LSE creators

Number of items: 34.
Geography and Environment
  • Gillespie, Tom, Mercer, Claire (2025). New urban frontiers. Urban Geography, 46(8), 1651 - 1670. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2025.2549283 picture_as_pdf
  • Mercer, Claire (2024). The coloniality of space: landscape, aesthetics and the middle classes in Dar es Salaam. Antipode, 56(6), 2202 - 2223. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13070 picture_as_pdf
  • Mercer, Claire (2024). The suburban frontier: middle-class construction in Dar es Salaam. University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.199 picture_as_pdf
  • Mercer, Claire (2024). Politics and the Urban Frontier: transformation and divergence in late urbanizing East Africa. Journal of Modern African Studies, 61(4), 608-609. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X23000332
  • Mercer, Claire (2020). Boundary work: becoming middle class in suburban Dar es Salaam. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 44(3), 521 - 536. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12733
  • Mercer, Claire, Lemanski, Charlotte (2020). The lived experiences of the African middle classes. Africa, 90(3), 429 - 438. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972020000017 picture_as_pdf
  • Mercer, Claire (2017). Landscapes of extended ruralisation: postcolonial suburbs in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42(1), 72 - 83. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12150
  • Mercer, Claire (2014). Middle class construction: domestic architecture, aesthetics and anxieties in Tanzania. Journal of Modern African Studies, 52(2), 227 - 250. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X14000068
  • Mercer, Claire, Green, Maia (2013). Making civil society work: contracting, cosmopolitanism and community development in Tanzania. Geoforum, 45, 106-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.10.008
  • Mercer, Claire (2013). Editorial. Review of African Political Economy, 40(137), 341-342. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2013.817085
  • Green, Maia, Mercer, Claire, Mesaki, Simeon (2012). Faith in forms: civil society evangelism and development in Tanzania. Development in Practice, 22(5-6), 721-734. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2012.685866
  • Green, Maia, Kothari, Uma, Mercer, Claire, Mitlin, Diana (2012). Saving, spending, and future-making: time, discipline, and money in development. Environment and Planning A, 44(7), 1641-1656. https://doi.org/10.1068/a44640
  • Page, Ben, Mercer, Claire (2012). Why do people do stuff?: reconceptualizing remittance behaviour in diaspora-development research and policy. Progress in Development Studies, 12(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/146499341101200101
  • Mercer, Claire (2012). The privatisation of aid? Review of African Political Economy, 131, 145-147. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2012.658644
  • Bush, Ray, Mercer, Claire (2012). The revolution in permanence. Review of African Political Economy, 39(133), 401-407. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2012.711628
  • Bush, Ray, Martiniello, Giuliano, Mercer, Claire (2011). Humanitarian imperialism. Review of African Political Economy, 38(129), 357-365. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2011.602539
  • Jennings, Michael, Mercer, Claire (2011). Rehabilitating nationalisms: conviviality and national consciousness in postcolonial Tanzania. Politique Africaine, 121, 87-106.
  • Page, Ben, Mercer, Claire (2010). Diasporas and development. In Knott, Kim, McLoughlin, Sean (Eds.), Diasporas: Concepts, Intersections, Identies (pp. 102-106). Zed Books.
  • Page, Ben, Evans, Martin, Mercer, Claire (2010). Revisiting the politics of belonging in Cameroon. Africa, 80(3), 345-370. https://doi.org/10.3366/afr.2010.0301
  • Harrison, Graham, Mercer, Claire (2010). Demanding development. Review of African Political Economy, 37(124), 119-121. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2010.485420
  • Mercer, Claire, Page, Ben (2010). African home associations in Britain: between political belonging and moral conviviality. African Diaspora, 3(1), 110-130. https://doi.org/10.1163/187254610X505682
  • Green, Maia, Mercer, Claire, Mesaki, Simeon (2010). The development activities, values and performance of non-governmental and faith-based organizations in Magu and Newala districts, Tanzania. (Religions and development working papers 49-2010). Religions and Development Research Programme Consortium.
  • Page, Ben, Mercer, Claire, Evans, Martin (2009). Introduction: African transnationalisms and diaspora networks. Global Networks, 9(2), 137-140. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2009.00247.x
  • Mercer, Claire, Page, Ben, Evans, Martin (2009). Unsettling connections: transnational networks, development and African home associations. Global Networks, 9(2), 141-161. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2009.00248.x
  • Mercer, Claire, Page, Ben, Evans, Martin (2008). Development and the African diaspora: place and the politics of home. Zed Books.
  • Power, Marcus, Mohan, Giles, Mercer, Claire (2006). Postcolonial geographies of development: introduction. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 27(3), 231-234. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9493.2006.00259.x
  • Mercer, Claire (2006). Telecentres and transformations: modernising Tanzania through the internet. African Affairs, 105(419), 243-264. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi087
  • Mercer, Claire (2004). Engineering civil society: information and communication technologies and NGOs in Tanzania. Review of African Political Economy, 31(99), 49-64. https://doi.org/10.1080/0305624042000258414
  • Mercer, Claire, Mohan, Giles, Power, M (2003). Towards a critical political geography of African development. Geoforum, 34(4), 419-436. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7185(03)00045-9
  • Mercer, Claire (2003). Performing partnership: civil society and the illusions of good governance in Tanzania. Political Geography, 22(7), 741-763. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0962-6298(03)00103-3
  • Kelsall, T, Mercer, Claire (2003). Empowering people? World vision & 'transformatory development' in Tanzania. Review of African Political Economy, 30(96), 293-304.
  • Mercer, Claire (2002). NGOs, civil society and democratization in the developing world: a critical review of the literature. Progress in Development Studies, 2(1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.1191/1464993402ps027ra
  • Mercer, Claire (2002). Deconstructing development: the discourse of maendeleo and the politics of women's participation on Mount Kilimanjaro. Development and Change, 33(1), 101-127. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7660.00242
  • Mercer, Claire (1999). Reconceptualising state-society relations in Tanzania: are NGOs 'making a difference'? Area, 31(3), 247-258. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.1999.tb00089.x