Publications
Books
2022. Global Democracy: The Key to Global Justice. (Co-authored with Oded Gilad). Berlin: Democracy without Borders.
2020. Can Globalisation Succeed? London: Thames & Hudson.
2019. Tearfund and the Quest for Faith-Based Development. London: Routledge.
2012. Pentecostalism and Development: Churches, NGOs and Social Change in Africa. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
2003. Peripheral People: The Excluded Minorities of Ethiopia. (Co-edited with Alula Pankhurst). London: Hurst.
2002. Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Articles
2025. The Globalization Project of the Group of 77 (G77).
In The Handbook of the Globalization Projects of Regional Organizations, edited by Ulf Engel, Jens Herpolsheimer and Frank Mattheis. Leiden: Brill.
Globalizations, 1–19. Download
2022. Entangled Histories of ‘Development’, ‘development’ and ‘Christian development’.
In Perspectives on the History of Global Development, edited by Iris Borowy, Corinna Unger, Nicholas Ferns, and Jack Loveridge. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, pp. 59-80.
2020. Development as Transformation: Tearfund and the New Evangelical Approach to Holistic Change.
In Does Religion Make a Difference? Religious NGOs in International Development Collaboration, edited by Andreas Heuser and Jens Koehrsen. Basel: Nomos and Pano.
2020. Mission, Development and ‘Reverse Mission’ in Europe-Africa Religious Relations.
In Africa-Europe Relationship: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective, edited by Raffaele Marchetti. London: Routledge.
In Faith Based Organizations in Development Discourses and Practices, edited by Andreas Heuser and Jens Koehrsen. London: Routledge.
2019. Religious and Secular Actors in the Emergence of Humanitarianism and Development.
In Tearfund and the Quest for Faith-Based Development. Routledge, London. pp 18-38.
2018. North-South Struggles on Financing for Development: State, Society and Market in the Global Age.
Global Policy, 9, 3: 377-386.
2018. De-Democratisation and Rising Inequality: The Underlying Cause of a Worrying Trend.
Global Society, 32, 2: 344-364.
2018. From ‘Christians doing Development’ to ‘Doing Christian Development’: The Changing Role of Religion in the International Work of Tearfund.
Development in Practice, 28, 2: 280-291.
2018. Foreword.
In The State of Status Groups in Ethiopia: Minorities Between Marginalisation and Integration, edited by Susanne Epple. Berlin: Reimer.
2017. The Global South at the UN: Using International Politics to Re-Vision the Global.
The Global South, 11, 2: 71-91.
2017. Affordances of Rupture and their Enactment: A Framework for Understanding Christian Change.
Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 42, 4: 3-24.
2015. Techniques of Happiness: Moving Toward and Away from the Good Life in Rural Ethiopia.
Special Issue: Happiness – Horizons of Purpose. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 5, 3: 157-176.
2015. Pentecostalism and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
In The Routledge Handbook of Religions and Global Development, edited by Emma Tomalin. London: Routledge.
2013. Pentecostalism in a Rural Context: Dynamics of Religion and Development in Southwest Ethiopia.
PentecoStudies, 12,2: 231-249.
2013. Value Chains for Development: An Ethnography of Pro-Poor Market Interventions in Ethiopia.
Anthropology of This Century. Issue 6.
2012. The Pentecostal Ethic and the Spirit of Development.
In Pentecostalism and Development: Churches, NGOs and Social Change in Africa, edited by Dena Freeman. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
In Pentecostalism and Development: Churches, NGOs and Social Change in Africa, edited by Dena Freeman. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
2009. Development and (Un)happiness: A Case Study from Rural Ethiopia.
In Gross National Happiness: Practice and Measurement, edited by K Ura and Dorje Penjore. Centre for Bhutan Studies, Thimpu.
2006. Who are the D’ache? And Who are the Gamo?: Confusions of Ethnicity in Ethiopia’s Southern Highlands.
In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, edited by Siebert Uhling. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
2003. Homeworkers in Global Supply Chains.
Greener Management International, 43:1-12.
2003. Understanding Marginalisation in Ethiopia.
In Peripheral People: The Excluded Minorities of Ethiopia, edited by Dena Freeman and Alula Pankhurst. London: Hurst.
2003. Gamo.
In Peripheral People: The Excluded Minorities of Ethiopia, edited by Dena Freeman and Alula Pankhurst. London: Hurst.
2003. Change and Development: Lessons from the Twentieth Century. (Co-authored with Alula Pankhurst)
In Peripheral People: The Excluded Minorities of Ethiopia, edited by Dena Freeman and Alula Pankhurst. London: Hurst.
2002. From Warrior to Wife: Cultural Transformation in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 8:34-44. (*This article won the Curl Essay Prize of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2000) Download
2002. Theorising Change.
In Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation, by Dena Freeman. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
2000. The Generation of Difference: Initiations in Gamo, Sidamo and Boran (Oromo).
Northeast African Studies, 7,3 (N.S):35-57. Download
2000. Cultural Variation in Southern Ethiopia: An Introduction.
Northeast African Studies, 7,3 (N.S): 15-20.