Items where Author is "Mann, Laura"

Article

Ali, Muez and Mann, Laura ORCID: 0009-0000-1863-5387 (2023) Misaligned social policy? Explaining the origins and limitations of cash transfers in Sudan. Development and Change, 54 (4). 841 - 869. ISSN 0012-155X

Mukiri-Smith, Hellen, Mann, Laura and Azmeh, Shamel (2022) A DC state of mind? A review of the World Development Report 2021: data for better lives. Development and Change, 53 (6). 1421 - 1439. ISSN 0012-155X

Mann, Laura ORCID: 0009-0000-1863-5387 and Iazzolino, Gianluca ORCID: 0000-0003-4153-1521 (2021) From development state to corporate leviathan: historicizing the infrastructural performativity of digital platforms within Kenyan agriculture. Development and Change, 52 (4). pp. 829-854. ISSN 0012-155X

Mann, Laura and Kleibert, Jana Maria (2020) Capturing value amidst constant global restructuring? Information technology enabled services in India, the Philippines and Kenya. European Journal of Development Research, 32 (4). pp. 1057-1079. ISSN 0957-8811

Beresford, Alexander, Berry, Marie E. and Mann, Laura ORCID: 0009-0000-1863-5387 (2018) Liberation movements and stalled democratic transitions: reproducing power in Rwanda and South Africa through productive liminality. Democratization, 25 (7). pp. 1231-1250. ISSN 1351-0347

Mann, Laura ORCID: 0009-0000-1863-5387 (2018) Left to other peoples’ devices? A political economy perspective on the big data revolution in development. Development and Change, 49 (1). 3 - 36. ISSN 0012-155X

Graham, Mark and Mann, Laura (2017) Imagining a silicon Savannah? Technological and conceptual connectivity in Kenya's BPO and software development sectors. Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. ISSN 1681-4835

Foster, Christopher, Graham, Mark, Mann, Laura, Waema, Timothy and Friederici, Nicolas (2017) Digital control in value chains: challenges of connectivity for East African firms. Economic Geography, 94 (1). pp. 68-86. ISSN 0013-0095

Mann, Laura (2017) Jim Murphy and Padraig Carmody, Africa's ICT revolution: technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania. Africa: the Journal of the International African Institute, 87 (2). pp. 435-437. ISSN 0001-9720

Graham, Mark, Mann, Laura, Friederici, Nicolas and Waema, Timothy (2016) Growing the Kenyan business process outsourcing sector. The African Technopolitan, 5. pp. 93-95.

Mann, Laura and Graham, Mark (2016) The domestic turn: business processing outsourcing and the growing automation of Kenyan organisations. The Journal of Development Studies, 52 (4). 530 - 548. ISSN 0022-0388

Mann, Laura (2016) The data revolution in Africa. The African Technopolitan, 5. pp. 93-95.

Graham, Mark, Andersen, Casper and Mann, Laura (2015) Geographical imagination and technological connectivity in East Africa. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 40 (3). 334 - 349. ISSN 0020-2754

Mann, Laura ORCID: 0009-0000-1863-5387 and Berry, Marie (2015) Understanding the political motivations that shape Rwanda’s emergent developmental state. New Political Economy, 21 (1). pp. 119-144. ISSN 1356-3467

Mann, Laura ORCID: 0009-0000-1863-5387 and Nzayisenga, Elie (2014) Sellers on the street: the human infrastructure of the mobile phone network in Kigali, Rwanda. Critical African Studies, 7 (1). pp. 26-46. ISSN 2168-1392

Mann, Laura (2014) Wasta! The long-term implications of education expansion and economic liberalisation on Politics in Sudan. Review of African Political Economy, 41 (142). pp. 561-578. ISSN 0305-6244

Mann, Laura (2014) Book Review: business politics and the state in Africa: challenging the orthodoxies on growth and transformation,by Tim Kelsall. African Affairs, 113 (452). pp. 467-468. ISSN 0001-9909

Mann, Laura (2013) ‘We do our bit in our own space’: DAL Group and the development of a curiously Sudanese enclave economy. Journal of Modern African Studies, 51 (2). pp. 279-303. ISSN 0022-278X

Book Section

Graham, Mark, Andersen, Casper and Mann, Laura (2014) Geographies of connectivity in East Africa: trains, telecommunications, and technological teleologies. In: Geographies of connectivity in East Africa: trains, telecommunications, and technological teleologies. Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, UK, pp. 334-349.

Mann, Laura (2014) The digital divide and employment. In: Society and the Internet: how networks of information and communication are changing our lives. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199661992

Monograph

Mann, Laura (2014) Big data and positive social change in the developing world: A white paper for practitioners and researchers. Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre conference. Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, UK.

Mann, Laura, Graham, Mark and Friedrici, Nicolas (2014) The internet and business process outsourcing in East Africa: value chains and networks of connectivity-based enterprises in Kenya and Rwanda. . Oxford Internet Institution, Oxford, UK.

Online resource

Ouma, Marion and Mann, Laura (2021) On the ground the reality is different: policymakers in Kenyan agriculture should beware limits to platform knowledge. Africa at LSE (15 Apr 2021). Blog Entry.

Mann, Laura (2021) The platformisation of rural Kenya is reshaping the balance of power within agricultural production networks. Africa at LSE (01 Apr 2021). Blog Entry.

Mann, Laura (2017) Youth in Africa: resistance and transformation. Review of African Political Economy (07 Jun 2017). Website.

Mann, Laura and Meagher, Kate ORCID: 0000-0001-9859-0827 (2016) The needs of informal workers matter in digital innovation. Africa at LSE (03 Nov 2016). Website.

Mann, Laura (2016) Voices of the next generation. Review of African Political Economy (28 Jun 2016). Website.

Mann, Laura (2016) Africa’s turn to industrialize? Review of African Political Economy (24 May 2016). Website.

Mann, Laura (2016) At the intersection of digital economy and industrial policy in Africa. Africa at LSE (25 Apr 2016). Website.

Mann, Laura (2016) #Technology – Looking back, going forward: LSE Academics reflect on 2015 and look ahead to 2016. Africa at LSE (01 Jan 2016). Website.