lrimsc

Department of Management, Society and Communication

  • Centre for Business and Development Studies (CBDS)
  • Centre for Sustainability
Lisa Ann
Richey
Professor


Room: DH.Ø.2.36
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E-mail: lri.msc@cbs.dk
Lisa Ann Richey
Presentation

I am American with a US education, but I have worked for over 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 development, humanitarianism, and international politics. 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 in total almost four years 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 Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (2024), the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University in the US (2017-18) and the Department of Sociology and International Relations at the University of Trento in Italy (2014).

Feel free to explore my work, and don't hesitate to reach out with any questions.

Primary research areas
  • 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
Curriculum Vitae
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Courses

Governance and Development (MSc in Business, Language, and Culture)

Supervision

I am interested in supervising academically ambitious students working on business partnerships in humanitarianism and development, 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 14 PhD students from 8 different nationalities, and approximately 70 Masters Theses.

Selected publications

Ølgaard, D.M. and L.A. Richey (2024). “Swiping to end hunger: The problematic politics of humanitarian donation apps” International Affairs. Volume 100, Issue 4, July 2024, Pages 1451–1470, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae136

Richey, L.A. (2024) “Why Does Capitalism Feel So Right? Ethical Imaginaries of Prison Labor and Sisterhood Solidarity” Economy and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2024.2321778

Sulley, C.R. and L.A. Richey (2023) “The messy practice of decolonising a concept: Everyday humanitarianism in Tanzania” Review of International Studies 49: 3, 390–403. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210523000189

Henriksen, S. and L.A. Richey (2022) "Google’s Tech Philanthropy: Capitalism and Humanitarianism in the Digital Age", Public Anthropologist, 4(1), 21-50. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/25891715-bja10030

Budabin, A.C. and L.A. Richey (2021) Batman Saves the Congo: Business, Disruption and the Politics of Development, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (nominated for the ISA GDS book prize and Hedley Bull Award from ECPR).

Richey, L.A., L.E. Gissel, O.L. Kweka, P. Bærendtsen, P. Kragelund, H.Q. Hambati, A. Mwamfupe (2021) ”South-South Humanitarianism: The Case of Covid-Organics in Tanzania” World Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105375

Richey, L.A. (2018) “Conceptualizing Everyday Humanitarianism: Ethics, Affects and Practices
of Contemporary Global Helping,” New Political Science, 40 (4): 625-639. https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2018.1528538

Richey, L.A. and S. Ponte (2011) Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/brand-aid

Publications List
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2024
Lisa Ann Richey / Why Does Capitalism Feel So Right? : Ethical Imaginaries of Prison Labour and Sisterhood Solidarity.
In: Economy and Society, Vol. 53, No. 2, 5.2024, p. 250-274
Journal article > peer review
2023
Lisa Ann Richey / Celebrity : A Key Concept for Understanding the Power of "Helping".
In: The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Philanthropy and Humanitarianism . ed. /Katharyne Mitchell; Polly Pallister-Wilkins. Abingdon : Routledge 2023, p. 209-222
Book chapter > peer review
Polly Pallister-Wilkins; Elisa Pascucci; Lisa Ann Richey; James Smith; Lewis Turner; Tammam Aloudat; William Plowright / Humanitarian Futures
In: The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Philanthropy and Humanitarianism. ed. /Katharyne Mitchell; Polly Pallister-Wilkins. Abingdon : Routledge 2023, p. 292-304
Book chapter > peer review
Consolata Raphael Sulley; Lisa Ann Richey / The Messy Practice of Decolonising a Concept : Everyday Humanitarianism in Tanzania.
In: Review of International Studies, Vol. 49, No. 3, 7.2023, p. 390-403
Journal article > peer review
2022
Sofie Elbæk Henriksen; Lisa Ann Richey / Google's Tech Philanthropy : Capitalism and Humanitarianism in the Digital Age.
In: Public Anthropologist, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2022, p. 21-50
Journal article > peer review
Lisa Ann Richey; Stefano Ponte / Humanitarianism and Corporate Branding : The Case of Brand Aid.
In: Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication. ed. /Lilie Chouliaraki; Anne Vestergaard. Abingdon : Routledge 2022, p. 266-284
Book chapter > peer review
Lisa Ann Richey / Why Does Capitalism Feel so Right? : Ethical Imaginaries of Prison Labor and Sisterhood Solidarity.
Paper presented at Imaginaries, 2022
Paper
2021
Alexandra Cosima Budabin; Lisa Ann Richey / Batman Saves the Congo : How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development.
Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press 2021, 299 p.
Book > peer review
Lisa Ann Richey; Stefano Ponte / Brand Aid and Coffee Value Chain Development Interventions : Is Starbucks Working Aid Out of Business?.
In: World Development, Vol. 143, 7.2021
Journal article > peer review
Maha Rafi Atal; Lisa Ann Richey / Commodifying COVID-19 : Humanitarian Communication at the Onset of a Global Pandemic.
In: New Political Science, Vol. 43, No. 4, 12.2021, p. 421-450
Journal article > peer review
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