Mr Daniel Wroe
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Research Student | D dot Wroe at uea dot ac dot uk |
Biography
I am an ESRC funded postgraduate researcher in the school of International Development at the University of East Anglia. I completed my BA and masters degrees at the school in 2010 and 2011 respectively. My studies have focused on the economics, society and politics of Malawi in Southern Africa. My interest in Malawi developed during 5 months spent facilitating HIV/AIDs awareness courses there in 2007. I have returned to Malawi twice since and will be conducting fieldwork in the country for a year from May 2012.
CV and Experience
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Key Research Interests
Social development; civil society; Christianity; state; government; politics; Africa; Malawi.
Research
My research looks at politics in Malawi. I want to try to understand the ideas, idioms and discourses that structure how Malawians approach day-to-day decisions about power and resources. Literature on political life in Malawi often explains people’s agency in the terms of a single discourse- liberal rights or Christian moralities for example. My research adopts an ethnographic approach that allows people to explain the relevance of their actions as they see it rather than assuming those actions are a performance of a particular discourse. I am under the supervision of Dr. Ben Jones and Prof. Janet Seeley and I will be conducting my fieldwork in Malawi for a year from May 2012. I hope to complete my thesis in September 2014.
Publications
Wroe, D. 2012. Donors, Dependency and Political Crisis in Malawi. African Affairs, 111 (442), pp. 135-144.
