Learning/volunteer abroad programmes provide opportunities for cross-cultural understanding, partnership-building, and cooperative development, but there are also significant structural challenges and inequality of opportunity issues that result from these partnerships between host organizations in the Global South and learning/volunteer abroad for development (LVA4D) participants from the Global North.  Meer

Discussion over celebrity engagement is often limited to theoretical critique or normative name-calling, without much grounded research into what it is that celebrities are doing, the same or differently throughout the world.  Meer

Africans living in the diaspora have a unique position as potential agents of change in helping to address Africa’s political and socioeconomic challenges.  Meer

This book explores the complex relationship between energy and development and discusses the core issues and concepts surrounding this growing area of research and policy.  Meer