 353 pp. View abstract >> Recent research grants Bryceson, D.F. and MacKinnon, D. 2010-2013. Urban growth and poverty in mining Africa, £648,894 (ESRC/DfID 167-25-0488. Co-Investigators: C.U. Rodrigues (African Studies Centre Lisbon), K. Gough (Loughborough University). Current postgraduate students
Patricia Campbell (PhD candidate)
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