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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.
I: The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Philanthropy and Humanitarianism . red. /Katharyne Mitchell; Polly Pallister-Wilkins. Abingdon : Routledge 2023, s. 209-222
I: The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Philanthropy and Humanitarianism. red. /Katharyne Mitchell; Polly Pallister-Wilkins. Abingdon : Routledge 2023, s. 292-304
I: Public Anthropologist, Vol. 4, Nr. 1, 2022, s. 21-50
I: Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication. red. /Lilie Chouliaraki; Anne Vestergaard. Abingdon : Routledge 2022, s. 266-284
Paper presented at Imaginaries, 2022
Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press 2021, 299 s.
I: World Development, Vol. 143, 7.2021
I: New Political Science, Vol. 43, Nr. 4, 12.2021, s. 421-450
I: World Development, Vol. 141, 5.2021
Frederiksberg : Centre for Business and Development Studies 2021, 39 s. (CBDS Working Paper, Nr. 2021/2)
I: Conservation and Society, Vol. 19, Nr. 3, 2021, s. 199-201
I: World Development, Vol. 145, 2021, 4 s.
I: Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 18, Nr. 1, 3.2020, s. 43-59
I: Annual Review of Environment and the Resources, Vol. 45, 10.2020, s. 387-410
Frederiksberg : Centre for Business and Development Studies 2020, 14 s. (CBDS Research Briefing, Nr. 1/2020)
I: Dialogues in Human Geography, Vol. 9, Nr. 1, 3.2019, s. 78–82
I: New Media and Society, Vol. 21, Nr. 9, 9.2019, s. 1928-1946
www 16.10.2019
I: International Affairs, Vol. 95, Nr. 2, 3.2019, s. 488–489
I: Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 40, Nr. 2, 23.5.2018, s. 260-286
I: African Affairs, Vol. 117, Nr. 467, 4.2018, s. 238-260
I: New Political Science, Vol. 40, Nr. 4, 12.2018, s. 625-639
I: Third World Quarterly, Vol. 38, Nr. 9, 22.5.2017, s. 1952-1972
I: New Political Science, Vol. 39, Nr. 2, International Research Conference on Everyday Humanitarianism, 2017, s. 314-316
I: Javnost - The Public, Vol. 23, Nr. 4, 24.11.2016, s. 398-414
I: Oxford Handbooks Online: Scholarly Research Reviews. : Oxford University Press 2016, s. 1-22
I: Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, Vol. 7, Nr. 1, 25.3.2016, s. 27-46
I: SPECTRA-The Apect Journal, Vol. 5, Nr. 2, 2016, 14 s.
I: World Yearbook of Education 2016: The Global Education Industry. . red. /Antoni Verger; Christopher Lubienski; Gita Steiner-Khamsi. New York and London : Routledge 2015, s. 90-104
Milton Park and New York : Routledge 2015, 239 s. (Rethinking Development)
I: Celebrity Studies, Vol. 6, Nr. 4, 2015, s. 505-518
I: Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, Place and Power. . red. /Lisa Ann Richey. Milton Park and New York : Routledge 2015, s. 1-24 (Rethinking Development)
New York and London : Routledge 2015, 206 s. (Thirdworlds)
I: Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 43, Nr. 4, 2014, s. 514-516
I: Third World Quarterly, Vol. 35, Nr. 1, 16.2.2014, s. 1-21
I: Forum for Development Studies, Vol. 41, Nr. 3, 28.10.2014, s. 551-563
I: International Political Sociology, Vol. 7, Nr. 1, 2013, s. 92-93
Paper presented at 54th ISA Annual Convention, 2013
Paper presented at 54th ISA Annual Convention, 2013
I: Sahara J, Vol. 10, Nr. 3-4, 2013
I: Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 39, Nr. 131, 3.2012, s. 135-150
Paper presented at 53rd ISA Annual Convention, 2012
I: Development and Change, Vol. 43, Nr. 4, 7.2012, s. 823-845
I: SAGE Encyclopedia of Global Studies. red. /Helmut Anheier; Mark Juergensmeyer. : SAGE Publications 2012
I: Nordicom Review, Vol. 33, Nr. Special issue 1, 2012, s. 29-43
I: Journal of Progressive Human Services, Vol. 23, Nr. 3, 2012, s. 187-207
I: Gendered Insecurities, Health and African Development. red. /Amal Fadlalla; Howard Stein. : Routledge 2012, s. 50-71 (Routledge Studies in Development Economics)
I: Reproduction, Globalization, and the State. red. /Carole H. Browner; Carolyn F. Sargent. Durham NC : Duke University Press 2011, s. 68-82
: University of Minnesota Press 2011, 272 s.
I: African Affairs, Vol. 110, Nr. 441, 22.8.2011, s. 670-672
Paper presented at 2nd LOST Conference “Bodies and Bodiliness in Africa”, 2010
I: International Handbook on Gender and Poverty. red. /Sylvia Chant. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2010, s. 504-509
I: African Studies Review, Vol. 53, Nr. 3, 2010, s. 170-171
Paper presented at ASAUK Biennial Conference 2010, 2010
I: Politiken, 25.2.2010
Paper presented at LSE local-global workshop, 2010
I: Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender and Health in Neo-Liberal Times. . red. /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
I: Between Life and Death: Governing Populations in the Era of Human Rights. . red. /Sabine Berking; Magdalena Zolkos. Frankfurt : Peter Lang 2009
I: Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 36, Nr. 119, 2009, s. 145-146
I: Kvinder, Køn og Forskning, Vol. 17, Nr. 3, 2008, s. 86-89
Copenhagen : Dansk Center for Internationale Studier og Menneskerettigheder 2008, 54 s., s. 1
I: Demographic Research, Vol. 18, Nr. 17, 2008, s. 469-498
New York and London : Palgrave Macmillan 2008, 269 s.
I: The Fourth Wave: Gender, Culture and HIV in the 21st Century. . red. /Jennifer Klot; Vinh-Kim Nguyen. WWW : Social Science Research Council 2008
I: New Political Science, Vol. 30, Nr. 1, 2008, s. 1-21
I: Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 34, Nr. 113, 2007, s. 598-608
I: Tidsskriftet Politik, Vol. 10, Nr. 1, 2007, s. 79-80
I: Development Policy Review, Vol. 25, Nr. 1, 2007, s. 71-90
Kø'benhavn : Dansk Center for Internationale Studier og Menneskerettigheder 2006, 33 s.
South Africa : University of Cape Town 2006
I: African Journal of AIDS Research, Vol. 4, Nr. 2, 2005, s. 83-90
København : Dansk Center for Internationale Studier og Menneskerettigheder 2004, 55 s. (C D R Working Paper, Nr. 19, Vol. 2004)
I: Feminist Review, Vol. 78, Nr. 1, 2004
I: World Development, Vol. 32, Nr. 6, 2004, s. 923-940
I: Reproductive Health Matters, Vol. 11, Nr. 22, 2003, s. 30-35
Roskilde : Roskilde Universitet 2003 (C D R Working Paper, Nr. 8, Vol. 2003)
I: Rethinking policy and conceptualizing practice. red. /Frances Vavrus; Lisa Ann Richey. New York : Feminist Press at The City University of New York 2003, s. 6-18 (Women's Studies Quarterly, Nr. 31)
New York : Feminist Press at The City University of New York 2003
I: Review of African Political Economy, Nr. 96, 2003, s. 273-292
: Amnesty International 2022
: New Books Network 2022
: Africa Is a Country 15.12.2022
Parkville : The Conversation Media Group 28.9.2021
Parkville : The Conversation Media Group 30.11.2021
I: Berlingske, 17.6.2021, s. 24-25
I: 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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I: Information, 24.11.2010, s. 18
I: Magasinet - Folkekirkens Nødhjælp, Vol. 10, Nr. 1, 2010, s. 20
I: Information, 6.6.2009
I: Årsberetning 2008Roskilde : Roskilde Universitet 2009, s. 115 (Årsberetning. Roskilde Universitet, Vol. 2008)
I: Information, 2008, s. 12
I: Information, 28.9.2006, s. 16-17
I: The Guardian, 2006, s. 12
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