Forskningsresultat per år
Personlig profil
Information om forskning och undervisning
- Senior Lecturer in Development Studies
- Head of Discipline of Development Studies
- Fellow at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS)
- Board member of the Society and Change study programme
- Vice-member of the University of Helsinki Equality and Non-Discrimination Board
- Principal Investigator for the Academy of Finland research project 'Citizenship Utopias in the Global South: The Pursuit of Transformative Alternatives in Times of Disillusionment' (2019-2023)
My research examines complex articulations between development, politics and power. I am interested in the concepts and practices of development, as well as in the decolonizing alternatives to mainstream development and neoliberal globalization. In terms of politics, I navigate at the intersections of formal political organizations, state bureaucracy, and transformative politics at the sphere of social movements and civil society. I look at power as intricate governmental assemblages, entailing local, national, and global processes. My interdisciplinary social scientific approach draws on political anthropology, ethnographies of development policy and cooperation, decoloniality thinking and political economy of development.
My latest book Vivir Bien as an Alternative to Neoliberal Globalization (Routledge, 2018) examines indigenous politics, state formation and transformative alternatives to mainstream development thinking through the ethnographic analysis of state discourses and bureaucratic applications of the notion of Vivir Bien/Buen Vivir (living well) in Bolivia. I investigated the potentials and challenges in the search for more just, inclusive and ecologically sustainable alternatives to growth-based development models in the global South.
Keywords: Politics of development, state formation, power, governmentality, civil society, social movements, citizenship, decoloniality, transformative alternatives, political economy of development.
Country experience: Bolivia, Kenya, Cuba, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Ghana, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Peru, Chile and Brazil.
Externa befattningar
Associate researcher, Centro Latinoamericano de Ecología Social (CLAES)
2 jan 2016 → 31 dec 2017Associate researcher , Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi
1 nov 2014 → 31 okt 2015Vetenskapsgrenar
- 5203 U-landsforskning
Internationellt och inhemskt samarbete
Publikationer och projekt inom de senaste fem åren.
Publikationer
Toward Human/Non-Human Conviviality: Buen Vivir as a Transformative Alternative to Capitalist Coloniality
Ranta, E., 2020, (!!Accepted/In press) Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies. Hosseini, S. A. H., Motta, S. & Gills, B. (red.). RoutledgeForskningsoutput: Kapitel i bok/rapport/konferenshandling › Kapitel › Vetenskaplig › Peer review
Miksi Latinalainen Amerikka kuohuu?
Heikkinen, A. & Ranta, E., mar 2020, I : Kehitys. 1, s. 26-29 4 s.Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel › Allmänheten
Kuuban muutosvuosi perustuslakiuudistuksen jälkeen
Ranta, E., 23 apr 2020, I : Politiikasta.fi.Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel › Allmänheten
Öppen tillgång
Vivir Bien as an Alternative to Neoliberal Globalization: Can Indigenous Terminologies Decolonize the State?
Ranta, E. M., 14 mar 2018, London: Routledge. 190 s. (Rethinking Globalizations)Forskningsoutput: Bok/rapport › Bok › Vetenskaplig › Peer review
Öppen tillgång
Fil
Kehityspolitiikan kriisi tulee selättää
Ranta, E. & Stocchetti, M., 22 jul 2019, I : Helsingin Sanomat.Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel › Allmänheten
Öppen tillgång
Projekter
Citizenship Utopias in the Global South: The Pursuit of Transformative Alternatives in Times of Civic Disillusionment
Ranta, E., Onodera, H. & Kaskinen, M.
01/09/2019 → 31/08/2023
Projekt: Forskningsprojekt
Reducing Inequality: Finnish development cooperation in Ethiopia and Kenya with special focus on gender and disability
01/01/2013 → 30/06/2014
Projekt: Forskningsprojekt
Miten torjua kehityksen muistinmenetystä - tutkielmia periferiasta
Koponen, J., Kontinen, T., Saaritsa, S., Gyawali, B., Pakkasvirta, J. & Ranta, E.
01/01/2013 → 31/12/2016
Projekt: Forskningsprojekt
Nuoret ja poliittisuus nyky-Afrikassa
Oinas, E., Onodera, H., Suurpää, L. & Ranta, E.
01/09/2012 → 31/08/2016
Projekt: Forskningsprojekt
Aktiviteter
Latinalaisen Amerikan protestit
Eija Ranta (!!Speaker)16 jan 2020
Aktivitet: Typer för tal eller presentation › !!Invited talk
What is happening in South America and why?
Eija Ranta (Medlem i organisationskommitté)13 jan 2020
Aktivitet: Typer för deltagande i eller organisering av evenemang › Arrangemang av och deltagande i konferens/workshop/kurs/seminarium
Third World Quarterly (Tidskrift)
Eija Ranta (Referentgranskare)nov 2019 → dec 2019
Aktivitet: Typer för peer review av output och redaktionsarbete › Referentgranskning av manuskript
The Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development Formas (Extern organisation)
Eija Ranta (Styrelsemedlem)1 maj 2019 → 30 nov 2019
Aktivitet: Medlemskapstyper › Medlemskap eller annan roll i granskningskommitté
PhD supervision Sebastian Caballero Paz: 'Gold-mining Conflicts in the Bolivian Amazonas'
Eija Ranta (Handledare), Gutu Wayessa (Handledare)1 jan 2020 → …
Aktivitet: Examinationstyper › Handledare eller bihandledare av doktorsavhandling
Tidningsurklipp
Miksi psykologi lähti kadulle Chilessä?, YLE Maailmanpolitiikan arkipäivää
23/11/2019
1 Mediabidrag
Press/media: !!Press / Media
Bolivia epävarman tulevaisuuden edessä - Oikeistokonservatiivit täyttämässä Evo Moralesin jättämää valtatyhjiötä, YLE Uutiset
15/11/2019
1 Mediabidrag
Press/media: !!Press / Media
Bolivia vaarassa lähteä Brasilian äärioikeistolaisen presidentin virtaan, STT/Iltasanomat
11/11/2019
1 Mediabidrag
Press/media: !!Press / Media
Kuuba perustuslakiuudistuksen jälkeen, YLE Radio 1, Ykkösaamu
18/02/2020
1 Mediabidrag
Press/media: !!Press / Media