Newcastle University

Background

I have been at Newcastle University since 1992 when I joined as a lecturer in Geography. In 2002 I became a senior lecturer and then Professor of Development and the Environment in 2005. Prior to this I taught geography and history in a British School in Lima, Peru for three years.

Through British Council/DFID exchange programs I was able to teach in universities in Bolivia, Peru and Chile for more than a decade and on a separate fellowship at the University of Illinois in the USA. I have found these international experiences to be very enriching and am firmly committed to global forms of University education and knowledge exchange.

Roles and Responsibilities

Director Developing Areas Research Network (Newcastle, Northumbria and Durham Universities) (2005-2010)

Qualifications

• BA  Geography, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.
• MA Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
• PhD Geography, UCL, London, U.K.

Memberships

• Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG)
• Association of American Geographers
• Society of Latin American Studies
• Development Studies Association
• Secretary of the Women in Geography Study Group of the RGS-IBG (1995-9)
• Member of the RGS-IBG Slawson Postgraduate Award Panel (2005)

Honours and Awards

Queens University, Kingston, Canada. University Female Scholar Fellowship (2003)

University of Illinois University, Urbana-Champaign, USA. International Council Distinguished Scholar’s Programme, Visiting Professor of Development Geography (2002-3)

Research Interests

Gender and development, Latin America, social movements, neoliberalism, international volunteering.

I am a feminist development geographer concerned with the social inclusions and exclusions associated with development. I am interested in the relationship between culture and development in the broadest sense. My work conceptualises the relationship between identity formation and development policy in the context of shifting transnational donor and social movement networks and geographies. For some years now this work has involved examining neoliberalisation through a focus on professionalization, social movements and knowledge production. Part of this analysis explores how citizenship demands are mobilised when identity and development agendas intersect in diverse geographical and policy contexts. Empirically these interests have centred on four topics: gender and development, indigenous development, water privatisation and international volunteering.

Current Work

Most of my time is currently taken up with an ESRC research project ‘‘Post Trafficking Livelihoods in Nepal: Women, Sexuality and Citizenship” where I am collaborating with Newcastle colleagues, Diane Richardson and Janet Townsend, and Meena Poudel from the International Organization for Migration (IOM). This is a challenging project in many ways. With our project partners Shakti Samuha, an anti-trafficking NGO run by returnee trafficked women, we are working with policy makers locally and internationally to ensure that our project findings on livelihoods post trafficking feed into current citizenship debates and anti-trafficking strategies in Nepal and the wider South Asia region. (http://www.posttraffickingnepal.co.uk/)

I also have three other areas of on-going interest:

International volunteering: with Matt Baillie Smith at Northumbria University I have developed a portfolio of work building on a joint ESRC seminar series ‘Activism Volunteering and Citizneship’ with other colleagues at Northumbria, Newcastle and Edinburgh. This also includes a recently completed AHRC project on young Christian volunteers to Latin America also with Newcastle colleague Peter Hopkins and Besty Olson at Edinburgh (www.ycla.org.uk). Matt and I collaborate with Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) and are jointly supervising a PhD studentship at Northumbria on Diaspora Volunteering with VSO.

Negotiating new political spaces: exploring geographies of civil society politics in Latin America: This project with colleagues at Bergen University, Norway (Arnt Fløysand and Håvard Haarstad) and the Catholic University in Santiago, Chile (Jonathan Barton) funded by the Norwegian research council, examines the social movement demands around specific foreign direct investment industries, notably mining and gas in Bolivia and salmon and forestry in Chile. It builds on my interests in ethno-development, indigenous politics and natural resources in the Andess. (http://politicalspaces.b.uib.no/)

Forging identity under fire: Quechua music festivals and evangelical indigenous identities in Peru in the 1980/90s: researchers of ethno-development have traditionally focused on the politicisation of indigenous identities in the Andes in the 1990s through a focus on Bolivia and Ecuador, bypassing Peru where indigenous organising was seen to be weaker. This project examines the construction of indigenous Quechua identities in Apurimac, Peru an area greatly affected by the civil war. Archive work and oral histories form the basis of the research (see ‘finding yourself in the archives’ a commentary piece for the journal 'Geoforum').

Future Research

International volunteering in changing geopolitical and economic times

Research Roles

I have been/am on the editorial boards for:

• Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (2004-2007)
• Annals of the Association of American Geographers (2004-2011)
• Geoforum (from 2001 - present)

Postgraduate Supervision

Robert Ogle “The role of the church in the integration of Ecuadorian migrants to Spain” (MPhil)

Gisela Zapata "Migration, Remittances and Development: Constructing Colombian Migrants as Transnational Financial Subjects”

Youba Luintel "The political economy of the deepening food crisis in Nepal: a study on the nexus of global forces and local processes". PhD. Awarded 2011

Julián Perez "Water privatization and social resistance in Bolivia". MPhil. Awarded 2011

Jane Carnaffan "Gender, indigeneity and homestay tourism in Peru". PhD ESRC competition. Awarded 2010

Sa-Ngiam Boonpat "Tourism and local development: The case of Chiang Saen, Chiangrai, Thailand". PhD. Awarded 2010

Claire Furlong "How safe is our water: Perceived versus actual water quality as a barrier for the adoption of new water treatment technologies and water sources within communities in developing countries". PhD. Awarded 2010

Pablo Regalsky "Indigenous Territoriality and Decentralisation in Bolivia (1994-2003): Autonomies, municipalities, social differentiation and access to resources". PhD. Awarded 2008

Patricia Oliart “State reform and the resilient powers: teachers, school culture and the neoliberal education reform in Peru”. PhD. Awarded 2007 

Katherine Jenkins “Professional health promoters? Reconceptualising urban women's organising in Peru”. PhD ESRC competition. Awarded 2006

Patrcia Ocampo-Thomason “The use of local knowledge for the defence and sustainable management of mangrove ecosystems: the case of Ecuador”. PhD ESRC competition. Awarded 2006

Kate Simpson, “Broad horizons? Geographies and pedagogies of the gap year”. PhD ESRC competition. Awarded 2005

Ergül Ergün "Atölye Kizlari (workshop girls): a study of women’s labour in the export-oriented garment industry in Turkey". PhD. Awarded 2004 

Pablo Regalsky "Ethnicity and Class: the Bolivian state and Andean space management". MPhil. Awarded 2000

Victoria Buchanan “Gender and water in South Africa”. MPhil. Awarded 2000

Justine Coulson "Embodying development : a study of female flower workers in Ecuador". PhD. Awarded 1999

Maggie Anderson Torrico "Gender and neoliberalism in Bolivia with reference to street girls in Cochabamba". MPhil. Awarded 1997

Projects

• Catchment Management and Mining Impacts in Arid and Semi-Arid South America (CAMINAR)
  Project Leader(s): Professor Nina Laurie
• Constructing Citizenship and Livelihoods Post Sexual Trafficking in 'New' Nepal
  Project Leader(s): Professor Diane Richardson, Professor Nina Laurie
• Non-territorial Sovereignty and Unrecognised Statehood: The Political Geographies of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile
  Project Leader(s): Dr Fiona McConnell
• WATERLAT - Research Network on Governance & Citizenship in Water Management & Environmental Health with a Focus on Latin America
  Project Leader(s): Professor Jose Esteban Castro
• Youth transitions, international volunteering and religious transformations: the experiences of young evangelical Christians
  Project Leader(s): Dr Peter Hopkins

Undergraduate Teaching

Current courses
GEO3061: Ethno-development: Development with Identity

Past courses
GEO106: World Development?
GEO222: Introduction to Geographical Thought
GEO238: Cities & Social Change
GEO350: Latin America Social Movements

• Hopkins P, Baillie Smith M, Laurie N, Olson E. Youth, religion and transnational relationality: faith-based volunteering and the transition to adulthood. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 2012. In Preparation.
• Laurie N. Gender Water Networks: Femininity and Masculinity in Water Politics in Bolivia. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 2011, 35(1), 172-188.
• Baillie Smith M, Laurie N. International volunteering and development: global citizenship and neoliberal professionalisation today. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2011, 36(4), 545–559.
• BailleSmith M, Laurie N, Hopkins P, Olson E. International volunteering, faith and subjectivity: negotiating cosmopolitanism, citizenship and development. 2011. Submitted.
• Laurie N. Finding yourself in the archives and doing geographies of religion. Geoforum 2010, 41(2), 165-167.
• Andolina R, Laurie N, Radcliffe S. Indigenous Development in the Andes Culture, Power and Transnationalism. Raleigh, Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.
• Hopkins P, Baillie-Smith M, Laurie N, Olson E. Jovenes cristianos en America Latina: Las experiencias de jovenes cristianos que participan como voluntarios internacionales en proyectos de inspiracion religiosa en America Latina. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Newcastle University, 2010.
• Poudel M, Laurie N, Richardson D, Townsend J. Posttrafficking in Nepal. Global Eye on HumanTrafficking 2010, (9), 7.
• Larner W, Laurie N. Travelling technocrats, embodied knowledges: Globalising privatisation in telecoms and water. Geoforum 2010, 41(2), 218-226.
• Laurie ND. Gender/family and household in Latin America.. In: Essed P; Golberg D; Kobayashi A, ed. A Companion to Gender Studies. Oxford: Blackwell, 2009, pp. 381-391.
• Richardson D, Poudel M, Laurie N. Sexual trafficking in Nepal: constructing citizenship and livelihoods. Gender, Place and Culture 2009, 16(3), 259-278.
• Regalsky P, Laurie ND. Communities struggle with the state for control of indigenous schools in Bolivia. 2008. Available at: http://www.id21.org/education/e2pr1g1.html.
• Mannarelli M, Laurie ND, Oliart P, Richardson D. Desarrollo rural y sexualidad : reflexiones comparativas [Rural Development and Sexuality: Comparative Reflections]. Lima, Peru: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2008.
• Regalsky P, Laurie N. 'The school, whose place is this'? The deep structures of the hidden curriculum in indigenous education in Bolivia. Comparative Education 2007, 43(2), 231-251.
• Laurie N, Crespo C. Deconstructing the best case scenario: lessons from water politics in La Paz-El Alto, Bolivia. Geoforum 2007, 38(5), 841-854.
• Laurie N. Introduction: How to dialogue for pro-poor water. Geoforum 2007, 38(5), 753-755.
• Radcliffe S, Laurie N. Culture and development: Taking culture seriously in development for Andean indigenous people. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2006, 24(2), 231-248.
• Laurie ND, Calla P. Desarrollo, poscolonialismo y teoría política. In: Laurie N; Pozo ME, ed. Las Displiciencias de Género las cruces del siglo pasado al nuevo milenio en Bolivia. Cochabamba, Bolivia: CESU, San Simón University Press, 2006, pp. 17-50.
• Laurie ND. Establishing development orthodoxy: negotiating masculinities in the water sector. In: Jacobsen F; McNeish JA, ed. From Where Life Flows: The everyday life of water politics in the Andes. Trondheim: Tapir Akademisk Farlag, 2006, pp. 91-112.
• Radcliffe S, Laurie ND, Andolina R. Género y etnodesarrollo en los Andes. In: Laurie ND; Pozo ME, ed. Las Displiciencias de Género las cruces del siglo pasado al nuevo milenio en Bolivia. Cochabamba, Bolivia.: CESU, San Simón University Press, 2006, pp. 51-96.
• Radcliffe S, Laurie ND. Indigenous groups, culturally appropriate development, and the socio-spatial fix of Andean Development. In: Sarah Radcliffe, ed. Culture and Development in a Globalising World. London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 83-106.
• Laurie ND, Pozo ME. Introduccion. In: Laurie ND; Pozo ME, ed. Las Displiciencias de Género las cruces del siglo pasado al nuevo milenio en Bolivia. Cochabamba, Bolivia: CESU, San Simón University Press, 2006, pp. 11-16.
• Laurie ND. La ortodoxia y el desarrollo: Masculinidades y la guerra del agua en Cochabamba in Laurie. In: Laurie ND; Pozo ME, ed. Las Displiciencias de Género las cruces del siglo pasado al nuevo milenio en Bolivia. Cochabamba, Bolivia.: CESU, San Simón University Press,, 2006, pp. 203-237.
• Laurie ND, Pozo ME, ed. Las Displicencias de Genero en los Cruces del Siglo Pasado Al Milenio en los Andes. Cochabamba, Bolivia: CESU-UMSS, 2006.
• Laurie ND. ‘Putting the messiness back in: towards a geography of development as creativity. A commentary on J.K. Gibson-Grahams ‘Surplus Possibilities: post development and Community Economies. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 2005, 26(1), 32-35.
• Andolina R, Radcliffe S, Laurie N. Development and culture: Transnational identity making in Bolivia. Political Geography 2005, 24(6), 678-702.
• Kothari U, Laurie N. Different bodies, same clothes: An agenda for local consumption and global identities. Area 2005, 37(2), 223-227.
• Laurie N. Establishing development orthodoxy: Negotiating masculinities in the water sector. Development and Change 2005, 36(3), 527-549.
• Laurie N, Andolina R, Radcliffe S. Ethnodevelopment: Social movements, creating experts and professionalising indigenous knowledge in ecuador. Antipode 2005, 37(3), 470-495.
• Bondi L, Laurie ND. Introduction. Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism: Activism, Professionalisation and Incorporation. Antipode 2005, 37(3), 393-401.
• Bondi L, Laurie N. Working the spaces of neoliberalism: Activism, professionalisation and incorporation - Introduction. Antipode 2005. , 37(3), 394-401.
• Laurie ND, Crespo C, Ledo C. Barriers to and conditions for the involvement of private capital and enterprise in water supply and sanitation in Latin America and Africa: Seeking economic, social, and environmental sustainability. Oxford: University of Oxford, 2004. European Commission, Fifth Framework Programme, INCO-DEV.
• Laurie ND. Dams. In: Pile S; Thrift N, ed. Patterned Ground: Ecologies and Geographies of Nature and Culture. London: Reaktion, 2004, pp. 157-159.
• Laurie ND, Calla P. Development, postcolonialism and feminist political geography.. In: Peake L; Staeheli L; Koffman E, ed. Mapping Women, Making Politics: Feminist Perspectives on Political Geography. London: Routledge, 2004, pp. 99-112.
• Laurie N. The politics of publishing and print. Geoforum 2004. , 35(2), 141-142.
• Radcliffe SA, Laurie N, Andolina R. The transnationalization of gender and reimagining Andean indigenous development. Signs 2004, 29(2), 387-416.
• Laurie ND, Crespo C. An examination of the changing contexts for developing pro-poor water initiatives via concessions. 2003. DFID SSR Project R7895.
• Laurie N, Andolina R, Radcliffe S. Indigenous professionalization: Transnational social reproduction in the andes. Antipode 2003, 35(3), 463-490.
• Laurie ND, Bonnett A. Adjusting to equity: The contradictions of neoliberalism and the search for racial equality in Peru. Antipode 2002, 34(1), 28-53.
• Radcliffe S, Andolina R, Laurie ND. Production of states and deterritorialised spaces: indigenous movements and transnational linkages in the Andes. Space and Polity 2002, 6(3), 289-305.
• Laurie ND, Radcliffe S, Andolina R. The new excluded 'indigenous'?: The implications of multi-ethnic policies for water reform in Bolivia. In: Seider R, ed. Multiculturalism in Latin America; Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002, pp. 252-276.
• Laurie ND. Gender and geography: doing more than just surviving. In: Zapata Martelo E; Vázquez García V; Manzanares P, ed. Gender, feminism and higher education: an international overview / Género, feminismo y educación superior: una visión internacional. Montecillo, México: Colegio de Posgraduados, Especialidad en Estudios del Desarollo Rural, Instituto de Socioeconomía, Estadística e Informática, 2001, pp. 345-356.
• Marvin S, Laurie N, Napier M. Pre-payment: emerging pathways to water services. Third World Planning Review 2001, 23(2), 213-221.
• Clark F, Laurie ND. Gender, age and exclusion a challenge to Lima's community organisations. Gender and Development 2000, 8(2), 80-88.
• Marvin S, Laurie N. An emerging logic of urban water management, Cochabamba, Bolivia. Urban Studies 1999, 36(2), 341-357.
• Laurie ND, Dwyer C, Holloway S, Smith F, ed. Geographies of new femininities. Harlow: Longman, 1999.
• Laurie ND, Marvin S. Globalisation, neo-liberalism and negotiated development in the Andes: Bolivian water and the Misicuni dream. 31,. Environment and Planning A 1999, 31(8), 1401-1415.
• Laurie ND. Negotiating feminities in the 'provinces'.Women and emergency employment in Peru.. Environment and Planning A 1999, 31(2), 229-250.
• Laurie ND. Nimble fingers/manual dexterity'; 'world, First, Second, Third and Fourth'; United Nations; International Women's Day, Year; 'structural adjustment.. In The Feminist Geography Glossary (eds. L. McDowell and J. Sharp). London: Arnold. pp 185, 298-299, 137-138, 283-284, 265. 1999.
• Laurie N. State-backed work programmes and the regendering of work in Peru: Negotiating femininity in 'the provinces'. Environment and Planning A 1999, 31(2), 229-250.
• Laurie ND. From work to welfare: feminisation and the Peruvian state.. Political Geography 1997, 16(8), 691-714.
• Laurie N. Negotiating femininity: Women and representation in emergency employment in Peru. Gender, Place and Culture 1997, 4(2), 235-251.