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Sociology Dept.
H. Gray, Chair
C. West, Grad Director
B. Crow, UG Educ Cmte Chr
College 8, 226
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
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Ben Crow
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Professor |
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Faculty Member |
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bencrow@ucsc.edu |
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(831) 459-5503 Office
(831) 459-3516 Message |
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College 8, 203 |
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Winter 2010: Mon 2-3:30, Thurs 10:30-noon, and by appt. |
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| Courses Taught | |
SOCY-184 - Hunger and Famine
SOCY-225 - Political Economy
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| Research Focus | |
Water, global inequalities, development, sustainabilty.
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| Long Description | |
Current research projects:
1. Atlas of Global Inequality. The online Atlas, built by a group of students, faculty, and staff, can be seen at http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu. We are currently working on a print Atlas of Global Inequalities. A revised, more interactive and more user-friendly, version of the online Atlas is also in the works.
2. Water: gender and the dynamics of access to water in the global South: There are historically significant improvements in life expectancy, well-being, education and women's autonomy to be achieved by extending water and sanitation infrastructure to the slums of major cities in the developing world. Recent experiments suggest that a combination of institutional, technical and financial innovations can facilitate the expansion of urban infrastructure to achieve these historic advances. My research seeks to explore these possibilities. An initial working paper on water scarcity in Kibera, Nairobi can be found at Center for Global, International & Regional Studies eScholoarship Repository. |
| Education History | |
B.Sc., Polytechnic of Central London
Ph.D., University of Edinburgh |
| Selected Publications | |
Books
Markets,
Class and Social Change: Trading Networks and Poverty in Rural South Asia,
Palgrave. 2001.
Sharing the Ganges: The Politics and Technology of River Development in South Asia, 1995, Sage.
Third World Atlas. 1984 Philadelphia: Taylor and Francis; Milton Keynes, UK: Open University Press (with A Thomas). (Five printings. Second edition, 1994).
Rural Livelihoods: Crises and Responses 1992 Oxford: Oxford University Press (with H. Bernstein and H. Johnson).
The Food Question. 1990 New York: Monthly Review; London: Earthscan (with H. Bernstein, M. Mackintosh and C. Martin).
Survival and Change in the
Third World,, 1989 New York: Oxford University Press; Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. (Fifth printing 1996).
Articles and Papers
Crow, Ben, Swallow, Brent, Asamba, Isabel. 2009 'The springs of Nyando: water, social organization and livelihoods in Western Kenya'. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Centre ICRAF.
'How the Drudgery of Getting Water Shapes Women’s Lives in Low-income Urban Communities.' Gender, Technology and Development, Vol. 13 No. 1. Ben Crow and Jamie McPike.
'The Management of International Rivers as Demands Grow and Supplies Tighten: India, China, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh.' India Review, July 2009. Ben Crow and Nirvikar Singh.
'Mapping Global Inequalities: Beyond Income Inequality to Multi-Dimensional Inequalities.' Introduction to a special issue of Journal of International Development. November 2009. Ben Crow, Nichole Zlatunich and Brian Fulfrost.
'Social Dynamics of the US Environmental Challenge.' In Gordon Wilson 2009 (ed) Environment, Development and Sustainability.
'Water: Gender and Material Inequalities in the Global South,' 2000 teaching text for the Open University course U213, "International Development: challenges for a World in Transition," In press.
'Gender, Class and Access to Water: Three Cases in a Poor and Crowded Delta,' With F. Sultana, Society and Natural Resources. 2002.
'Impediments and Innovation in International Rivers: The Water of South Asia.' With N. Singh. World Development 28(11):1907-1925, January, 2000.
"New Actors and New Space for Environmental Agreement." Water Nepal 6(1):25-41. 1998.
'Bridge over Troubled Water? Conflict and Cooperation over the Waters of South Asia' 1997: Washington DC: Henry L Stimson Center: Occasional Paper.
'Economic Returns to Social Power: Merchants' Finance and Interlinkage in the Grain Markets of Bangladesh' (with K.A.S.Murshid). World Development, Vol 22, No 7, July 1994.
'Finance in context: exploring diverse exchange conditions'. In Bouman, F and O Hospes (ads) 1994 Financial Landscapes Reconstructed, Westview.
'Class and Seasonal Differences in Exchange Conditions in Rural Bangladesh.' Forthcoming in Bernstein, H, and M Mackintosh (eds.) Commodity Exchange and Food Systems in Developing Countries, Montpellier, France: CIRAD; Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan.
'Studying market institutions and state involvement in Bangladesh'. Forthcoming in Harriss, B et al Field Methods for Studying Rural Markets.
'Negotiations about the development of the Ganga and Brahmaputra Rivers' 1993 Water Nepal 3, 2-3, 23-32 (with A Lindquist).
'The finance of trade and agriculture in a backward area of Bangladesh.' European Journal of Development Research 1992,4 (2): 36-60.
'Understanding famine and hunger', Chapter 1 in Poverty and Development in the 1990's, 1992 Oxford University Press for the Open University. |
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