Lisa Ann Richey

PhD, Political Science Professor International Development Studies Department of Society and Globalisation Roskilde University Personal web site

Expertise

I am currently writing a book manuscript entitled Brand Aid: Celebrities, Consumption and Development together with Stefano Ponte. I work in the political economy of culture where I am interested in representation and citizenship and global governance of local health. I teach and supervise graduate students in development studies and global studies.

Selected projects and programmes

Brand Aid: Celebrities, Consumption and Development (book project co-authored with Stefano Ponte—a political economy of culture examining Product (RED), branding, aid, consumption and celebrity.)
The Politics of Access to AntiRetrovirals for the Treatment of African AIDS (Danish Development Research Council (Forskningsrådet for Udviklingsforskning, 2004-2009, Uganda and South Africa).
Gendering the Therapeutic Citizen (how does AIDS treatment redefine concepts of citizenship within Ugandan and South African clinics?).

Selected publications

Lisa Ann Richey: Population Politics and Development: From the Policies to the Clinics (2008) Palgrave MacMillan: New York and London.
Lisa Ann Richey: “‘Boundary Work’ in the Provision of AIDS Treatment in South Africa: Science, Denial and Politics” New Political Science, 30,1: 1-21 (2008).
Lisa Ann Richey and Stefano Ponte: “Better RED Than Dead? From ‘Band Aid’ to ‘Brand Aid’ “, Third World Quarterly, (forthcoming 2008).
Lisa Ann Richey: Gendering the Therapeutic Citizen in Reproduction, Globalization and the State. Carole H. Browner and Carolyn F. Sargent, eds. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press (forthcoming 2008).
Thomas Molony, Lisa Ann Richey, and Stefano Ponte: “‘Darwin’s Nightmare’: A Critical Assessment” Review of African Political Economy. No. 113. Pp. 591-608 (2007).
“The Rock Man’s Burden? Product (RED), Celebrities and Women at the Frontier of Development Assistance in The Fourth Wave: An Assault on Women. Gender, Culture and HIV in the 21st Century. Social Science Research Council-UNESCO volume, Vinh-Kim Nguyen and Jennifer F. Klot, eds. (forthcoming 2008).