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Anthony Bebbington

Anthony Bebbington is Professor of Professor of Nature, Society and Development in School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, UK.


Background

Tony Bebbington was born in Stoke on Trent, studied geography at the University of Cambridge where he graduated with distinction, and completed a PhD at the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, USA in 1990. He held a postdoctoral appointment in Latin American Studies at Cambridge (1989-1992), before working at two London thinktanks: the Overseas Development Institute (1992-4) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (1994-5). He moved to the USA again in 1995, working at the World Bank (1995-6, 1999-2000) and as Associate Professor of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder (1996-2003) before moving to Manchester. Awards include a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study, Stanford University and an ESRC Professorial Fellowship to conduct research in Latin America (2007-2009).

Contributions

Bebbington's early work was on farmer knowledge, livelihoods, and agrarian change in Peru and Ecuador, with distinctve contributions to human geography and rural sociology. An interest in rural organizations and social movements led to work on the performance and practice on non-governmental organizations in Latin America and further afield, with several books written on NGOs and their contributions to development. After working in social policy at the World Bank, he became interested in World Bank-NGO interactions, and particularly the use of 'social capital' in the World Bank's work. Recent work has been on mining, development, and the state in Peru and Ecuador. He has worked most often in the Andes, elsewhere in South and Central America, and in Indonesia.

Publications

Books

  • Bebbington, A.J, S. Hickey and D Mitlin (eds). 2008. Can NGOs Make A Difference? The Challenge of Development Alternatives. London. Zed.
  • Bebbington, A.J, A. Dani, A. de Haan, and M. Walton (eds.). 2008. Institutional Pathways to Equity: addressing inequality traps. London/Washington. Palgrave and World Bank.
  • Bebbington, A.J, M. Connarty, W. Coxshall, H. O'Shaugnessy, M. Williams. 2007 Mining and development in Peru, with special reference to the Rio Blanco Project, Piura. London. Peru Support Group. Translated and published in Peru as: Bebbington, A.J, M. Connarty, W. Coxshall, H.O'Shaugnessy, M. Williams. Minería y Desarrollo en Perúcon especial referencia al Proyecto Río Blanco, Piura. Lima. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos/CIPCA/Oxfam International/Peru Support Group.
  • Bebbington, A.J. and W. McCourt (eds.). 2007. Development success: statecraft in the South. London. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Bebbington, A.J. (ed.). 2007 Una ecología política de la minería moderna: movimientos sociales, empresas y desarrollo territorial. Lima. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos.
  • Bebbington, A.J. (ed.). 2007. Investigación y cambio social: desafíos para las ONG en Centroamérica y México. Guatemala City. Editorial de Ciencias Sociales.
  • Bebbington A.J., M Woolcock, S Guggenheim and E. Olson (eds.) 2006. The search for empowerment. Social Capital as idea and practice at the World Bank. West Hartford. Kumarian
  • Bebbington A.J, and V.H.Torres. 2001. El capital social en los Andes. Quito. Abya-Yala.
  • Bebbington A.J,, D. Muñoz con A. Espinar, M. Canedo and S. Croxton 2000. Los campesinos y las políticas públicas: encuentros y desencuentros. La Paz. Editorial Plural.
  • Riddell, R, AJ Bebbington, L Peck. 1995. Promoting Development by Proxy: The Development Impact of Government Support to Swedish NGOs. Stockholm: SIDA. ISBN 9158672222, 9789158672222
  • Farringdon, J., Bebbington, A.J, K. Wellard, D.Lewis. 1993. Reluctant Partners?: Non-governmental Organizations, the State and Sustainable Agricultural Development. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415088437, 9780415088435
  • de Boef, W, K. Amanor, K. Wellard, A.J. Bebbington (eds.). 1993. Cultivating Knowledge: Genetic Diversity, Farmer Experimentation and Crop Research. Intermediate Technology Publications. ISBN 1853392049, 9781853392047
  • Bebbington A.J, G. Thiele, P. Davies. 1993. Non-governmental Organizations and the State in Latin America: Rethinking Roles in Sustainable Agricultural Development. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415088461


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