BA (Hons) Leeds University; Ph.D Social Anthropology/Sociology, Manchester University; Dr. Honoris Causa, Universidad Nacional del Centro del Peru, Facultad de Anthropología y Ciencias de la Communicación, Huancayo, Peru. Sociologist/Anthropologist with a longstanding theoretical concern for the development of an actor-oriented, 'interface' analysis of the processes and problems of planned intervention and local and global transformations. Field research spans Central Africa (mainly Zambia) and Latin America (Peruvian Andes, Mexico and Central America). Current research interests include the globalisation and valorisation of food and other goods, transnational migration flows to the US and Europe from Latin America, and commoditization in an era of neoliberalism.

Overview publications 

Selected publications

2001.

Development Sociology. Actor Perspectives

London: Routledge, 294 pp. 

2000  (with Alberto Arce, eds.)

Anthropology, Development and Modernities. Exploring discourses, counter-tendencies and violence 

London: Routledge, 232. pp.

1999  (with Magdalena Villarreal)

Small Product: Big Issues: Value contestations and cultural identities in cross-border commodity networks. 

In: Meyer, B. and P. Geschiere (eds.), Globalization and Identity: Dialects of flows and closures

Oxford. Blackwell Publishers. Pp. 125-149

1998  (with Brian Roberts)

The agrarian structures of Latin America, 1930-1990. 

In: Bethell, L. (ed.), Latin America: economy and society since 1930 

Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. Pp. 313-380; 488-500

1996

Globalization and localization: new challenges to rural research.

In: Henrietta Moore (ed.), The future of anthropological knowledge perspectives. London: Routledge, pp. 37-59.

1992 (with Ann Long, eds.).

Battlefields of knowledge: the interlocking of theory and practice in social research and development.

London/New York: Routledge.

1989

Encounters at the interface: a perspective on social discontinuities in rural development.

Wageningen: Wageningen Agricultural University.

1984 (with Bryan Roberts).

Miners, peasants and entrepreneurs: regional development in the Central Highlands of Peru

Cambridge Latin American Studies, No. 48. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1977

An Introduction to the Sociology of Rural Development 

London. Tavistock Publications. 221 pp. English Language Book Society, low price edition, 1982. Also Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

1968 

Social Change and the Individual. 

Manchester: Manchester University Press (second edition in paperback 1972). 257 pp