Overview
Background
Heloise Weber’s research is animated by an interest in the historical and contemporary politics of inequalities and injustices in the organization of development globally. She approaches questions over development from a critical perspective, which considers ‘the international’ as a product of development, and the 'development' we experience as advanced crucially also through the ‘international’. Her research addresses how knowledge-production and representation shape and justify framings of ‘development’ at a macro-political level, and what this means for people. A correlate of this is her interest in struggles against such schemes, and for ‘development otherwise’. The conceptual and theoretical concerns raised in this context form the basis of her interest in the politics of method and methodological choices, notably with regard to social science staples such as the (formal) comparative method, and its consequences and implications. Her theoretical and analytical approaches are informed by a critical interest in colonialism and its legacies, and post-colonial and decolonial thought and politics. She is also interested in how such insights can contribute to contemporary critical revisions of global public political histories.
Research
- Critical Development Theory and International Relations
- Politics of the Comparative Method
- Colonialism, Post-colonial Relations, and Decolonial Politics
- Critical Approaches to Human Rights and Inequality
- Critical Approaches to Security and Development
- Global Political Economy, Finance, and Development
- Politics and Political Economy of Microcredit and Microfinance
- Trade, Development and Inequality
- The UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
Heloise has been an active member of the Global Development Studies Section(GDS) of the International Studies Association(ISA), has twice served as Section and Program Chair, and serves on the GDS Eminent Scholar Committee. She is a founding member of the GDS/ISA Edward Said Graduate Paper Award.
She is a member of the editorial boards of Contexto Internacional- Journal of Gobal Connections, and of Globalizations.
She has served as Associate Editor of International Political Sociology (2017-2021). IPS is an official journal of the International Studies Association.
Books:
Co-authored
Phillip McMichael & Heloise Weber, Development and Social Change – A Global Perspective – 7thEdition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing, 2021 (copyright 2022).
Mark T. Berger & Heloise Weber,Rethinking the Third World: international development and world politics Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Edited volumes
The politics of development: A survey London, U.K.: Routledge, 2014.
Co-Edited volumes
War, peace and progress in the 21st century: Development, violence and insecurity London United Kingdom: Routledge, 2011. (With Mark T Berger)
Recognition and Redistribution: Beyond International Development London: Routledge, 2009. (With Mark T Berger) *This was originally a Special Issue of Globalizations.*
Book Chapters
Afterword:Imperialism and Global Inequalities. in G. Bhambra & J. McClure Imperial Inequalities: The politics of economic governance across European empires (forthcoming 2022). Manchester, Manchester University Press .
The political significance of Bandung for development: challenges, contradictions and struggles for justice (2016). In Quynh N. Pham and Robbie Shilliam (Ed.), Meanings of Bandung: postcolonial orders and decolonial visions (pp. 153-164) London, United Kingdom: Rowman & Littlefield.
From land grabs to food sovereignty (2016) In Jan Aart Scholte, Lorenzo Fioramonti and Alfred G. Nhema (Ed.), New rules for global justice: structural redistribution in the global economy (pp. 109-124) London, United Kingdom: Rowman & Littlefield.
Gender and microfinance/microcredit (2016). In Jill Steans and Daniela Tepe-Belfrage (Ed.), Handbook on gender in world politics (pp. 430-437) Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar.
Introduction (2014) In Heloise Weber (Ed.), The Politics of Development: A Survey (pp. 3-9) London, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi:10.4324/9780203804919
Global politics of human security (2013) In Mustapha Kamal Pasha (Ed.), Globalization, difference, and human security (pp. 27-37) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315886923
Global Poverty, Inequality and Development (2012) In Richard Devetak, Anthony Burke and Jim George (Ed.), An introduction to international relations 2nd ed. (pp. 372-385) Port Melbourne Vic., Australia: Cambridge University Press.
Global poverty and inequality. (2007) In Richard Devetak, Anthony Burke and Jim George (Ed.), An introduction to international relations: Australian perspectives (pp. 283-294) Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Microcredit Schemes (2007) In Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Globalization (pp. 780-783) New York, USA: Routledge.
The global political economy of microfinance and poverty reduction: locating local 'livelihoods' in political analysis(2006) In Jude L. Fernando (Ed.), Microfinance: Perils and prospects (pp. 43-63) London and New York: Routledge Taylor and Francis.
Global governance and poverty reduction: the case of microcredit (2002) In Steve Hughes and Rorden Wilkinson (Ed.), Global governance: critical perspectives (pp. 132-152) Abingdon, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. doi:10.4324/9780203302804_chapter_8
Journal Articles
Poverty is not ‘another culture’: Against a right of children to work to live. Review of International Studies (published online, Feb 5, 2022). *With Aliya Abasi.
Contribution to the Giucciardini Prize Forum: Racist Origins of IR: Thakur and Vale on South Africa's formative influence on the discipline. Cambridge Review of International Affairs (published online Oct 26, 2021)
Colonialism, genocide and International Relations: the Namibian–German case and struggles for restorative relations, (2020) European Journal of International Relations Vol. 26 (S1): 91-115. DOI: 10.1177/1354066120938833 .*With Martin Weber.
When Means of Implementation meet Ecological Modernization Theory: A critical frame for thinking about the Sustainable Dvelopment Goals initiative. (2020) World Development.*With Martin Weber.
Global development and precarity: a critical political analysis (2019) Globalizations, 16 4: 525-540. doi:10.1080/14747731.2018.1463739 *With Samid Suliman.
Collective discussion: Diagnosing the present (2018) Walker, R. B. J., Shilliam, Robbie, Weber, Heloise and Du Plessis, Gitte (2018) Collective discussion: Diagnosing the present. International Political Sociology, 12 1: 88-107. doi:10.1093/ips/olx022
Politics of ‘leaving no one behind’: contesting the 2030 sustainable development goals agenda (2017) Globalizations,14 3: 1-16. doi:10.1080/14747731.2016.1275404
The ‘Bandung spirit’ and solidarist internationalism (2016) Australian Journal of International Affairs, 70 4: 391-406. doi:10.1080/10357718.2016.1167834 *With Poppy Winati*
Is IPE just ‘boring’, or committed to problematic meta-theoretical assumptions? A critical engagement with the politics of method (2015) Contexto Internacional: Journal of Global Connections, 37 3: 913-943. doi:10.1590/s0102-85292015000300005
Reproducing inequalities through development: the MDGs and the politics of method (2015) Globalizations, 12 4: 660-676. doi:10.1080/14747731.2015.1039250
Global Politics of Microfinancing Poverty in Asia: The Case of Bangladesh Unpacked. (2014) Asian Studies Review,38 4: 544-563. doi:10.1080/10357823.2014.963508
When goals collide: politics of the MDGs and the post-2015 sustainable development goals agenda.(2014) SAIS Review of International Affairs, 34 2: 129-139. doi:10.1353/sais.2014.0026
Politics of global social relations: Organising 'everyday lived experiences' of development and destitution (2010)Australian Journal of International Affairs, 64 1: 105-122. doi:10.1080/10357710903460048
Human (in)security and development in the 21st century (2009) Third World Quarterly, 30 1: 263-270. doi:10.1080/01436590802623001 *With Mark T. Berger*
War, peace and progress: Conflict, development, (in)security and violence in the 21st century (2009) War, peace and progress: Conflict, development, (in)security and violence in the 21st century. Third World Quarterly, 30 1: 1-16. doi:10.1080/01436590802622219 *With Mark T Berger*
A political analysis of the formal comparative method: Historicizing the globalization and development debate (2007)Globalizations, 4 4: 559-572. doi:10.1080/14747730701695828
Conclusion: Towards recognition and redistribution in global politics (2007) Globalizations, 4 4: 603-605. doi:10.1080/14747730701695869 *With Mark T. Berger*
Introduction: Beyond international development (2007) Globalizations, 4 4: 423-428. doi:10.1080/14747730701695612 *With Mark T. Berger*
A political analysis of the PRSP initiative: Social struggles and the organization of persistent relations of inequality(2006) Globalizations, 3 2: 187-206. doi:10.1080/14747730600702998
Beyond state-building: global governance and the crisis of the nation-state system in the 21st century Third World Quarterly, 27 1: 201-208. doi:10.1080/01436590500370095 *With Mark T. Berger*
GATS in context: development, an evolving lex mercatoria and the Doha Agenda (2005) Review of International Political Economy, 12 3: 434-455. doi:10.1080/09692290500170809 *With Richard Higgott*
Beyond US grand strategy?: Critical analysis and world politics (2005). Critical Asian Studies, 37 1: 95-102. doi:10.1080/1467271052000305287 *With Mark T Berger*
The new economy and social risk: Banking on the poor (2004) Review of International Political Economy, 11 2: 356-386. doi:10.1080/09692290420001672859
Reconstituting the 'Third World'? poverty reduction and territoriality in the global politics of development (2004)Third World Quarterly, 25 1: 187-206. doi:10.1080/0143659042000185408
The imposition of a global development architecture: The example of microcredit (2002) Review of International Studies, 28 3: 537-555. doi:10.1017/S0260210502005375
Availability
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Fields of research
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Southampton
Works
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2007
Book Chapter
Microcredit Schemes
Weber, Heloise (2007). Microcredit Schemes. Encyclopedia of Globalization. (pp. 780-783) edited by Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte. New York, USA: Routledge.
2006
Book Chapter
The global political economy of microfinance and poverty reduction: locating local 'livelihoods' in political analysis
Weber, H (2006). The global political economy of microfinance and poverty reduction: locating local 'livelihoods' in political analysis. Microfinance: Perils and prospects. (pp. 43-63) edited by Jude L. Fernando. London and New York: Routledge Taylor and Francis.
2006
Journal Article
Beyond state-building: global governance and the crisis of the nation-state system in the 21st century
Berger, M. T. and Weber, H. (2006). Beyond state-building: global governance and the crisis of the nation-state system in the 21st century. Third World Quarterly, 27 (1), 201-208. doi: 10.1080/01436590500370095
2006
Journal Article
A political analysis of the PRSP initiative: Social struggles and the organization of persistent relations of inequality
Weber, Heloise (2006). A political analysis of the PRSP initiative: Social struggles and the organization of persistent relations of inequality. Globalizations, 3 (2), 187-206. doi: 10.1080/14747730600702998
2005
Book Chapter
The global political economy of microfinance and poverty reduction: Locating local 'livelihoods' in political analysis
Weber, Heloise (2005). The global political economy of microfinance and poverty reduction: Locating local 'livelihoods' in political analysis. Microfinance: Perils and Prospects. (pp. 37-54) Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. doi: 10.4324/9780203329245
2005
Journal Article
GATS in context: development, an evolving lex mercatoria and the Doha Agenda
Higgott, Richard and Weber, Heloise (2005). GATS in context: development, an evolving lex mercatoria and the Doha Agenda. Review of International Political Economy, 12 (3), 434-455. doi: 10.1080/09692290500170809
2005
Journal Article
Beyond US grand strategy?: Critical analysis and world politics
Berger, Mark T. and Weber, Heloise (2005). Beyond US grand strategy?: Critical analysis and world politics. Critical Asian Studies, 37 (1), 95-102. doi: 10.1080/1467271052000305287
2004
Journal Article
The new economy and social risk: Banking on the poor
Weber, Heloise (2004). The new economy and social risk: Banking on the poor. Review of International Political Economy, 11 (2), 356-386. doi: 10.1080/09692290420001672859
2004
Journal Article
Reconstituting the 'Third World'? poverty reduction and territoriality in the global politics of development
Weber, Heloise (2004). Reconstituting the 'Third World'? poverty reduction and territoriality in the global politics of development. Third World Quarterly, 25 (1), 187-206. doi: 10.1080/0143659042000185408
2003
Book Chapter
Global governance and poverty reduction: the case of microcredit
Weber, Heloise (2003). Global governance and poverty reduction: the case of microcredit. Global governance: critical perspectives. (pp. 132-152) edited by Steve Hughes and Rorden Wilkinson. Abingdon, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780203302804_chapter_8
2002
Book Chapter
Global Governance and Poverty Reduction
Weber, H. (2002). Global Governance and Poverty Reduction. Global Governance: Critical Perspectives. (pp. 132-151) edited by Steve Hughes and Rorden Wilkinson. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
2002
Journal Article
The imposition of a global development architecture: The example of microcredit
Weber, Heloise (2002). The imposition of a global development architecture: The example of microcredit. Review of International Studies, 28 (3), 537-555. doi: 10.1017/S0260210502005375
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Ethnolinguistic Discrimination and Majoritarian Politics: Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism in post-war Sri Lanka
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Nicole George
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Doctor Philosophy
Postapocalyptic environmental practices: the narratives and political possibilities of the Dark Mountain Project
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Kristen Lyons
Completed supervision
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
`Nation as Village': Historicising the Authoritarian Populist Regime of Mahinda Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Shahar Hameiri
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Politics of Children's Rights: Development and Deprivation in Pakistan
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Roland Bleiker
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
Contesting Development as a 'Method of Rule' in Solomon Islands: Counter practices against a dominant project.
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Martin Weber
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
Migration, Development, and Kinetic Politics
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Martin Weber
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
International Political Economy, Civil Society and Labour Relations in Bangladesh: The Case of the Ready-Made Garments Industry
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Martin Weber
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2013
Doctor Philosophy
A Critical Political Analysis of the Security-Development Nexus: Explaining the Transnational and Historical Constitution of Haitian Fragility
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Martin Weber
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
Towards a Critical Political Analysis of the Framing of 'African Development' in Africa-China Relations: Beyond Comparativism
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Martin Weber
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
The Capability Approach and Cape York: Noel Pearson's Reconceptualisation and Alteration of Amartya Sen's Development Framework
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Katharine Gelber
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