MSc Social Development Practice staff publications

A selection of the most recent publications from MSc Social Development Practice staff.

Julian Walker

• Walker, J., Koroma, B., Sellu, S.A., & Rigon, A. (2021). The social regulation of livelihoods in unplanned settlements in Freetown: implications for strategies of formalisation. International Development Planning Review, pp.1-23.
• Rigon, A., Walker, J., & Koroma, B. (2020). Beyond formal and informal: Understanding urban informalities from Freetown. Cities, 105. doi:10.1016/j.cities.2020.102848
• Walker, J., Rifai, A., Fuad, J., & Kurniawan, V. (2020). Country Capacity Assessment for Assistive Technologies: Informal Markets Study, Indonesia. London, UK: GDI Hub.
• Walker, J., Sallam, N., Sesay, S., & Gandi, I. (2020). Country Capacity Assessment for Assistive Technologies: Informal Markets Study, Sierra Leone. London, UK: GDI Hub.
• Onyebueke, V. U., Walker, J., Lipietz, B., Ujah, O., & Ibezim-Ohaeri, V. (2020). Evicting the poor in the ‘overriding public interest’: Crisis of rights and interests, and contestations in Nigerian cities. Cities, 101. doi:10.1016/j.cities.2020.102675

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Andrea Rigon

• Fiori, J., Espada, F., Rigon, A., Taithe, B., & Zakaria, R. (Eds.). (2021). Amidst the debris. Humanitarianism and the end of liberal order. Hurst Publishers.
• Rigon, A., & Castán Broto, V. (Eds.). (2021). Inclusive urban development in the Global South. Intersectionality, inequalities, and community. Routledge.
• Walker, J., Koroma, B., Sellu, S.A., & Rigon, A. (2021). The social regulation of livelihoods in unplanned settlements in Freetown: implications for strategies of formalisation. International Development Planning Review, pp.1-23.
• Rigon, A., Walker, J., & Koroma, B. (2020). Beyond formal and informal: Understanding urban informalities from Freetown. Cities, 105. doi:10.1016/j.cities.2020.102848
• Carpi, E., Field, J.A., Dicker, S.I., & Rigon, A. (2020). From livelihoods to leisure and back: refugee ‘self-reliance’ as collective practices in Lebanon, India and Greece. Third World Quarterly, pp.1-20.

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Afia Afenah

• Afenah, A. (2021). From collegiality to gatekeeping: modes of everyday governance in Old Fadama, Accra. In Rigon, A., & Castán Broto, V. (Eds.). (2021). Inclusive urban development in the Global South. Intersectionality, inequalities, and community. Routledge.
• Afenah, A. (2012). Engineering a millennium city in Accra, Ghana: the old Fadama intractable issue. Urban Forum, 23 (4), 527-540. doi:10.1007/s12132-012-9155-z

Jordana Ramalho

• Ramalho, J. (2020). Engendering disaster risk management and resilience-building: The significance of the everyday in evaluations of the exceptional. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 50. doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101830
• Ramalho, J. (2020). Hope, home and insecurity: Gendered labours of resilience among the urban poor of Metro Cebu, the Philippines. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. doi:10.1177/0263775820959337
• Ramalho, J. (2019). Empowerment in the era of resilience-building: gendered participation in community-based (disaster) risk management in the Philippines. International Development Planning Review, 41 (2), 129-148. doi:10.3828/idpr.2018.25
• Ramalho, J. (2019). Worlding aspirations and resilient futures: Framings of risk and contemporary city-making in Metro Cebu, the Philippines. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 60 (1), 24-36. doi:10.1111/apv.12208
• Chant, S., Klett-Davie, M., & Ramalho, J. (2017). Challenges and potential solutions for adolescent girls in urban settings: a rapid evidence review. London: Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence.

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Ignacia Ossul Vermehren

• Ossul-Vermehren, I. (2018). The politics of home-making: a gender-based approach to self-help housing. Revista INVI, 33(93). 9-51.
• Ossul-Vermehren, I. (2018). Lo político de hacer-hogar: una mirada de género a la vivienda autoconstruída. Revista INVI, 33(93). 9-51.
• Berroeta, H., Carvalho, L., Di Masso, A., & Ossul Vermehren, I. (2017). Apego al lugar: una aproximación psicoambiental a la vinculación afectiva con el entorno en procesos de reconstrucción del hábitat residencial. Revista INVI, 32(91), 113–139.
• Ossul-Vermehren, I. (2018). Allegados. In A. Ledeneva (Ed.), The Global Encyclopedia of Informality, volume 2 (pp. 19–23). London: UCL PRESS.
• Fernandes, A., Frediani A., Ossul Vermehren, I., Morgado Mendoza M. and Risi, F. (Eds.). (2018). Collective Practices, Instruments for Collective Action and the Right to the City in Salvador, Bahia/Práticas Coletivas, Instrumentos para Ação e o Direito à Cidade em Salvador, Bahia. London: UCL Development Planning Unit.

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