Anneke Newman
Dr Anneke Newman received a BA in Human Sciences (Oxford), MA in Gender and Development (Institute of Development Studies), MSc in Comparative and Cross-Cultural Research Methods (University of Sussex) and PhD in Anthropology (Sussex) in 2016. She has undertaken visiting fellowships and postdocs at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, University of Antwerp and SciencesPo Bordeaux.
Anneke joined Ghent University as a FWO-funded senior postdoctoral fellow in 2022. Her project is a decolonial analysis of knowledge production and policy-making related to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) and child marriage. Her previous projects investigated educational decision-making, and the education-migration-development nexus, in northern Senegal. Broadly speaking, she investigates coloniality in development theory, policy and programming, and explores decolonial alternatives in relation to global health, gender, migration, education, religion and development. She uses ethnography, participatory methods, and systems theory.
Anneke has participated on the boards of the British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE) and l'Association pour le développement et le changement social (APAD) and the editorial board of the journal Anthropologie & Développement.
She has taught several courses at undergraduate and Masters levels, earning her excellent student evaluations and an Award for Outstanding and Innovative Teaching at Sussex. Courses taught include anthropology of Sub-Saharan Africa, anthropology of gender and sexuality, global health, and religion and development.
New Publication: Grandmother-inclusive intergenerational approaches: the missing piece of the puzzle for ending FGM/C by 2030?
This brief argues that “grandmother-exclusionary bias” represents a major obstacle to eradication of these practices.
Call for papers: Special issue: Gender and Development: A contested landscape
This special issue of Anthropologie & développement invites contributors to place the sub-field of Gender and Development (GAD) under the microscope by unpacking, through fine-grained empirical case studies, how concepts related to gender, sexuality, feminism and decolonisation are imagined, produced, imposed, appropriated, and resisted through concrete development practices and projects.
Decolonising social norms change: An analysis of the politics of knowledge production in relation to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and child marriage
Warfare and the nature of conflict have substantially changed over the last 40 years. Yet, the procedures and content of peace agreements have not evolved with this change.
Current research projects:
Decolonising social norms change: An analysis of the politics of knowledge production in relation to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and child marriage
Warfare and the nature of conflict have substantially changed over the last 40 years. Yet, the procedures and content of peace agreements have not evolved with this change.