Publications

2026. Global Lefts and Global Rights in Global Politics.
In The Global Left in a Multipolar World: Towards a Planetary Politics of Justice and Survival, edited by Dena Freeman. London: Routledge.

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2025. The Counter-Hegemonic Internationalism of Josué de Castro: A Radical Brazilian in the Mid-Twentieth Century World Government Movement.

History, 110, 393: 641-661. Download

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2025. The Globalization Project of the Group of 77 (G77). 

In The Handbook of the Globalization Projects of Regional Organizations, edited by Ulf Engel, Jens Herpolsheimer and Frank Mattheis. Leiden: Brill.

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2024. Sovereignty, Human Rights and the Regulation of Transnational Corporations: A Critical Spatial Analysis of Civil Society Proposals for a Binding Treaty. 

Globalizations, 1–19. Download

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2022. Entangled Histories of ‘Development’, ‘development’ and ‘Christian development’. 

In Perspectives on the History of Global Development, edited by Iris Borowy, Corinna Unger, Nicholas Ferns, and Jack Loveridge. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, pp. 59-80.

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2020. Development as Transformation: Tearfund and the New Evangelical Approach to Holistic Change. 

In Does Religion Make a Difference? Religious NGOs in International Development Collaboration, edited by Andreas Heuser and Jens Koehrsen. Basel: Nomos and Pano.

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2020. Mission, Development and ‘Reverse Mission’ in Europe-Africa Religious Relations. 

In Africa-Europe Relationship: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective, edited by Raffaele Marchetti. London: Routledge.

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2020. Mobilising Evangelicals for Development Advocacy: Politics and Theology in the Micah Challenge Campaign for the Millennium Development Goals. 

In Faith Based Organizations in Development Discourses and Practices, edited by Andreas Heuser and Jens Koehrsen. London: Routledge. Download.

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2019. Religious and Secular Actors in the Emergence of Humanitarianism and Development. 

In Tearfund and the Quest for Faith-Based Development. Routledge, London. pp 18-38.

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2018. North-South Struggles on Financing for Development: State, Society and Market in the Global Age. 

Global Policy, 9, 3: 377-386.

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2018. De-Democratisation and Rising Inequality: The Underlying Cause of a Worrying Trend. 

Global Society, 32, 2: 344-364.

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2018. From ‘Christians doing Development’ to ‘Doing Christian Development’: The Changing Role of Religion in the International Work of Tearfund.

Development in Practice, 28, 2: 280-291.

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2018. Foreword. 

In The State of Status Groups in Ethiopia: Minorities Between Marginalisation and Integration, edited by Susanne Epple. Berlin: Reimer.

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2017. The Global South at the UN: Using International Politics to Re-Vision the Global. 

The Global South, 11, 2: 71-91.

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2017. Affordances of Rupture and their Enactment: A Framework for Understanding Christian Change. 

Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 42, 4: 3-24.

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2015. Techniques of Happiness: Moving Toward and Away from the Good Life in Rural Ethiopia.

Special Issue: Happiness – Horizons of Purpose. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 5, 3: 157-176.

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2015. Pentecostalism and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa. 

In The Routledge Handbook of Religions and Global Development, edited by Emma Tomalin. London: Routledge.

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2013. Pentecostalism in a Rural Context: Dynamics of Religion and Development in Southwest Ethiopia.

PentecoStudies, 12,2: 231-249.

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2013. Value Chains for Development: An Ethnography of Pro-Poor Market Interventions in Ethiopia. 

Anthropology of This Century. Issue 6.

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2012. The Pentecostal Ethic and the Spirit of Development. 

In Pentecostalism and Development: Churches, NGOs and Social Change in Africa, edited by Dena Freeman. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

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2012. Development and the Rural Entrepreneur: Pentecostals, NGOs and the Market in the Gamo Highlands, Ethiopia. 

In Pentecostalism and Development: Churches, NGOs and Social Change in Africa, edited by Dena Freeman. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

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2009. Development and (Un)happiness: A Case Study from Rural Ethiopia. 

In Gross National Happiness: Practice and Measurement, edited by K Ura and Dorje Penjore. Centre for Bhutan Studies, Thimpu.

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2006. Who are the D’ache? And Who are the Gamo?: Confusions of Ethnicity in Ethiopia’s Southern Highlands. 

In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, edited by Siebert Uhling. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.

 

2003. Homeworkers in Global Supply Chains. 

Greener Management International, 43:1-12.

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2003. Understanding Marginalisation in Ethiopia. 

In Peripheral People: The Excluded Minorities of Ethiopia, edited by Dena Freeman and Alula Pankhurst. London: Hurst.

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2003. Gamo.

In Peripheral People: The Excluded Minorities of Ethiopia, edited by Dena Freeman and Alula Pankhurst. London: Hurst.

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2003. Change and Development: Lessons from the Twentieth Century. (Co-authored with Alula Pankhurst)

In Peripheral People: The Excluded Minorities of Ethiopia, edited by Dena Freeman and Alula Pankhurst. London: Hurst.

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2002. From Warrior to Wife: Cultural Transformation in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia. 

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 8:34-44. (*This article won the Curl Essay Prize of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2000) Download

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2002. Theorising Change. 

In Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation, by Dena Freeman. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

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2000. The Generation of Difference: Initiations in Gamo, Sidamo and Boran (Oromo).

Northeast African Studies, 7,3 (N.S):35-57. Download

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2000. Cultural Variation in Southern Ethiopia: An Introduction.

Northeast African Studies, 7,3 (N.S): 15-20.