Global Water, Energy & Infrastructure
Research on water, energy and infrastructure provision in the global south, including case studies from sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Central Asia and Australia.
- 2026 The Rocky Road to Net Zero: Conflict and Contestation in Creating a Gas-Free Victoria
Journal of Australian Political Economy, 96, 77–103. With Jim Crossthwaite and Elke Pirgmaier.
- 2025 A Political Economy Perspective on Mauritian Water Services
In C. Oya, R. Ramola and T.R. Verena (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Mauritian Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 384–411. With Aleksandra Peeroo. Book chapter.
- 2024 'Water for all': The unlikely confluence of divergent interests (in resisting neoliberalism and promoting human rights) in Mumbai's slums
Geoforum. With Pranjal Deekshit. Journal article.
- 2023 The Financialization of Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 5, pp. 78–92 in E. Chiapello, A. Engels, E. Gonçalves Gresse (eds.) Financialisations of Development: Global Games and Local Experiments. Routledge: London. With Elisa Van Waeyenberge. Book chapter.
- 2021 Uneven outcomes from private infrastructure finance: evidence from two case studies
Development in Practice. With Maria Jose Romero & Elisa Van Waeyenberge. Journal article.
- 2021 The power paradigm in practice: A critical review of developments in the Zambian electricity sector
World Development. With Gabriel Pollen. Journal article.
- 2020 Moving the goalposts: Reconfiguring the role of the private sector in the provision of water
Chapter 5 (pp.79–97) in J. Gideon and E. Unterhalter (eds.) Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships. Routledge: London. Book chapter.
- 2019 From Global to Local: Exploring the effects of the global energy policy paradigm in Zambia
Working Paper No. 119, Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds. With Gabriel Pollen.
- 2016 The System of Provision for Water in Selected Case Study Countries
FESSUD Working Paper Series, No. 194.
- 2016 Tajikistan Water Public Environmental Expenditure Review
Report for UNDP prepared with team from NAMO Consultancy, Dushanbe.
- 2016 Neoliberalised Water in South Africa
FESSUD Working Paper Series, No. 204.
- 2016 Public, not private, money needed to plug Africa's water and sanitation gaps
The Conversation, 23 October 2016.
- 2014 The Financialization of Water
Review of Radical Political Economics. Journal article.
- 2013 Financing Water in Africa
SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper Series, No. 182.
- 2013 Commercialising Communities: Transitions in Water management in rural Senegal
UNDP Working Paper. With Seydi Ababacar Dieng and Mansour Diop.
- 2012 Where have all the Alternatives Gone?: The Shrinking of Africa's Water Policy Options
In D. McDonald and G. Ruiters (eds.) Alternatives to Privatization: Public Options for Essential Services in the Global South. Routledge. With Al-Hassan Adam. Book chapter.
- 2012 Strengthening pro-poor targeting of investments by African utilities in urban water and sanitation – the role of the International Development Association of the World Bank
Report for WaterAid with ODI. With Peter Newborne and Josephine Tucker.
- 2011 Services and Supply Chains: The role of the domestic private sector in the delivery of water in Dar es Salaam
UNDP Working Paper. With Rehema Tukai.
- 2011 Output Based Contracts in Small Towns' Water Supply in Uganda — Challenges and Opportunities
UNDP Working Paper. With Sam Watasa.