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Number of items: 162.
Anthropology
  • Lewis, David, Bowers, Rebecca, Heslop, Luke, Tawfic, Simon (2024). From ecosystems to advicescapes: business, development and advice in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Journal of South Asian Development, 19(3), 345 - 363. https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741241239120 picture_as_pdf
  • Gardner, Katy, Lewis, David (2015). Anthropology and development: challenges for the twenty-first century. Pluto Press.
  • Gardner, Katy, Lewis, David (2005). Beyond development? In Edelman, Marc, Haugerud, Angelique (Eds.), The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism (pp. 352-360). Blackwell Publishing Ltd..
  • Gardner, Katy, Lewis, David (1996). Anthropology, development and the post-modern challenge. Pluto Press.
    • Government
  • Glasius, Marlies, Lewis, David, Seckinelgin, Hakan (Eds.) (2004). Exploring civil society : political and cultural contexts. Routledge.
  • Lewis, David (2004). "Old" and "new" civil societies in Bangladesh. In Glasius, Marlies, Lewis, David, Seckinelgin, Hakan (Eds.), Exploring Civil Society: Political and Cultural Contexts (pp. 113-120). Routledge.
    • International Development
  • Lewis, David, Schuller, Mark (2025). NGO afterlives. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 48(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/plar.70029 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (9 June 2025) Towards a development humanities. International Development. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2025). Towards a ‘Development Humanities’: widening the multi-disciplinary field of development studies. Oxford Development Studies, 53(2), 105 - 118. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2025.2476553 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David, Bowers, Rebecca, Heslop, Luke, Tawfic, Simon (2024). From ecosystems to advicescapes: business, development and advice in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Journal of South Asian Development, 19(3), 345 - 363. https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741241239120 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2024). Clarifying confusion between development as 'change' and 'intention'. In The Companion to Development Studies (pp. 57-61). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429282348-12 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2024). Foreword. In Ali, Manhal, Akhtar, Rakib, Islam, Mohammad Tarikul (Eds.), COVID-19 in South Asia: Society, Economics and Politics (pp. xii - xiii). Routledge.
  • Lewis, David (1 January 2024) Bangladesh goes to the polls. South Asia @ LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2023). Book review: Village ties: women, NGOs, and informal institutions in rural Bangladesh Bangladesh | By Nayma Qayum. Pacific Affairs, 96(2), 425 - 427.
  • Rahman, M. Feisal, Lewis, David, Kuhl, Laura, Baldwin, Andrew, Ruszczyk, Hanna, Nadiruzzaman, Md, Mahid, Yousuf (2023). Managed urban retreat: the trouble with crisis narratives. Urban Geography, https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2228094 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (20 February 2023) Why study entrepreneurship advice in South Asia? South Asia @ LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David, Rodgers, Dennis, Woolcock, Michael (9 January 2023) Is development an art or a science? Impact of Social Sciences Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David, Rodgers, Dennis, Woolcock, Michael (Eds.) (2022). New mediums, better messages? How innovations in translation, engagement, and advocacy are changing international development. Oxford University Press. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David, Rodgers, Dennis, Woolcock, Michael (2021). The sounds of development: musical representations as a(nother) source of development knowledge. The Journal of Development Studies, 57(8), 1397 - 1412. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2020.1862800 picture_as_pdf
  • Leone, Tiziana, Hammoudeh, Weeam, Mitwali, Susan, Lewis, David, Kafri, Rawan, Lin, Tracy, Giacaman, Rita, Coast, Ernestina (2021). Redefining deprivation in a conflict area: learning from the Palestinian experience using mixed methods. (LSE Middle East Centre Paper Series 47). LSE Middle East Centre. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2005). Entries on ‘civil society’, ‘non-governmental organisations’ and ‘Grameen Bank’. In Forsyth, Tim (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of International Development . Routledge.
    • LSE
  • Lewis, David (2018). The view from Cox's Bazar: assessing the impact of the Rohingya crisis on Bangladesh.
  • Lewis, David (2018). Oxfam crisis: we need a more informed debate about NGOs and international aid.
    • LSE Health
  • Hammoudeh, Doaa, Coast, Ernestina, Lewis, David, Rabaia, Yoke, Leone, Tiziana, Giacaman, Rita (2017). Age of despair or age of hope? Palestinian women's perspectives on midlife health. Social Science & Medicine, 184, 108-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.05.028
    • Management
  • Lewis, David, Madon, Shirin (2004). Information systems and non-governmental development organisations: advocacy, organisational learning and accountability. Information Society, 20(2), 117-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972240490423049
    • Middle East Centre
  • Hammoudeh, Doaa, Coast, Ernestina, Lewis, David, Rabaia, Yoke, Leone, Tiziana, Giacaman, Rita (2017). Age of despair or age of hope? Palestinian women's perspectives on midlife health. Social Science & Medicine, 184, 108-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.05.028
  • Hammoudeh, Doaa, Coast, Ernestina, Giacaman, Rita, Lewis, David, Rabaia, Yoke, Leone, Tiziana (2015-03-20 - 2015-03-21) Age of despair or age of hope? Older Palestinian women’s perspectives on health in midlife [Other]. Lancet Palestinian Health Alliance 6th conference, Beirut, Lebanon, LBN.
    • Social Policy
  • Lewis, David, Biggs, Stephen, Justice, Scott (2022). Rural mechanization for equitable development: disarray, disjuncture and disruption. Development Policy Review, 40(5). https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12612 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David, Rahman, M. Feisal, Twinomuhangi, Revocatus, Haque, Shababa, Huq, Nazmul, Huq, Saleemul, Ribbe, Lars, Ishtiaque, Asif (2022). University-based researchers as knowledge brokers for climate policies and action. European Journal of Development Research, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-022-00526-0 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David, Hossain, Abul (2022). Local political consolidation in Bangladesh: power, informality and patronage. Development and Change, 53(2), 356 - 375. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12534 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David, Rodgers, Dennis, Woolcock, Michael (2021). The sounds of development: musical representations as a(nother) source of development knowledge. The Journal of Development Studies, 57(8), 1397 - 1412. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2020.1862800 picture_as_pdf
  • Leone, Tiziana, Hammoudeh, Weeam, Mitwali, Susan, Lewis, David, Kafri, Rawan, Lin, Tracy, Giacaman, Rita, Coast, Ernestina (2021). Redefining deprivation in a conflict area: learning from the Palestinian experience using mixed methods. (LSE Middle East Centre Paper Series 47). LSE Middle East Centre. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David, van Schendel, Willem (2020). Rethinking the Bangladesh state. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 54(2), 306 – 323. https://doi.org/10.1177/0069966720911733 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David, Rodgers, Dennis, Woolcock, Michael (2020). The sounds of development: musical representations as (an)other source of development knowledge. (Social Policy Working Paper Series 07-20). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2019). Big D and little d two types of twenty-first century development? Third World Quarterly, 40(11), 1957 - 1975. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2019.1630270 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2019). Humanitarianism, civil society, and the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh. Third World Quarterly, 40(10), 1884-1902. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2019.1652897 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2019). NGOs and management studies. In Davies, Thomas (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations (pp. 165-178). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315268927 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2019). Social entrepreneurship before neoliberalism?: The life and work of Akhtar Hameed Khan. (Social Policy Working Paper Series 02-19). The London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Social Policy. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David, Hossain, Abul (2018). Dealing with the local level power structure: findings from a qualitative study of three villages in Greater Faridpur District. Journal of Bangladesh Studies, 18(1-2). picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2018). Peopling policy processes? Methodological populism in the Bangladesh health and education sectors. World Development, 108, 16 - 27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.03.012
  • Huq, Saleemul, Lewis, David (2018). What should be the future of UK-Bangladesh relations after aid? Exit DFID, enter the universities. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2018). Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914-1999). In Simon, David (Ed.), Key Thinkers on Development . Routledge. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2017). Organising and representing the poor in a clientelistic democracy: the decline of radical NGOs in Bangladesh. The Journal of Development Studies, 53(10), 1545-1567. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2017.1279732
  • Lewis, David, Schuller, Mark (2017). Engagements with a productively unstable category: anthropologists and non-governmental organizations. Current Anthropology, 58(5).
  • Lewis, David, Hossain, Abul (2017). Revisiting the local power structure in Bangladesh: economic gain, political pain? London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Lewis, David (2017). Guest editorial: should we pay more attention to South-North learning? Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership and Governance, 41(4), 327-331. https://doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2017.1366222
  • Hammoudeh, Doaa, Coast, Ernestina, Lewis, David, Rabaia, Yoke, Leone, Tiziana, Giacaman, Rita (2017). Age of despair or age of hope? Palestinian women's perspectives on midlife health. Social Science & Medicine, 184, 108-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.05.028
  • Lewis, David (2016). Anthropologists’ encounters with NGOs: critique, collaboration, and conflict. In Lashaw, Amanda, Vannier, Christian, Sampson, Steven (Eds.), Cultures of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs . University of Alabama Press.
  • Lewis, David (2015). Abandoned pasts, disappearing futures: further reflections on multiple temporalities in studying non-governmental organisation worlds. Critique of Anthropology, 36(1), 84-92. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X15617304
  • Lewis, David (2015). Livelihood resilience in a changing world – 6 global policy recommendations for a more sustainable future. (UNU-EHS Working Paper 221). UNU-EHS.
  • Lewis, David (2015). Contesting parallel worlds: time to abandon the distinction between the ‘international’ and ‘domestic’ contexts of third sector scholarship? Voluntas, 26(5), 2084-2103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-014-9482-x
  • Lewis, David (2015). Book review: non-governmental organizations, management and development, 3rd Edition.
  • Lewis, David (2015). Is civil society in trouble in Bangladesh?
  • Lewis, David (2015). Non-governmental organizations and civil society. In Riaz, Ali, Rahman, Mohammad Sajjadur (Eds.), Routledge handbook of contemporary Bangladesh . Routledge.
  • Gardner, Katy, Lewis, David (2015). Anthropology and development: challenges for the twenty-first century. Pluto Press.
  • Hammoudeh, Doaa, Coast, Ernestina, Giacaman, Rita, Lewis, David, Rabaia, Yoke, Leone, Tiziana (2015-03-20 - 2015-03-21) Age of despair or age of hope? Older Palestinian women’s perspectives on health in midlife [Other]. Lancet Palestinian Health Alliance 6th conference, Beirut, Lebanon, LBN.
  • Lewis, David (2014). Two elections, one new government: India-Bangladesh relations in 2014.
  • Lewis, David (2014). Heading south: time to abandon the ‘parallel worlds’ of international non-governmental organization (NGO) and domestic third sector scholarship? Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 25(5), 1132-1150. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-014-9438-1
  • Lewis, David, Rogers, Dennis, Woolcock, Michael (Eds.) (2014). Popular representations of development: insights from novels, films, television and social media. Routledge.
  • Lewis, David, Rodgers, Dennis, Woolcock, Michael (2014). Can film offer an(other) authoritative source of development knowledge?
  • Lewis, David (2014). Non-governmental organizations, management and development. Routledge.
  • Lewis, David (2014). Commodifying development experience: deconstructing development as gift in the development blockbuster. Anthropological Forum, 24(4), 440-453. https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2013.863144
  • Lewis, David (2014). Politics in Bangladesh: no quick fixes.
  • Schuller, Mark, Lewis, David (2014). Anthropology of NGOs. In Jackson, John (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology . Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199766567-0090
  • Lewis, David, Tanner, Thomas, Wrathall, David, Bronen, Robin, Cradock-Henry, Nick, Huq, Saleemul, Lawless, Christopher J, Nawrotzki, Raphael, Prasad, Vivek & Ashiqur Rahman, Md et al (2014). Livelihood resilience in the face of climate change. Nature Climate Change, 5, 23-26. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2431 picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2014). Understanding the role of non-government organizations (NGOs) as cultural brokers: a review of approaches. Osterreichische Zeitschrift fur Volkskunde, (3), 293-298.
  • Lewis, David (2013). What options for Bangladesh?
  • Lewis, David (2013). Bangladesh: democracy in turmoil.
  • Lewis, David (2013). Reconnecting development policy, people and history. In Wallace, Tina, Porter, Fenella (Eds.), Aid, NGOs and the realities of women's lives: a perfect storm . Practical Action (Organization).
  • Lewis, David (2013). Sideways strategies: civil society-state reformist crossover activities in the Philippines 1986–2010. Contemporary Southeast Asia, 35(1), 27-55. https://doi.org/10.1355/cs35-1b
  • Lewis, David (2013). The paradoxes of Bangladesh’s Shahbag protests.
  • Lewis, David (2013). Building the welfare mix or side-lining the state? non-governmental organizations in developing countries as social policy actors. In Surender, Rebecca, Walker, Robert (Eds.), Social policy in a developing world (pp. 58-80). Edward Elgar.
  • Lewis, David (2013). Building the welfare mix or sidelining the state? Non-governmental organizations in developing countries as social policy actors. In Surender, Rebecca, Walker, Robert (Eds.), Social Policy in a Developing World (pp. 58-80). Edward Elgar.
  • Lewis, David (2013-02-22 - 2013-02-24) Why should the world care about Bangladesh? [Other]. Bridging the Policy-Action Divide: Challenges and Prospects for Bangladesh, Berkeley, United States, USA.
  • Lewis, David, Rodgers, Dennis, Woolcock, Michael (2013). The projection of development: cinematic representation as a(nother) source of authoritative knowledge? The Journal of Development Studies, 49(3), 383-397. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2012.724167
  • Lewis, David (2012). Love-hate relationship: why bilateral tensions persist between India and Bangladesh. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, David (2012). Rural development, technology, and policy memory. In Parker, Rachel A., Appelbaum, Richard P. (Eds.), Can emerging technologies make a difference in development? (pp. 28-39). Routledge.
  • Lewis, David (2012). Bangladesh: politics, economy and civil society. Cambridge University Press.
  • Lewis, David (2012). Across the little divide? life histories of public and third sector “boundary crossers”. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 1(2), 158 -177.
  • Austin, Michael J., Dal Santo, Teresa, Lewis, David (2012). Boundary-crossing careers of senior human service administrators: a cross-case analysis. Administration in Social Work, 36(2), 109-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/03643107.2011.564720
  • Lewis, David (2012). Can we learn from the past? policy history and climate change in Bangladesh. In Castro, Peter A., Taylor, Dan, Brokensha, David W. (Eds.), Climate change and threatened communities (pp. 153-162). Practical Action (Organization).
  • Lewis, David (2012). Conclusion: the big society and social policy. In Ishkanian, Armine, Szreter, Simon (Eds.), The big society debate: a new agenda for social welfare? . Edward Elgar.
  • Lewis, David (2011). The voluntary sector is at the centre of the government’s Big Society plans: this may offer the possibility of better services, but not necessarily cheaper ones.
  • Lewis, David (2011). Exchanges of professionals between the public and non-governmental sectors: life-work histories from Bangladesh. Modern Asian Studies, 45(3), 735-757. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X09000092
  • Lewis, David (2011). Tidy concepts, messy lives: defining tensions in the domestic and overseas careers of UK non-governmental professionals. In Mosse, David (Ed.), Adventures in Aidland: the Anthropology of Professionals in International Development . Berghahn Books.
  • Biggs, Stephen, Justice, Scott, Lewis, David (2011). Patterns of rural mechanisation, energy and employment in South Asia: reopening the debate. Economic and Political Weekly, XLVI(9), 78-82.
  • Lewis, David (2011). There is no crisis of civic participation: The Big Society risks undermining the integrity of both state and civil society.
  • Lewis, David (2010). The strength of weak ideas?: human security, policy history and climate change in Bangladesh. In Security and Development (pp. 113-129). Berghahn Books.
  • Lewis, David (2010). Political ideologies and non-governmental organizations: an anthropological perspective. Journal of Political Ideologies, 15(3), 333-345. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2010.513877
  • Lewis, David (2010). Encountering hybridity: lessons from individual experiences. In Billis, David (Ed.), Hybrid Organizations and the Third Sector: Challenges for Practice, Theory and Policy . Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lewis, David (2010). Disciplined activists, unruly brokers? exploring the boundaries between non-governmental organisations, donors and state in Bangladesh. In Gellner, David N. (Ed.), Varieties of activist experience: civil society in South Asia (pp. 159-180). SAGE Publications.
  • Lewis, David (2010). Disciplined activists, unruly brokers?: exploring the boundaries between non-governmental organizations (NGOs), donors, and the state in Bangladesh. In Gellner, David (Ed.), Varieties of Activist Experience: Civil Society in South Asia . SAGE Publications.
  • Lewis, David (2010). Non-governmental organisations. In Barnard, A., Spencer, J. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology . Routledge.
  • Biggs, Stephen, Lewis, David (2009). Fair trade and organizational innovation in Nepal: lessons from 25 Years of growth of the Association of Craft Producers (ACP). European Journal of Development Research, 21(3), 377-396. https://doi.org/10.1057/ejdr.2009.11
  • Lewis, David, Kanji, Nazneen (2009). Non-governmental organisations and development. Routledge.
  • Lewis, David (2009). International development and the ‘perpetual present’: anthropological approaches to the re-historicization of policy. European Journal of Development Research, 21(1), 32-46. https://doi.org/10.1057/ejdr.2008.7
  • Lewis, David (2009). Non-governmental organizations. In Anheier, Helmut K., Toepler, Stefan (Eds.), International encyclopedia of civil society . Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.
  • Lewis, David (2009). Reflections on organizational anthropology. In Sridhar, Devi (Ed.), Anthropologists inside organizations: South Asian case studies (pp. 149-152). SAGE Publications.
  • Lewis, David (2008). Using life histories in social policy research: the case of third sector/public sector boundary crossing. Journal of Social Policy, 37(4), 559-578. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279408002213
  • Lewis, David, Hossain, Abul (2008). A tale of three villages: power, difference and locality in rural Bangladesh. Journal of South Asian Development, 3(1), 33-51. https://doi.org/10.1177/097317410700300102
  • Lewis, David (2008). Beyond “the net”? the changing rural power structure in Bangladesh. In Gellner, David, Hachhethu, Krishna (Eds.), Local democracy in South Asia: microprocesses of democratization in Nepal and its neighbours . SAGE Publications.
  • Lewis, David (2008). Crossing the boundaries between 'third sector' and state: life-work histories from the Philippines, Bangladesh and the UK. Third World Quarterly, 29(1), 125-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436590701726582
  • Lewis, David, Rodgers, Dennis, Woolcock, Michael (2008). The fiction of development: literary representation as a source of authoritative knowledge. The Journal of Development Studies, 44(2), 198-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220380701789828
  • Lewis, David, Ravichandran, N. (Eds.) (2008). NGOs and social welfare: new research approaches. Rawat Books.
  • Lewis, David, Hossain, Abul (2008). Understanding the local power structure in rural Bangladesh. Sweden. Styrelsen för internationellt utvecklingssamarbete.
  • Lewis, David (2007). Bringing in society, culture and politics: values and accountability in a Bangladesh NGO. In Ebrahim, Alnoor, Weisband, Edward (Eds.), Global accountabilities: participation, pluralism, and public ethics (pp. 131-148). Cambridge University Press.
  • Hossain, Mahabub, Bose, Manik L., Lewis, David, Chowdhury, Alamgir (2007). Rice research, technological process, and impacts on the poor: the Bangladesh case. In Adato, Michelle, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth (Eds.), Agricultural Research, Livelihoods, and Poverty: Studies of Economic and Social Impacts in Six Countries (pp. 56-102). Johns Hopkins University. Press.
  • Hallman, Kelly, Lewis, David, Begum, Suraiya (2007). Assessing the impact of vegetable and fishpond technologies on poverty in rural Bangladesh. In Adato, Michelle, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth (Eds.), Agricultural Research, Livelihoods, and Poverty: Studies of Economic and Social Impacts in Six Countries (pp. 103-148). Johns Hopkins University. Press.
  • Bebbington, Anthony, Lewis, David, Batterbury, Simon, Olson, E, Shameem Siddiqi, M (2007). Beyond the development text: the World Bank and empowerment in practice. The Journal of Development Studies, 43(4), 597-621. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220380701259665
  • Opoku-Mensah, Paul, Lewis, David, Tvedt, Terje (Eds.) (2007). Reconceptualising NGOs and their roles in development: NGOs, civil society and the international aid system. Aalborg University Press.
  • Hossain, Mahabub, Lewis, David, Bose, Manik L., Chowdhury, Alamgir (2007). Rice research, technological progress, and impacts on the poor: the Bangladesh case. In Adato, Michelle, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth (Eds.), Agricultural Research, Livelihoods, and Poverty: Studies of Economic and Social Impacts in Six Countries (pp. 56-102). Johns Hopkins University. Press.
  • Lewis, David (2006). The management of non-governmental development organisations. Routledge.
  • Lewis, David (2006). Issues and priorities in non-governmental organisation research. Journal of Health Management, 8(2), 181-193. https://doi.org/10.1177/097206340600800202
  • Lewis, David, Opoku-Mensah, Paul (2006). Moving forward research agendas on international NGOs: Theory, agency and context. Journal of International Development, 18(5), 665-675. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.1306
  • Lewis, David (2006-11-30 - 2006-12-02) Anthropology and development: knowledge, history, power and practice [Paper]. Anthropology in practice: theory, method and ethnography in Swedish Development Cooperation, Uppsala, Sweden, SWE.
  • Lewis, David, Mosse, D. (2006). Development brokers and translators: the ethnography of aid agencies. Kumarian Press.
  • Lewis, David, Mosse, D (2006). Encountering order and disjuncture: Contemporary anthropological perspectives on the organisation of development. Oxford Development Studies, 34(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600810500495907
  • Lewis, David (2006). Globalization and international service: a development perspective. Voluntary Action, 7(2), 13-26.
  • Lewis, David (2006). Non-governmental organisations. In Tate, N. (Ed.), Governments of the World (pp. 205-209). Macmillan Reference.
  • Lewis, David (2006). Non-governmental organisations and international politics. In Tate, Neal (Ed.), Governments of the world: a global guide to citizens' rights and responsibilities . Macmillan Reference USA.
  • Lewis, David, Siddiqi, M. Shameen (2006). Social capital from sericulture? : actors, markets, and power in a multi-agency project in Bangladesh. In Bebbington, Anthony J., Woolcock, Michael, Guggenheim, Scott E., Olson, Elizabeth (Eds.), The Search for Empowerment: Social Capital as Idea and Practice at the World Bank (pp. 239-257). Kumarian Press.
  • Lewis, David (2005-09-23 - 2005-09-25) Policy tensions in public space: shifting boundaries between non-governmental organisations (NGOs), donors and state in Bangladesh [Paper]. The public reconfigured: The production of poverty in an age of advancing liberalism, Bergen, Norway, NOR.
  • Lewis, David, Rodgers, Dennis, Woolcock, Michael (2005). The fiction of development: knowledge, authority and representation. (International Development Working Paper Series 05-61). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Lewis, David (2005). Anthropology and development : the uneasy relationship. In Carrier, James G. (Ed.), A Handbook of Economic Anthropology (pp. 472-486). Edward Elgar.
  • Gardner, Katy, Lewis, David (2005). Beyond development? In Edelman, Marc, Haugerud, Angelique (Eds.), The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism (pp. 352-360). Blackwell Publishing Ltd..
  • Lewis, David (2005). Individuals, organisations and public action : trajectories of the non-governmental in development studies. In Kothari, Uma (Ed.), A Radical History of Development Studies (pp. 200-222). Zed Books.
  • Mosse, David, Lewis, David (2005). The aid effect: giving and governing in international development. Pluto Press.
  • Lewis, David (2004). On the difficulty of studying “civil society”: NGOs, state and democracy in Bangladesh. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 38(3), 299-322. https://doi.org/10.1177/006996670403800301
  • Lewis, David (2004). Icebergs, hippos and organizational change in Africa, a reply to Rick James. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 15(2), 259-263. https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.67
  • Lewis, David, Madon, Shirin (2004). Information systems and non-governmental development organisations: advocacy, organisational learning and accountability. Information Society, 20(2), 117-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972240490423049
  • Lewis, David (2004). Non-Governmental Organisations. In Thomas, Clive S (Ed.), Research Guide to Us and International Interest Groups (pp. 263-264). Praeger Publishers.
  • Lewis, David (2004). "Old" and "new" civil societies in Bangladesh. In Glasius, Marlies, Lewis, David, Seckinelgin, Hakan (Eds.), Exploring Civil Society: Political and Cultural Contexts (pp. 113-120). Routledge.
  • Lewis, David (2003). NGOs, organizational culture, and institutional sustainability. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 590(1), 212-226. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716203256904
  • Lewis, David (2003). Theorising the organisation and management of non-governmental development organisations: towards a composite approach. Public Management Review, 5(3), 325-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/1471903032000146937
  • Lewis, David, Bebbington, Anthony J., Batterbury, Simon, Shah, Alpa, Olson, Elizabeth, Siddiqi, M. Shameem, Duvall, Sandra (2003). Practice, power and meaning: frameworks for studying organizational culture in multi-agency rural development projects. Journal of International Development, 15(5), 541-557. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.1004
  • Lewis, David (2003). Civil society. In Christensen, Karen, Levinson, David (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World . SAGE Publications.
  • Lewis, David (2003). Nongovernmental organizations, business, and the management of ambiguity. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 9(2), 135-152. https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.9202
  • Lewis, David (2003). « Old » and « new » civil societies? reflections on NGOs, state and democracy in Bangladesh. Journal des Anthropologues, 94-95, 93-121.
  • Lewis, David (2003). Organization and management in the third sector: toward a cross-cultural research agenda. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 13(1), 67-83. https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.13106
  • Lewis, David (2002). Civil society in African contexts: reflections on the usefulness of a concept. Development and Change, 33(4), 569-586. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7660.00270
  • Lewis, David (2002-01-31 - 2002-02-01) Organisational culture in multi-agency development projects [Paper]. Conference on Sustainable Development in Urban Communities, Arizona, United States, USA.
  • Lewis, David (2002). NGOs, performance and accountability: an overview. In Desai, Vandana, Potter, Robert B. (Eds.), The Arnold Companion to Development Studies (pp. 519-522). Edward Arnold.
  • Lewis, David, Bebbington, Anthony J., Batterbury, Simon, Shah, Alpa, Olson, Elizabeth, Siddiqi, M. Shameem, Duvall, Sandra (2002). Practice, power and meaning: frameworks for studying organisational culture in multi-agency rural development projects. (International Working Paper Series 12). Centre for Civil Society (London School of Economics and Political Science).
  • Lewis, David (2002). The rise of non-governmental organisations: issues in development management. In Clarke, Ron, Kirkpatrick, Colin H., Polidano, Charles (Eds.), Handbook on development policy and management (pp. 372-380). Edward Elgar.
  • Lewis, David (2001). Civil society in non-Western contexts: reflections on the ‘usefulness’ of a concept. (Civil Society Working Paper series 13). Centre for Civil Society (London School of Economics and Political Science).
  • Lewis, David (2001). The management of non-governmental development organisations: an introduction. Routledge.
  • Lewis, David (2000). International aid agencies: policy conflict and convergence. In Harris, Margaret, Rochester, Colin (Eds.), Voluntary organisations and social policy in Britain: perspectives on change and choice . Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lewis, David (2000). Building 'active' partnerships in aid-recipient countries: lessons from a rural development project in Bangladesh. In Osborne, Stephen P. (Ed.), Public-Private Partnerships: Theory and Practice in International Perspective (pp. 252 - 264). Routledge.
  • Gardner, Katy, Lewis, David (2000). Dominant paradigms overturned or 'business as usual'? Development discourse and the White Paper on international development. Critique of Anthropology, 20(1), 15-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X0002000106
  • Lewis, David, Sobhan, Babar (2000). Routes of funding, roots of trust? Northern NGOs, Southern NGOs and the rise of direct funding. In Eade, Deborah, Wallace, Tina (Eds.), Development and management (pp. 202-219). Oxfam.
  • Lewis, David, Wallace, Tina (Eds.) (2000). New roles and relevance: development NGOs and the challenge of change. Kumarian Press.
  • Lewis, David (1999). International perspectives on voluntary action: reshaping the third sector. Earthscan Publications Ltd..
  • Lewis, David, Sobhan, Babar (1999). Routes of funding, roots of trust? northern NGOs, southern NGOs, donors, and the rise of direct funding. Development in Practice, 9(1-2), 117-129.
  • Lewis, David (1999). Development NGOs and the challenge of partnership. In Finer, Catherine J (Ed.), Transnational Social Policy (pp. 49-60). Blackwell Publishing Ltd..
  • Lewis, David (1999). Partnership as process: building an institutional ethnography of an inter-agency aquaculture project in Bangladesh. Journal of Social Studies, 85, 61-82.
  • Lewis, David (1999). Revealing, widening, deepening?: a review of the existing and the potential contribution of anthropological approaches to ‘third sector’. Human Organization, 58(1), 73-81.
  • Lewis, David (1998). Partnership as process: building an institutional ethnography of an inter-agency aquaculture project in Bangladesh. In Mosse, David, Farrington, John, Rew, Alan (Eds.), Development as process: concepts and methods for working with complexity (pp. 99-114). Routledge.
  • Lewis, David (1998). Bridging the gap?: the parallel universes of the non-profit and non-governmental organisation research traditions and the changing context of voluntary action. (International Working Paper Series 1). Centre for Civil Society (London School of Economics and Political Science).
  • Lewis, David (1998). Development NGOs and the challenge of partnership: changing relations between North and South. Social Policy and Administration, 32(5), 501-512. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9515.00111
  • Lewis, David (1998). Interagency partnerships in aid-recipient countries: lessons from an aquaculture project in Bangladesh. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 27(3), 323-338. https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764098273004
  • Lewis, David (1997). NGOs, donors, and the state in Bangladesh. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 554(1), 33-45. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716297554001003
  • Lewis, David (1997). Rethinking aquaculture for resource-poor farmers: perspectives from Bangladesh. Food Policy, 22(6), 533-546. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0306-9192(98)00006-2
  • Gardner, Katy, Lewis, David (1996). Anthropology, development and the post-modern challenge. Pluto Press.
  • Lewis, David (1996). ‘Appropriating’ technology? tractor owners, brokers, artisans and farmers in rural Bangladesh. Journal of International Development, 8(1), 21-38. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1328(199601)8:1<21::AID-JID247>3.0.CO;2-#
  • Lewis, David, Wood, Geoffrey, Gregory, Rick (1996). Trading the silver seed. Practical Action (Organization).
  • Lewis, David (1996). Understanding rural entrepreneurship in a Bangladesh village — individuals, roles or structures? Small Enterprise Development, 7(4), 22-31. https://doi.org/10.3362/0957-1329.1996.034
  • Farrington, John, Lewis, David (Eds.) (1993). Non-governmental organizations and the state in Asia: rethinking roles in sustainable agricultural development. Routledge.
  • Bebbington, Anthony, Farrington, John, Lewis, David, Wellard, Kate (Eds.) (1993). Reluctant partners? NGOs, the state and sustainable agricultural development. Routledge.
  • Lewis, David (1993). Going it alone: female-headed households, rights and resources in rural Bangladesh. The European Journal of Development Research, 5(2), 23-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/09578819308426586
  • Lewis, David, Gregory, Rick, Wood, Geoffrey D. (1993). Indigenising extension: farmers, fish-seed traders and poverty-focused aquaculture in Bangladesh. Development Policy Review, 11(2), 185-194. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7679.1993.tb00036.x
  • Lewis, David (1992). Social research and aquaculture in Bangladesh: a case study from the North West. In Sadeque, Syed Zahir (Ed.), Environment and natural resource management in Bangladesh . Bangladesh Sociological Association.
  • Lewis, David (1991). The offstage miracle: carrying out and writing up field research in Bangladesh. Journal of Social Studies, 52, 43-68.
  • Lewis, David (1991). Technologies & transactions: a study of the interaction between new technology and agrarian structure in Bangladesh-Dhaka. Dhaka University. Centre for Social Studies.