Professor of International Development,
Department of International Development.
Biography
Professor Jude Howell was Director of the LSE Centre for Civil Society between 2003 and 2010, running a wide range of internationally focussed research projects and events on civil society. She is Director of the ESRC Research Programme on Non-Governmental Public Action and Series Editor of the Palgrave Press book series on Non-Governmental Public Action. Prior to working at the LSE, she was governance team leader at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.
Research Interests
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Civil society;
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security and aid;
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civil society and development;
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civil society and governance issues in China;
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trade unionism and labour organising in China;
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Chinese development model and aid;
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Country research experience in China, India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Mozambique, Kyrgyzstan.
Recent publications
Books
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Global Matters for Non-Governmental Public Action (edited), (Palgrave Press, forthcoming 2012)
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NGOs and Social Development. A Comparative Study (co-edited with Peng Xizhe and Wang Chuanlan), (Fudan University Press, forthcoming 2012)
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Civil Society Under Strain post-9/11: Counter-terrorism policy, aid and civil society, edited by Jude Howell and Jeremy Lind (Kumarian Press, 2010)
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Counter-terrorism, Aid and Civil Society: Before and After the War on Terror by Jude Howell and Jeremy Lind (October 2009, Palgrave Macmillan)
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Gender and Civil Society edited by Jude Howell and Diane Mulligan, 2004 (paperback 2005)
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Governance in China edited by Jude Howell, Rowman and Littlefield Inc. December 2003 (paperback 2004)
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Civil Society and Development. A Critical Interrogation, Howell, J. and Pearce, J. Lynne Rienner Inc., Boulder, Colorado, March 2001 (paperback January 2002) pp. 266
Articles
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`Crises, opportunities and the elephant in the room', 2011, Journal of Civil Society volume 7, number 3, pp. 265-271, September
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`Challenges to civil society post-9/11: cluster introduction' (Jude Howell and Jeremy Lind), Development and Change, volume 41, issue number 2, March 2010, pp. 279-291
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`Counter-terrorism, the politics of aid and civil society responses in Kenya', (Jeremy Lind and Jude Howell), Development and Change, volume 41, issue number 2, March 2010, pp. 335-353
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`Manufacturing Civil Society and the Limits of Legitimacy: Aid, Security and Civil Society post-9/11 in Afghanistan' (with J. Lind) in European Journal of Development Research, 2009, Special DSA conference issue, volume 21, number 5, December, pp. 718-736
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`Government-Organised Nongovernment Organisations\' 2009, in Pong, David et al (eds.) Encyclopaedia of Modern China, volume 2-14, Charles Scribner's Sons
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(with J. Lind) `The global War on Terror regime and development policy and practice post-9/11, Third World Quarterly, volume 30, number 7, October 2009, pp. 1279-1296
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`ACFTU: Beyond Reform? The Slow March Of Direct Elections\', The China Quarterly, December 2008, number 196, pp. 845-863
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`The Backlash against Civil Society in the wake of the Long War on Terror', Development in Practice, volume 18, number 1, pp. 82-93, 2007
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`Gender and civil society: time for cross-border dialogue', Journal of Social Politics, volume 14, number 4, winter 2007, pp. 1-22.
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