Dr Elsje Fourie, Associate Professor of Globalisation and Development (E.E.)

I am a sociologist of globalisation with regional expertise in East Asia and East Africa.

My research has been featured in several leading  journals, in newspapers such as The Guardian, and in international broadcast media.

My current research interests include:

• The politics of global knowledge and cultural production (with special reference to societies in the global South)
• Development theory (with a focus on theories of modernity and modernisation)
• The political economy of industrialisation in Ethiopia and (historically) East Asia
• Social upgrading in global value chains
• The social role of the literary novel in an era of global capitalism
• Creative nonfiction in research communication
• Qualitative case studies

I am a member of the FASoS Research Panel, which advises colleagues before they submit research grant applications to external bodies.

• Global Novels, Global Readers? Imagining transnational communities along the circuits of global literary consumption.
• Wellbeing, Women and Work in Ethiopia (the "3WE" Project). 
• From Poverty Reduction to Economic Growth: Aid, Business Interests and the 2030 Agenda (the Aid2Growth Project).

• Fourie, E., Dito, B., Gudeta, K., Schelleman-Offermans, K., Mazzucato, V., & Jonas, K. (2024). The Bitter and the Sweet: Managerial Perceptions of the Well-Being of Ethiopian Female Apparel and Horticultural Workers. Progress in Development Studies, 24(2), 185-201. https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934231210099

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• Fourie, E. (2023). On Watching Shoes Being Made in Addis Ababa. Anthropology and Humanism, 48, 77-82. https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12414

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• Fourie, E. (2020). Humanizing Industrialization? Japanese Productivity Methods, Ethiopian Factories, and Low Modernism in Foreign Aid. Global Perspectives, 1(1), Article 17426. https://doi.org/10.1525/gp.2020.17426

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• Mawdsley, E., Fourie, E., & Nauta, W. (Eds.) (2019). Researching South-South development cooperation: the politics of knowledge production. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. Rethinking Development https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429459146

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• Fourie, E. (2017). The Intersection of East Asian and African Modernities: Towards a New Research Agenda . Social Imaginaries, 3(1), 119-146. https://doi.org/10.5840/si2017316

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• Fourie, E. E. (2015). China's example for Meles' Ethiopia: when development ‘models’ land. Journal of Modern African Studies, 53(3), 289-316. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X15000397

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• Fourie, E. E. (2014). Model students: Policy emulation, modernization, and Kenya's Vision 2030. African Affairs, 113(453), 540-562. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adu058

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• Schelleman-Offermans, K., Dito, B. B., Gudeta, K. H., Fourie, E., Kebede, S. W., Mazzucato, V., & Jonas, K. J. (2024). Socio-economic inequities in mental health problems and wellbeing among women working in the apparel and floriculture sectors: testing the mediating role of psychological capital, social support and tangible assets. BMC Public Health, 24(1), Article 1157. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18678-5

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• Cagliani, F., Mazzucato, V., & Fourie, E. (2023). Women's social resilience in the context of male out-migration in Dehradun district, India. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 32(4), 798-820. https://doi.org/10.1177/01171968241228303

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• Mayer, N., Dana Darebo, T., Fourie, E., & Bosse, G. (2023). Climate Variability and Development Interventions Influence Migration Aspirations and Capabilities of Project Beneficiaries in Southern Ethiopia. Migration & Development, 12(1), 68-90. https://doi.org/10.1177/21632324231194762

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For a full list of publications, please see my Google Scholar profile.