Selected bibliography

Short list of publications



Cowen, M. P. & Shenton, R. W., Doctrines of development. Routledge, 1996.

Cowen, Michael & MacWilliam, Scott, Indigenous capital in Kenya. The ‘Indian’ dimension of debate. Interkont Books 8, 1996.

Cowen, Michael & Laakso, Liisa, An overview of election studies in Africa. Journal of Modern African Studies 35 (1997): 4, 717-744.

Cowen, Michael & Kanyinga, Karuti, The 1997 elections in Kenya: the politics of communality and locality. Institute of Development Studies, Working Paper 7/1998.

Cowen, M. P. & Shenton, R. W., Agrarian doctrines of development: Part I & II. Journal of Peasant Studies 25 (1998), 2: 49-76 & Journal of Peasant Studies 25 (1998), 3: 31-62.

Cowen, Michael P & Shenton, Robert W.., The renewed search for social trusteeship: Cohen and Fitch on social justice and the city. Journal of historical sociology 11 (1998) : 1, 106-137.

Dibaja, Zuhair, Globalization: the last sky. The European Journal of Development Research 9 (1997): 1, 107-127. (also in Cristobal Kay, ed., Globalization, competitiveness, and human security. Frank Cass, 1997, 107-127.)

Gould, Jeremy, Localizing modernity: action, interests and association in rural Zambia. Diss. Transactions of the Finnish Anthropological Society 40, 1997.

Gould, Jeremy & Takala, Tuomas & Nokkala, Marko, How sectoral programs work: an analysis of education and agriculture sector programs in Zambia, Ethiopia, Mozambique and Nepal. Institute of Development Studies, Policy Papers 1, 1998.

Jerman, Helena, Between five lines: the development of ethnicity in Tanzania with special reference to the western Bagamoyo district. Diss. Transactions of the Finnish Anthropological Society 38, 1997.

Jerman, Helena, Dynamics of ethnicity - a case study from the Western Bagamoyo district in Tanzania. In M. A. Mohammed Salih and John Markakis, eds.., Ethnicity and the state in Eastern Africa. Nordiska Afrikainstititutet, 1998, 156-179.

Koponen, Juhani, Development for exploitation: German colonial policies in Mainland Tanzania, 1884-1914. Diss. Suomen historiallinen seura, Studia historica 49 & Studien zur Afrikanischen Geschichte 10, 1994.

Koponen, Juhani, Population - a dependent variable. In Maddox, Gregory & Giblin, James L. & Kimambo, Isaria N., eds., Custodians of the land. Environment and hunger in Tanzanian history. James Currey, 1996, 19-42.

Koponen, Juhani, The role of knowledge(s) in the making of Mtwara and Lindi. (With select bibliography on rural Mtwara and Lindi). In Seppälä, Pekka & Koda, Bertha, ed., The making of a periphery. Economic development and cultural encounters in southern Tanzania. Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Seminar Proceedings No. 32, 1998, 309-339.

Koponen, Juhani & Mattila-Wiro, Päivi, Effects or impacts? Synthesis study on evaluations and reviews commissioned by Finnida 1988 to mid-1995. Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Department for International Development Cooperation, Report of Evaluation Study, 1996: 1.

Kruse, Stein-Erik & Kyllönen, Timo & Ojanperä, Satu & Riddell, Roger C. & Veilajus, Jean-Louis (with assistance from Anthony Bebbington, Denise Humpreys and David Mansfield), Searching for impact and methods: NGO evaluation synthesis study. A Report prepared for

the OECD/DAC Expert Group on Evaluation. Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Department for International Development Cooperation, Report of Evaluation Study, November 1997: 2. (Volume II: Appendices, May 1997. Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Department for International Development Cooperation, Blue Series 1997: 9.) (also published in French together with 5 case studies written in French. Ministère des Affaires Etrangères de Finlande. Direction générale de la cooperation internationale et du développement, Rapport sur une Etude D’evaluation Novembre 1997:3.)

Kyllönen, Timo, Gunnar Myrdal, Asian Drama (1968) and development studies. In Pauli Kettunen and Hanna Eskola, eds., Models, modernity and the Myrdals. Renvall Institute Publications 8, 1997, 191-204.

Multanen, Pertti, Lähi-idän politiikan suunta. Nationalismista uskonnollisiin liikkeisiin. Ulkopolitiikka 1998: 4, 56-69.

Peltola, Pekka, The lost May Day: Namibian workers struggle for independence. Diss. Transactions of the Finnish Anthropological Society 36, 1995.

Raumolin, Jussi, EU ja globalisaatio : reunahuomautuksia ranskalaiseen ja saksalaiseen keskusteluun. Sitra, 1998.

Salokoski, Märta, For the birds or the kings? An analysis of the big-bird ritual and its relations to the consolidation of the kingship during the mid-1800s in the Owambo societies of northern Namibia. Institute of Development Studies, Working Paper 16/1998.

Seppälä, Pekka, Diversification and accumulation in rural Tanzania: anthropological perspectives on village economics. Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1998.

Seppälä, Pekka, The recovery of cashew production in southern Tanzania. In Seppälä, Pekka & Koda, Bertha, ed., The making of a periphery. Economic development and cultural encounters in southern Tanzania. Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Seminar Proceedings No. 32, 1998, pp. 118-135.

Vuola, Elina, Limits of liberation: praxis as method in Latin American liberation theology and feminist theology. Diss. Suomalaisen tiedeakatemian toimituksia, Sarja Humaniora 289, 1997.

Vuola, Elina, Valtion ja kirkon välissä: Nicaraguan naisten lisääntymisoikeudet ja -vääryydet. Kosmopolis 28 (1998): 4, 61-71.

Weiss, Holger, Banga-Banga: Stress und Krisen im Hausaland (Nord-Nigeria) im 19. Jahrhundert. Studien zur Afrikanischen Geschichte, Bd. 13, 1995.

Weiss, Holger, Relieving but not preventing - public famine relief in some British colonies in Africa up to 1930. Nordic Journal of African Studies 7 (1998): 1, 1-26.


Weiss, Holger, Babban yunwa: Hunger und Gesellschaft in Nord-Nigeria und den Nachbarregionen in der frühen Kolonialzeit. Diss. Suomen historiallinen seura, Bibliotheca historica 22, 1997.

Weiss, Holger, ‘Dying cattle’: A study of the impact of cattle epizootics in the central Sudan during the nineteenth century. Institute of Development Studies, Working Paper 15/1996. (to be published in African Economic History 1997.)