Forskningscenter Socio-Economic Research Centre
The Centre of African Economies (CAE) has from November 1, 2021 been transformed into the Socio-Economic Research Centre (SECO) in order to better capture the research on contemporary political and socio-economic dynamics in advanced, emerging and developing countries.
The Socio-Economic Research Centre (SECO) is an interdisciplinary centre conducting research on contemporary political and socio-economic dynamics in advanced, emerging and developing countries in the intersections between economic sociology, political economy and heterodox economics.
In particular, the Centre explores:
- The organization of labour markets
- The nature, pace and outcomes of processes of capitalist transformation
- The links between the regulation of economic transactions and state formation
- The social and financial challenges of transitioning to a net-zero carbon economy
- The political economy of natural-resource extraction, with implications for political instability
- How processes of commodification shape relationships between humanitarianism and development
- The objectives and effects of changing economic policies, from industrial policy to financial regulation
Researchers at the Centre provide unique insights into these issues by applying methodologies that emphasize in-depth political and socio-economic knowledge at different social scales, as well as comparative work.
Theoretically, the Centre’s research is multi-faceted, but its affiliated researchers all share an interest in pluralism in the global political economy and socio-economics.
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Kontakt
Lars Buur, centerleder/lektor, lbuur@ruc.dk
Lone Riisgaard, lektor, loner@ruc.dk (ny centerleder fra 1. februar 2023)
Forskere fra Roskilde Universitet
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The Socio-Economic Research Centre is envolved in a number of research projects.
Producing alternative green futures: Exploring interconnections between green transitions and socioeconomics and political organization.
Lone Riisgaard, Roskilde University, Project leader, Associate professor, loner@ruc.dk
Jacob Rasmussen, Roskilde University, Project participant, Associate professor, jacobra@ruc.dk
https://ruc.dk/nyheder/samfundsforskere-vil-udfordre-begrebet-groen-vaekst (in Danish)
CASH-IN: privately managed cash transfers in Africa
Lars Buur, Roskilde University, Project coordinator, Associate professor, lbuur@ruc.dk
Malin Nystrand, Gothenburg University and Roskilde University, Project participant, malinn@ruc.dk
Jacob Ulrich, Roskilde University, Project participant, P.hd. Fellow, jacobu@ruc.dk
Bruno Yawe, Project leader
Rehema Kilonzo, Project leader
Lutengano Mwinuka, Project participant
Raphael Macha, Project participant
Fred Henry Beteganya, Project participant
Susan Namirembe Kavuma, Project participant
SWASH: Sustainable Wastewater Systems for Ghana
Paul Stacey, Roskilde University, Project participant, Associate professor, pas@ruc.dk
Jacob Rasmussen, Roskilde University, Project participant, Associate professor, jacobra@ruc.dk
Nina Torm, Roskilde University, Project participant, Postdoc, ninatorm@ruc.dk
Marin Oteng-Ababio, Project participant
Richard Grant, Project participant
Iris Fynn, Project participant
Issahaka Fuseini, Project participant
Decent Work and GVC-based Industrialization in Ethiopia (EthApparel)
The project examines concomitantly the three scales of global buyers, supplier firms, and workers as well as the agency of these actors in driving inclusive development outcomes in the context of Ethiopia’s political economy.
Kristoffer Marslev, Roskilde University, Postdoc, marslev@ruc.dk
Illegal resource extraction and state formation in emerging African democracies (GOLD)
Paul Stacey, Roskilde University, Project participant, Associate professor, pas@ruc.dk
Lars Buur, Roskilde University, Project participant, Associate professor, lbuur@ruc.dk
Abdul-Gafaru Abdulia, University Ghana, Legion, agabdulai@ug.edu.gh
Commodifying Compassion: Implications of Turning People and Humanitarian Causes into Marketable Things (CoCo research)
Commodifying Compassion aims to understand how ‘helping’ has become a marketable commodity and how this impacts humanitarianism symbolically and materially.
Mette Fog Olwig, Roskilde University, Associate professor, mettefo@ruc.dk
https://www.commodifyingcompassion.com/
Informal Worker Organization and Social Protection (SPIWORK)
This project investigates emerging collective forms of informal worker organization, and their potential for enabling informal worker access to social protection measures in Kenya and Tanzania.
Lone Riisgaard, Roskilde University, Project leader, Associate professor, loner@ruc.dk
Nina Torm, Roskilde University, Project participant, Postdoc, ninatorm@ruc.dk
Winnie Mitullah, Professor, ex-Director of the Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi, Kenya, mitulla@uonbi.ac.ke
Godbertha Kinyondo, Senior Lecturer, Mzumbe University, Business School, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Anne Kamau, Lecturer, Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi, Kenya
Hierarchies of Rights: Land and natural resource investments in Africa (Hierarchies)
The HIERARCHIES research programme researches how struggles related to large-scale investments into natural resources reconfigure rights to land by local populations in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Lars Buur, Roskilde University, Project leader, Associate professor, lbuur@ruc.dk
Josè Macuane, University Eduardo Mondlane, MZ (Team Leader on Mozambique), macuane@yahoo.com.br
Carlota M. M. Tembe, University Eduardo Mondlane, MZ, carlota.mondlane@uem.mz
Faustin Maganga, University Dar es Salaam, TZ (Team Leader on Tanzania) faustinmaganga@yahoo.co.uk
Opportuna Kweka, University of Dar es Salaam, TZ, okweka@yahoo.com
Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen, Danish Institute for International Studies, rhp@diis.dk
Emmanuel Sulle, University of Dar es Salaam, TZ, esulle@plaas.org.za
Malin Nystrand, Gothenburg University and Roskilde University, malinn@ruc.dk
Thabit Jacob, Roskilde University and Gothenburg University, thabit.jacob@gu.se
Padil Salimo, Eduardo Mondlane and Roskilde University, padil.salimo@gmail.com
Celso Monjane, Eduardo Mondlane and Roskilde University. monjanecelso@yahoo.com
Carlsberg Foundation Monography Fellowship
Laura Horn, Roskilde University, Associate professor, lhorn@ruc.dk
Sapere Aude/ Universal Aspiration vs. Geopolitical Divides: Imagining the World as a ‘Post-Millennial’ in the SDG Era
Se også: Bliver unge med ulige vilkår forenet i kampen om bæredygtig udvikling?
Mette Fog Olwig, Roskilde University, Associate professor, mettefo@ruc.dk
Carlsberg Foundation Research Infrastructure: Vegetarianism in a Global Perspective
Johan Fischer, Roskilde University, Associate Professor, johanf@ruc.dk
Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship: Going Green Globally? Moral Economies of Vegetarianism
Johan Fischer, Roskilde University, Associate Professor, johanf@ruc.dk
You find a list of projects at Centre profile at the Roskilde University Research Portal
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The CAE Working Papers has from November 1, 2021 been transformed into SECO Working Paper Series in order to better capture the research on contemporary political and socio-economic dynamics in advanced, emerging and developing countries.
The Socio-Economic Research Centre (SECO) Working Paper series publishes cutting-edge research on contemporary political and socio-economic dynamics in advanced, emerging and developing countries.
CAE and SECO Working Paper Series
Publikationer
Conclusion
Dyrhauge, H. & Kurze, K., 2024, Making the European Green Deal Work : EU Sustainability Policies at Home and Abroad. Dyrhauge, H. & Kurze, K. (red.). 1 udg. Abingdon: Routledge, s. 193-208 16 s. (Routledge Studies on the Governance of Sustainability in Europe).Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › peer review
A failing local exchange deal: Rights to land and resources in the wanbao rice investment in mozambique
Buur, L. & Beykirch, K., 17 mar. 2023, Land, Rights and the Politics of Investments in Africa: Ruling Elites, Investors and Populations in Natural Resource Investments. Buur, L., Macuane, J. J., Maganga, F. P. & Pedersen, R. H. (red.). Edward Elgar Publishing, s. 146-172 27 s.Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › peer review
Altruism in Investor Preferences: A Catalyst for the Green Transition
Dreyer, J. K. & Smith, W., 2023, Ethical Economy. Kacanski, S., Dreyer, J. K. & Sund, K. J. (red.). Springer Science+Business Media, s. 159-165 7 s. (Ethical Economy, Bind 64).Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › peer review
Aktiviteter
Liberatory Methods: Investigating and Generating Non-Capitalist/ Anti-Colonial Social Power
Emilia Teresa Lewartowska (Deltager) & Lone Riisgaard (Deltager)
12 jul. 2023 → 23 aug. 2023Aktivitet: Deltagelse i eller arrangering af en begivenhed › Deltagelse i workshop, seminar og kursus
EADI (European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes) CEsA General Conference 2023
Mette Fog Olwig (Arrangør) & Jacob Rasmussen (Arrangør)
10 jul. 2023 → 13 jul. 2023Aktivitet: Deltagelse i eller arrangering af en begivenhed › Organisation og deltagelse i konference
Natural Resource Management and Conflict in Africa
Paul Austin Stacey (Taler), Lars Buur (Deltager) & Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai (Taler)
26 jun. 2023Aktivitet: Deltagelse i eller arrangering af en begivenhed › Deltagelse i workshop, seminar og kursus
Presseklip
Birkenstock griber sit Barbie-øjeblik og går på børsen
14/09/2023
1 element af Mediedækning
Presse/medie
Syv kommuner vil være klimaneutrale allerede i 2030, men kun én har en plan for, hvordan det skal ske
13/09/2023
1 element af Mediedækning
Presse/medie
Mere viden
Upcoming activities
Here you will find a list of this semester's seminar series.
Bliver unge med ulige vilkår forenet i kampen om bæredygtig udvikling?
Unge, der engagerer sig i FNs Verdensmål og kæmper for klimaet eller med at løse andre globale udfordringer, kan have ulige vilkår for at deltage, alt efter hvor de kommer fra i verden. Hvordan oplever de unge uoverensstemmelsen mellem forventninger om ligeværdige, globale partnerskaber og deres vidt forskellige livsbetingelser? Det skal lektor Mette Fog Olwig fra Roskilde Universitet undersøge i et nyt forskningsprojekt.
Samfundsforskere vil udfordre begrebet ’grøn vækst’
Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond har bevilget 5,6 mio. kr. til et nyt forskningsprojekt på Roskilde Universitet, der skal komme med nye bud på løsninger af de globale miljøproblemer - uden fokus på vækst.
DFF bevilger 2,6 mio. kr. til ’smart cities’-projekt
I et nyt forskningsprojekt støttet af Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond skal lektor Jacob Rasmussen undersøge byudviklingen i Johannesburg, Mumbai og Nairobi.
Forskningsprojekt om private pengeoverførslers effekt i Afrika modtager 12 millioner kroner
Forskningsprojektet ’CASH-IN: Privately managed cash transfers in Africa’, som har lektor Lars Buur fra Roskilde Universitet som forskningsleder, modtager bevilling fra Danida.
Doktordisputats: Manglende industripolitik er årsag til sårbar økonomi i Ghana
Især to faktorer har gjort ghanesiske regeringer ude af stand til at implementere en vellykket industripolitik, hvilket er gået ud over landets økonomi, konkluderer professor (mso) Lindsay Whitfield, der forsvarer sin doktordisputats fredag den 24. maj.
Eliten er afgørende for afrikansk vækst
Selv om der er vækst i Afrika, gavner det ikke den brede befolkning. Nu har forskere på RUC identificeret, hvad der skal til for at skabe et forankret opsving i Afrika.
Base på RUC
Forskningcentret hører hjemme på Institut for Samfundsvidenskab og Erhverv
Relaterede forskningsenheder: International Development Research Group
Ph.D.-Skole: Doctoral School of Social Sciences and Business - International studies
Relevante uddannelser: Global and Development Studies // International Studies // International Bachelor in Social Sciences
Forskning fra Roskilde Universitet
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Socio-Economic Research Centres side på Roskilde Universitets Forskningsportal.
Kontakt
Forskningscenterledere
Lone Riisgaard
Lektor
Telefon + 45 4674 2959
loner@ruc.dk
Lars Buur
Lektor
Telefon +45 4674 3684
lbuur@ruc.dk