Presentations and conference papers
Land and Food. Lecture delivered at the Interdisciplinary Autumn Research School ‘Rethinking Extractivist Capitalism’, 30 Oct. 2021, University of Bremen and online.
The State Formation Effects of Social Protection: Some Findings from Zambia. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Southern African Social Protection Experts Network (SASPEN), Johannesburg, 5-6 Oct. 2021.
Representation without a state: studying the long-term political consequences of neoliberalism in the countryside. Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference 2021, 30 Aug. – 03 Sept. 2021, online.
Welfare, labour and taxation: Redistribution during globalisation. Panel organised and chaired with Klaus Schlichte (University of Bremen); took place at the ECPR General Conference 2021, 30 Aug. – 03 Sept. 2021, online.
Globalization and Social Questions in the Countryside. Panel organised and chaired with Klaus Schlichte (University of Bremen); took place at the ECPR General Conference 2021, 30 Aug. – 03 Sept. 2021, online.
Social Policy and State Formation: Comparative insights from the Social Cash Transfer and ‘FISP’ in Zambia. Paper presented at the 22nd Biennial Conference of the International Consortium for Social Development, University of Johannesburg, 13-16 July 2021, online.
How Evidence-based Policymaking forms the State – Some Insights from Social Protection Programmes in Zambia. Paper presented at the European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), 30 June – 02 July 2021, online.
Are we so strange after all? Self-Reflexivity in Global Social Policy. Workshop organised together with John Berten (University of Tübingen); European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), 30 June – 02 July 2021, online.
State Formation and Social Policy in Zambia. Invited talk at the Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town, online, 22 June 2021.
How social protection makes the state - insights from Zambia. Invited talk at the AEGIS Collaborative Research Group African Politics and International Relations, #Exchange event series, online, 16 June 2021.
Knowing and unknowing the countryside – epistemological implications of rural social policy in Zambia. Invited talk at the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (gloknos), Cambridge, online, 03 June 2021.
Representation without a state: studying the long-term political consequences of neoliberalism in the countryside, paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, online, 04/2021.
The ‘Double Translation’ of Social Protection: The role of agents and coercive learning in social policy diffusion in Sub-Saharan Africa, paper presented at the International Conference on Policy Diffusion and Development Cooperation (ICPDDC), online, 02/2021, with Stephen Devereux (IDS).
Constructing history: The multiple narratives about the post-independence Zambian state in social policy, paper presented in pre-workshop of the 2021 EWIS workshop 'Self-reflexivity in Global Social and Development Policy', online, 07/2020.
Government by community and the effects on the state: Findings from social policy in Zambia, paper presented in the Internationalised Politics Colloquium, online, 06/2020.
The legacy of economic dualism and the de-politicisation of social policy in Zambia, paper presented in InIIS-BIGSSS Colloquium, University of Bremen, 11/2019.
Studying welfare states – a case for re-politicising social policy research on Africa, paper presented at NordWel Summer School, Bremen, 08/2019.
Social Policy and Statehood in Zambia, presentation in the qualitative social policy colloquium, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, 03/2019.
Activation or Protection? Social Policy Dynamics under a Development Imperative – the Zambian Case, paper presented in InIIS-BIGSSS Colloquium, University of Bremen, 12/2018.
Social Policy and Statehood in Zambia, paper presented at the annual conference of the Development Studies Association (DSA), Manchester, 06/2018.
Social Policy and Statehood in Zambia, paper presented in Research Class/Forschungswerkstatt BGHS Global Social Policy, University of Bielefeld, 06/2018
How is the Zambian state formed in social policy? My PhD project with some tentative conclusions, presentation at Southern African Institute for Policy and Research, Lusaka, Zambia, 03/2018.
Getting to know the poor: why evidence matters in (global) social policy in Zambia, paper presented at IB Sektionstagung of the Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW), University of Bremen, 10/2017.
The State in Social Policy in Zambia – Methods and State of the Project, paper presented in InIIS-BIGSSS Colloquium, University of Bremen, 01/2017.
Potentials and Challenges of the use of ethnographic methods in an IR project, paper presented at Indemini Summer School, Indemini, Switzerland, 08/2016.
Can Social Protection be Transformative? Findings from Zambia, presentation at the Annual Conference of the Southern African Social Protection Experts Network (SASPEN), Johannesburg, South Africa, 10/2015.
The power of international organisations: how can pragmatist thought shed light on the agency of individuals within the structures of the peace-building regime?, paper presented at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for Peace and Conflict Studies and the ECPR standing group on Critical Peace and Conflict Studies, Manchester, UK, 09/2013.