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Scopus Author ID: 55742516500
ResearcherID: O-7695-2018
Scopus Author ID: 55742516500

Keywords

anthropology; NGOs; civil society; rural development; South Asia; Bangladesh; arts and development

Countries

United Kingdom

Biography

David Lewis is professor of anthropology and development at LSE.

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Employment (3)

London School of Economics: London, GB

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London School of Economics & Political Science

London School of Economics and Political Science: London, GB

1995-05-01 to present | Academic (International Development)
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David Lewis

Overseas Development Institute: London, GB

1990-05-01 to 1994-10-01 | Research Associate
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of Bath: Bath, GB

1986-10-01 to 1990-06-25 | PhD Rural Sociology/Development Studies
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University of Cambridge: Cambridge, GB

1979-10-01 to 1982-06-30 | BA Social Anthropology
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Funding (3)

Ethnographic Solutions to Inequalities in South Asian Advicescapes

2021-09 to 2023-09 | Grant
Atlantic Philanthropies (NY, NY, US)
URL: https://afsee.atlanticfellows.org/atlantic-equity-challenge
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David Lewis

Evidence and the Politics of Participation in Academic-INGO Research Partnerships for International Development

2015-01-01 to 2017-08-30 | Grant
Economic and Social Research Council (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.3957270
GRANT_NUMBER: ES/M002306/1
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Activists, Power and Sectoral Boundaries: life histories of NGO activists

2005-01 to 2008-09 | Grant
Economic and Social Research Council (Swindon, GB)
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From Ecosystems to Advicescapes: Business, Development and Advice in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh

Journal of South Asian Development
2024-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/09731741241239120
Contributors: David Lewis; Rebecca Bowers; Luke Heslop; Simon Tawfic
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Clarifying confusion between development as 'change' and 'intention'

The Companion to Development Studies
2024-05-28 | Book chapter | Author
DOI: 10.4324/9780429282348-12
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Contributors: David Lewis
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London School of Economics & Political Science

Foreword

COVID-19 in South Asia
2024-04-30 | Book chapter | Author
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Managed urban retreat: the trouble with crisis narratives

Urban Geography
2024-01-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2023.2228094
Contributors: M. Feisal Rahman; David Lewis; Laura Kuhl; Andrew Baldwin; Hanna Ruszczyk; Md. Nadiruzzaman; Yousuf Mahid
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Bangladesh goes to the polls

2024-01-01 | Interactive resource | Author
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University-Based Researchers as Knowledge Brokers for Climate Policies and Action

The European Journal of Development Research
2023-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1057/s41287-022-00526-0
Contributors: David Lewis; M. Feisal Rahman; Revocatus Twinomuhangi; Shababa Haque; Nazmul Huq; Saleemul Huq; Lars Ribbe; Asif Ishtiaque
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Book review

Pacific Affairs
2023-06-30 | Journal article | Author
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Why study entrepreneurship advice in South Asia?

2023-02-20 | Interactive resource | Author
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Contributors: David Lewis
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Is development an art or a science?

2023-01-09 | Interactive resource | Author
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Contributors: David Lewis; Dennis Rodgers; Michael Woolcock
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New mediums, better messages? How innovations in translation, engagement, and advocacy are changing international development

2022-06-15 | Book | Editor
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ISBN: 9780198858768
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Contributors: David Lewis; Dennis Rodgers; Michael Woolcock
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University-Based Researchers as Knowledge Brokers for Climate Policies and Action

OpenAlex
2022-05-17 | Other
DOI: 10.60692/9wj71-mn551
Contributors: David Lewis; M. F. Rahman; Revocatus Twinomuhangi; Sabrina Haque; Nazmul Huq; Saleemul Huq; Lars Ribbe; Asif Ishtiaque
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University-Based Researchers as Knowledge Brokers for Climate Policies and Action

OpenAlex
2022-05-17 | Other
DOI: 10.60692/w05z7-q0735
Contributors: David Lewis; M. F. Rahman; Revocatus Twinomuhangi; Sabrina Haque; Nazmul Huq; Saleemul Huq; Lars Ribbe; Asif Ishtiaque
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Local Political Consolidation in Bangladesh: Power, Informality and Patronage

Development and Change
2022-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/dech.12534
Contributors: David Lewis; Abul Hossain
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Rural mechanization for equitable development: Disarray, disjuncture and disruption

Development Policy Review
2021-12-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/dpr.12612
Contributors: David Lewis; Stephen Biggs; Scott E. Justice
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The Sounds of Development: Musical Representation as A(nother) Source of Development Knowledge

The Journal of Development Studies
2021-08-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2020.1862800
Contributors: David Lewis; Dennis Rodgers; Michael Woolcock
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Redefining deprivation in a conflict area

LSE Middle East Centre Paper Series
2021-03 | Working paper | Author
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Contributors: Tiziana Leone; Weeam Hammoudeh; Susan Mitwali; David Lewis; Rawan Kafri; Tracy Lin; Rita Giacaman; ernestina coast
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Rethinking the Bangladesh state

Contributions to Indian Sociology
2020-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/0069966720911733
Part of ISSN: 0069-9667
Part of ISSN: 0973-0648
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The sounds of development

Social Policy Working Paper Series
2020-06-01 | Working paper | Author
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Contributors: David Lewis; Dennis Rodgers; Michael Woolcock
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‘Big D’ and ‘little d’: two types of twenty-first century development?

Third World Quarterly
2019-11-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2019.1630270
Contributors: David Lewis
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Humanitarianism, civil society and the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh

Third World Quarterly
2019-10-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2019.1652897
Contributors: David Lewis
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NGOs and management studies

Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations
2019-03-08 | Book chapter | Author
DOI: 10.4324/9781315268927
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Social entrepreneurship before neoliberalism?

Social Policy Working Paper Series
2019-01-01 | Working paper | Author
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Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914-1999)

Key Thinkers on Development
2018 | Book chapter | Author
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Dealing with the local level power structure: findings from a qualitative study of three villages in Greater Faridpur District

Journal of Bangladesh Studies
2018-12-01 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: David Lewis; Abul Hossain
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What should be the future of UK-Bangladesh relations after aid? Exit DFID, enter the universities

2018-07-13 | Website | Author
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Contributors: Saleemul Huq; David Lewis
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The view from Cox's Bazar: assessing the impact of the Rohingya crisis on Bangladesh

2018-04-11 | Website | Author
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Peopling policy processes? Methodological populism in the Bangladesh health and education sectors

World Development
2018-03-30 | Journal article
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Oxfam crisis: we need a more informed debate about NGOs and international aid

2018-02-20 | Website | Author
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Engagements with a productively unstable category: anthropologists and non-governmental organizations

Current Anthropology
2017 | Journal article
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David Lewis

Anthropologists' encounters with NGOs: critique, collaboration, and conflict

Cultures of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs
2017-10-01 | Book chapter
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David Lewis

Engagements with a productively unstable category: anthropologists and non-governmental organizations

Current Anthropology
2017-10-01 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: David Lewis; Mark Schuller
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Revisiting the local power structure in Bangladesh: economic gain, political pain?

Sida/LSE
2017-09-01 | Book
ISBN: ISBN 9781909890404
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Should We Pay More Attention to South-North Learning?

Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance
2017-08-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/23303131.2017.1366222
Contributors: David Lewis
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Age of despair or age of hope? Palestinian women's perspectives on midlife health

Social Science & Medicine
2017-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.05.028
Contributors: Doaa Hammoudeh; Ernestina Coast; David Lewis; Yoke van der Meulen; Tiziana Leone; Rita Giacaman
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Anthropologists’ encounters with NGOs: critique, collaboration, and conflict

Cultures of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs
2016 | Book chapter | Author
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Abandoned pasts, disappearing futures: further reflections on multiple temporalities in studying non-governmental organisation worlds

Critique of Anthropology
2015 | Journal article
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Age of despair or age of hope? Older Palestinian women's perspectives on health in midlife

Lancet Palestinian Health Alliance 6th conference
2015 | Conference paper
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Age of despair or age of hope? Older Palestinian women’s perspectives on health in midlife

Lancet Palestinian Health Alliance 6th conference, Beirut, Lebanon, 20/03/15
2015 | Conference paper | Author
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Contributors: Doaa Hammoudeh; ernestina coast; Rita Giacaman; David Lewis; Yoke Rabaia; Tiziana Leone
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Contesting Parallel Worlds: Time to Abandon the Distinction Between the ‘International’ and ‘Domestic’ Contexts of Third Sector Scholarship?

Voluntas
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11266-014-9482-x
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Livelihood resilience in a changing world? Six global policy recommendations for a more sustainable future

2015 | Report
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David Lewis

Livelihood resilience in the face of climate change

Nature Climate Change
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2431
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Contributors: Tanner, T.; Lewis, D.; Wrathall, D.; Bronen, R.; Cradock-Henry, N.; Huq, S.; Lawless, C.; Nawrotzki, R.; Prasad, V.; Rahman, M.A. et al.
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Non-governmental organizations and civil society

Routledge handbook of contemporary Bangladesh
2015 | Book chapter
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Abandoned pasts, disappearing futures: further reflections on multiple temporalities in studying non-governmental organisation worlds

Critique of Anthropology
2015-12-21 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X15617304
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Livelihood resilience in a changing world – 6 global policy recommendations for a more sustainable future

UNU-EHS Working Paper
2015-12-08 | Working paper | Author
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Contributors: David Lewis; Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson; Thomas Tanner; Kees van der Geest; Koko Warner
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Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century

Pluto
2015-09-01 | Book
ISBN: 978 0 7453 3364 9
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David Lewis

Book review: non-governmental organizations, management and development, 3rd Edition

2015-08-06 | Website | Author
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Is civil society in trouble in Bangladesh?

2015-07-13 | Website | Author
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Non-governmental organizations and civil society

Routledge handbook of contemporary Bangladesh
2015-06-30 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9780415734615
Contributors: David Lewis
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Anthropology and development: challenges for the twenty-first century

2015-02-20 | Book | Author
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ISBN: 9780745333656
Contributors: Katy Gardner; David Lewis
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Anthropology of NGOs

Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology
2014 | Book chapter | Author
DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199766567-0090
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Contributors: Mark Schuller; David Lewis
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