Section: Research Student Profiles

Stewart Allen

Name
Stewart Allen
Title
Organisation
School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
Edinburgh UK
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URL
http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/research_students/stewart_allen

PhD Title

Spectacles of Development: The Materiality of Success at the Barefoot College, Rajasthan

Research topic

My research focuses on the anthropology of a community-based development organisation in Rajasthan, India, in particular, its programme of decentralised, community-managed solar photovoltaics. I consider the various ways in which success was generated and how particular discourses were utilised in the course of an organisation's development from messy, localised, ad hoc trial and error, to globalised, replicable, context-free development model.

 

Publications

Allen, Stewart. (2012). 'The Materiality of Knowledge Production'. Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology. Vol 3, No 1.

Allen, Stewart. 2011. 'Barefoot Engineers: The Non-Mobility of Knowledge in a Knowledge Transfer Project'. Anthropology Matters. Vol. 13 (1)

Other

Allen, Stewart. 2009. 'The Barefoot College Approach'. Environment and Poverty Times,United Nations Environment Programmme (UNEP). (6)

Awards

ESRC +3 Quota studentship

Tweedie Exploration Fellowship

Education

MA Hons (First) Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, 2004

MA (Distinction) Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, University of Leiden, 2006

MSc Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh, 2008

Supervisors

Professor Francesca Bray

Dr. Jamie Cross 

 

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