Dr Glyn Williams: Publications

Books

G Williams, P Meth, and K Willis 2009
Geographies of Developing Areas: the Global South in a Changing World. Routledge, London.

S Corbridge, G Williams, M Srivastava and R Véron 2005
Seeing the State: Governance and Governmentality in Rural India. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

R Bradnock and G Williams (eds.) 2002
South Asia in a Globalising World. Prentice Hall, London.

Refereed Journals

Williams G, Thampi BV, Narayana D, Nandigama S and Bhattacharyya D 2011
"Performing Participatory Citizenship: power and politics in Kerala’s Kudumbashree programme” Journal of Development Studies 1261-1280.

Corbridge S, Srivastava M, Williams G and Véron R 2007
“Seeing the State Again” Geoforum 38, 611-613.

Véron R, Williams G, Corbridge S, and Srivastava, M 2006
“Decentralized Corruption or Corrupt Decentralization? Community Monitoring of Poverty-Alleviation Schemes in Eastern India” World Development 34(11), 1922-1941.

Williams, G and Mawdsley, E 2006
“Postcolonial environmental justice: government and governance in India” Geoforum 37, 660-670.

Williams, G. 2004
“Evaluating Participatory Development: tyranny, power and (re)politicisation” Third World Quarterly 25(3), 557-579.

Williams, G., Véron, R., Srivastava, M. and Corbridge, S. 2003
“Participation, poverty and power: poor people’s engagement with India’s Employment Assurance Scheme”, Development and Change 34(1), 163-92.

Williams, G. and McIlwaine, C. 2003
“The Entanglements of Participation: the theory and practice of attacking poverty”, Progress in Development Studies 3 (2), 93-96.

Williams, G., Srivastava, M. Véron, R., and Corbridge, S. 2003
“Enhancing Pro-Poor Governance in Eastern India: the role of action research in institutional reform”, Progress in Development Studies 3 (2), 159-178.

Corbridge, S., Williams, G., Véron, R. and Srivastava, M. 2003
“Brainstorming, Modified Logframes and the Conversion of Research Hypotheses into Field Questions: Reflections from Eastern India”, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 24 (2), 242-257

Corbridge, S., Williams, G., Véron, R. and Srivastava, M. 2003
“Making Social Science Matter I: How the Local State Works in Rural Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal”, Economic and Political Weekly 38 (24) June 14th 2377-2389.

Corbridge, S., Williams, G., Srivastava, M. and Véron, R. 2003
“Making Social Science Matter II: How the Rural Poor See the State in Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal” Economic and Political Weekly 38 (25) June 21st 2561-2569.

Véron, R., Williams, G., Corbridge, S. and Srivastava, M. 2003
“The Everyday State and Political Society in Eastern India”, Journal of Development Studies, 39 (5): 1-28.

Srivastava, M., Corbridge, S. Véron, R. and Williams, G. 2002
“Making Sense of the Local State: the Employment Assurance Scheme in Eastern India”, Contemporary South Asia 11(3) 159-178.

Williams, G. 2001
“Understanding ‘political stability’: party action and political discourse in West Bengal” Third World Quarterly 22 (4) 603-622.

Williams, G. 1999
“Assessing Poverty and Poverty Alleviation: evidence from West Bengal” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 24 (2) 193-212.

Williams, G. 1997
“State, discourse and development in India: the case of West Bengal’s Panchayati Raj” Environment and Planning A. 29 (12) 2099-2112.

Book Chapters

Williams, G 2011
“Development” in Agnew, J and Duncan, J (eds.) Companion to Human Geography Wiley. pp.559-574

Williams, G 2009
“Good Governance” in Kitchin, R and Thrift, N (eds.) International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography London: Elsevier. pp.606-614.

Meth, P and Williams, G.. 2006
“Literature Reviews and Bibliographic Searches” in Desai, V. and Potter, R. (eds.) Doing Development Research. London: Arnold. pp.209-221.

Williams, G. and Mawdsley, E. 2006
“India’s Evolving Political Ecologies” in Raju, S., Kumar, S. and Corbridge S. (eds.) South Asian Geographies London: Sage. pp.261-278.

Williams, G. 2004
“Towards a Repoliticisation of Participatory Development: Political capabilities and spaces of empowerment” in Hickey, S. and Mohan, G. (eds.) Participation: From Tyranny to Transformation? Exploring New Approaches to Participation. London: Zed Books. pp.92-109.

Williams, G. 2004
“Rethinking West Bengal’s ‘political stability’: from party organisation to local practices of politics” in Zavos, J. Wyatt, A. and Hewitt, V. (eds.) The Politics of Cultural Mobilization in India. Delhi: OUP. pp.71-102

Williams, G. and Bradnock, R. 2002
“South Asia in a Globalising World: a reconstructed regional geography” in Bradnock, R. and Williams, G. (eds.) South Asia in a Globalising World. Prentice Hall. pp.1-16.

Bradnock, R. and Williams, G. 2002
“Development in South Asia: ground-truthing constructions of regional change” in Bradnock, R. and Williams, G. (eds.) South Asia in a Globalising World. Prentice Hall. pp.270-273

Williams, G. 1999
“Panchayati Raj and the changing micro-politics of West Bengal” in B Rogaly, B Harriss-White and S Bose (eds.) Sonar Bangla? Agricultural Growth and Agrarian Change in West Bengal and Bangladesh. Sage Publishers. pp.229-252.