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Department of Management, Society and Communication
- CBS Sustainability Centre
- Centre for Business and Development Studies (CBDS)

I am American with a US education, but I have worked for nearly two decades in Denmark. Trained as a political scientist from a top 10 American political science department, I have over 20 years of work on values and international politics of humanitarianism. My research draws on the disciplines of political science, anthropology, geography, social theory and media studies. I work unequally well in English, Danish, Italian and Swahili. From global population policy to Ben Affleck’s work in Congo, I have examined the relationships between global values and local practices of ‘humanitarianism’ in five research programs. I have spent a total of 51 months doing fieldwork in Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, and Democratic Republic of Congo), and have also been involved in research capacity building partnerships.
I have been a Visiting Professor at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University in the US (2017-18) and at the Department of Sociology and International Relations at the University of Trento in Italy (2014).
- international aid and humanitarian politics
- the aid business and commodification of causes
- new transnational actors and alliances in the Global South
- development theories and representations
- global health, gender and intersectionality
at CBS:
Globalisering-Localisering
Brand Aid: Cause-Related Marketing, Celebrity Humanitarianism and Ethical Consumption
I am interested in supervising academically ambitious students working on Brand Aid and other forms of cause-marketing, North-South relations, the aid business, SDGs, humanitarianism, Africa, commodification, and ethical consumption. My strengths are interdisciplinary rigor, linking empirical analysis with critical theory and non-traditional ethnography.
I have supervised 11 PhD students from 6 different nationalities, and over 60 Masters Theses.
Richey, L.A. and L. Chouliaraki, eds. (forthcoming 2018) Everyday Humanitarianism: Ethics, Affects and Practices. Special Issue of New Political Science.
Richey, L.A., ed. (2015) Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, Place and Power, New York and Milton Park, UK: Routledge.
Richey, L.A. and S. Ponte (2011) Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Richey, L.A. and Christiansen, L.B. (2018) “Afropolitanism, Celebrity Politics and Iconic Imaginations of North-South Relations” African Affairs. 117(467): 238-260.
Richey, L.A. (2016) “Tinder Humanitarians’: the moral panic around representations of old relationships in new media” Javnost-the Public. 23(4): 398-414.
In: The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Philanthropy and Humanitarianism . ed. /Katharyne Mitchell; Polly Pallister-Wilkins. Abingdon : Routledge 2023, p. 209-222
In: The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Philanthropy and Humanitarianism. ed. /Katharyne Mitchell; Polly Pallister-Wilkins. Abingdon : Routledge 2023, p. 292-304
In: Review of International Studies, Vol. 49, No. 3, 7.2023, p. 390-403
In: Public Anthropologist, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2022, p. 21-50
In: Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication. ed. /Lilie Chouliaraki; Anne Vestergaard. Abingdon : Routledge 2022, p. 266-284
Paper presented at Imaginaries, 2022
Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press 2021, 299 p.
In: World Development, Vol. 143, 7.2021
In: New Political Science, Vol. 43, No. 4, 12.2021, p. 421-450
In: World Development, Vol. 141, 5.2021
Frederiksberg : Centre for Business and Development Studies 2021, 39 p. (CBDS Working Paper, No. 2021/2)
In: Conservation and Society, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2021, p. 199-201
In: World Development, Vol. 145, 2021, 4 p.
In: Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 18, No. 1, 3.2020, p. 43-59
In: Annual Review of Environment and the Resources, Vol. 45, 10.2020, p. 387-410
Frederiksberg : Centre for Business and Development Studies 2020, 14 p. (CBDS Research Briefing, No. 1/2020)
In: Dialogues in Human Geography, Vol. 9, No. 1, 3.2019, p. 78–82
In: New Media and Society, Vol. 21, No. 9, 9.2019, p. 1928-1946
www 16.10.2019
In: International Affairs, Vol. 95, No. 2, 3.2019, p. 488–489
In: Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 2, 23.5.2018, p. 260-286
In: African Affairs, Vol. 117, No. 467, 4.2018, p. 238-260
In: New Political Science, Vol. 40, No. 4, 12.2018, p. 625-639
In: Third World Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 9, 22.5.2017, p. 1952-1972
In: New Political Science, Vol. 39, No. 2, International Research Conference on Everyday Humanitarianism, 2017, p. 314-316
In: Javnost - The Public, Vol. 23, No. 4, 24.11.2016, p. 398-414
In: Oxford Handbooks Online: Scholarly Research Reviews. : Oxford University Press 2016, p. 1-22
In: Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, Vol. 7, No. 1, 25.3.2016, p. 27-46
In: SPECTRA-The Apect Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2016, 14 p.
In: World Yearbook of Education 2016: The Global Education Industry. . ed. /Antoni Verger; Christopher Lubienski; Gita Steiner-Khamsi. New York and London : Routledge 2015, p. 90-104
Milton Park and New York : Routledge 2015, 239 p. (Rethinking Development)
In: Celebrity Studies, Vol. 6, No. 4, 2015, p. 505-518
In: Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, Place and Power. . ed. /Lisa Ann Richey. Milton Park and New York : Routledge 2015, p. 1-24 (Rethinking Development)
New York and London : Routledge 2015, 206 p. (Thirdworlds)
In: Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 43, No. 4, 2014, p. 514-516
In: Third World Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 1, 16.2.2014, p. 1-21
In: Forum for Development Studies, Vol. 41, No. 3, 28.10.2014, p. 551-563
In: International Political Sociology, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2013, p. 92-93
Paper presented at 54th ISA Annual Convention, 2013
Paper presented at 54th ISA Annual Convention, 2013
In: Sahara J, Vol. 10, No. 3-4, 2013
In: Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 39, No. 131, 3.2012, p. 135-150
Paper presented at 53rd ISA Annual Convention, 2012
In: Development and Change, Vol. 43, No. 4, 7.2012, p. 823-845
In: SAGE Encyclopedia of Global Studies. ed. /Helmut Anheier; Mark Juergensmeyer. : SAGE Publications 2012
In: Nordicom Review, Vol. 33, No. Special issue 1, 2012, p. 29-43
In: Journal of Progressive Human Services, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2012, p. 187-207
In: Gendered Insecurities, Health and African Development. ed. /Amal Fadlalla; Howard Stein. : Routledge 2012, p. 50-71 (Routledge Studies in Development Economics)
In: Reproduction, Globalization, and the State. ed. /Carole H. Browner; Carolyn F. Sargent. Durham NC : Duke University Press 2011, p. 68-82
: University of Minnesota Press 2011, 272 p.
In: African Affairs, Vol. 110, No. 441, 22.8.2011, p. 670-672
Paper presented at 2nd LOST Conference “Bodies and Bodiliness in Africa”, 2010
In: International Handbook on Gender and Poverty. ed. /Sylvia Chant. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2010, p. 504-509
In: African Studies Review, Vol. 53, No. 3, 2010, p. 170-171
Paper presented at ASAUK Biennial Conference 2010, 2010
In: Politiken, 25.2.2010
Paper presented at LSE local-global workshop, 2010
In: Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender and Health in Neo-Liberal Times. . ed. /Mohan Rao; Sarah Sexton. : SAGE Publications 2010
Paper presented at Årsmøde Dansk Selskab for Statskundskab, 2010
Paper presented at Health: A New Religious Awakening in Western Societies , 2010
Paper presented at Violence, Intervention and Knowledge: Researching Victimhood with Civil Society, 2010
Paper presented at Visual Securitization - A CAST Research Seminar, 2010
In: Between Life and Death: Governing Populations in the Era of Human Rights. . ed. /Sabine Berking; Magdalena Zolkos. Frankfurt : Peter Lang 2009
In: Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 36, No. 119, 2009, p. 145-146
In: Kvinder, Køn og Forskning, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2008, p. 86-89
Copenhagen : Dansk Center for Internationale Studier og Menneskerettigheder 2008, 54 p., p. 1
In: Demographic Research, Vol. 18, No. 17, 2008, p. 469-498
New York and London : Palgrave Macmillan 2008, 269 p.
In: The Fourth Wave: Gender, Culture and HIV in the 21st Century. . ed. /Jennifer Klot; Vinh-Kim Nguyen. WWW : Social Science Research Council 2008
In: New Political Science, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2008, p. 1-21
In: Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 34, No. 113, 2007, p. 598-608
In: Tidsskriftet Politik, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2007, p. 79-80
In: Development Policy Review, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2007, p. 71-90
Kø'benhavn : Dansk Center for Internationale Studier og Menneskerettigheder 2006, 33 p.
South Africa : University of Cape Town 2006
In: African Journal of AIDS Research, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2005, p. 83-90
København : Dansk Center for Internationale Studier og Menneskerettigheder 2004, 55 p. (C D R Working Paper, No. 19, Vol. 2004)
In: Feminist Review, Vol. 78, No. 1, 2004
In: World Development, Vol. 32, No. 6, 2004, p. 923-940
In: Reproductive Health Matters, Vol. 11, No. 22, 2003, p. 30-35
Roskilde : Roskilde Universitet 2003 (C D R Working Paper, No. 8, Vol. 2003)
In: Rethinking policy and conceptualizing practice. ed. /Frances Vavrus; Lisa Ann Richey. New York : Feminist Press at The City University of New York 2003, p. 6-18 (Women's Studies Quarterly, No. 31)
New York : Feminist Press at The City University of New York 2003
In: Review of African Political Economy, No. 96, 2003, p. 273-292
: Amnesty International 2022
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New York, NY : Africa Is a Country 15.12.2022
Parkville : The Conversation Media Group 28.9.2021
Parkville : The Conversation Media Group 30.11.2021
In: Berlingske, 17.6.2021, p. 24-25
In: Ræson, 22.2.2021
Philadelphia : TFL Media, Inc. 1.12.2021
New York : Mansueto Ventures LLC 7.12.2021
Frederiksberg : CBS Wire 21.6.2021
Sheffield : University of Sheffield 28.8.2020
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In: Information, 9.2.2011
In: Information, 24.11.2010, p. 18
In: Magasinet - Folkekirkens Nødhjælp, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2010, p. 20
In: Information, 6.6.2009
In: Årsberetning 2008Roskilde : Roskilde Universitet 2009, p. 115 (Årsberetning. Roskilde Universitet, Vol. 2008)
In: Information, 2008, p. 12
In: Information, 28.9.2006, p. 16-17
In: The Guardian, 2006, p. 12
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