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Professor Padraig Carmody
Professor In Geography, Geography

Biography

Pádraig Carmody lectures in Development Geography at TCD, from which he holds both a B.A. in Geography and History and M.Sc in Geography. He completed his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Minnesota in 1998, where he was a MacArthur Scholar. Subsequently he taught at the University of Vermont, Dublin City University and St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra. He also worked as a policy and research analyst for the Combat Poverty Agency in 2002-3 and has also taught at the University of Cologne. His research centres on the political economy of globalization in Africa. He is Director of the Masters in Development Practice at Trinity and was lead author on the only successful grant proposal in Europe to the MacArthur Foundation in the first round to get seed funding for the programme. He was also the Trinity Director of CHARM-EU from 2020-2024. He has consulted for the Office of the President of South Africa, amongst others and is currently a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. He is a former editor of Irish Geography and sits on the boards of Political Geography, The Journal of the Tanzanian Geographical Association, Hungarian Journal of African Studies, Irish Studies in International Affairs, Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa (Zed Books) and Geoforum, where he was previously editor-in-chief. He was also an Associate Editor of the journal Transnational Corporations, published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and is currently Chair of the Standing Committee on International Affairs of the Royal Irish Academy. He is a former Chair of the Development Studies Association of Ireland.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

From virtual democracy to authocracy or regime diversity in Africa? in, editor(s)Corrado Tornimbeni,Timothy Scarnecchia, , Is Democracy Dead in Africa? An Historical Critique of Democracy and Development from the 1990s to the 2020s., London, James Currey, 2025, [Pádraig Carmody] Book Chapter, 2025 TARA - Full Text

Ricardo Reboredo and Pádraig Carmody, Between Energy and Politics: Ruin, Renewal, and the Contours of State Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2024 Journal Article, 2024 TARA - Full Text DOI

Carmody, P., â€~Digital provide†or product consumption diffusion cycle? The diffusion impact and potential of digital technology in the Global South, Information Technology for Development, 2024 Journal Article, 2024 DOI

Development theories, perspectives, and debates with a focus on Africa in, Cheltenham, 2024, pp14-29 , [Carmody, P. and Murphy, J.T.] Book Chapter, 2024

Godfrey Hampwaye, Pádraig Carmody, and Phoebe Ramaloko, China-Zambia Engagements: Is there change, what has changed and why?, Journal of Contemporary East Asian Studies, 12, (1), 2024, p179-198 Journal Article, 2024

Pádraig Carmody, 'Digital Provide' or Product Consumption Diffusion Cycle? The Diffusion Impact and Potential of Digital Technology in the Global South, Information Technology for Development., 2024 Journal Article, 2024 TARA - Full Text DOI URL

Carmody, P. and Murphy, J.T., Foreign investment and aid in Africa: History, trends, theories, and prospects, 2024, 132-151pp Book, 2024

African economic development: Challenges and successes (a look at the data) in, 2024, pp30-40 , [Murphy, J.T. and Carmody, P.] Book Chapter, 2024

Carmody, P. and Murphy, J.T., Handbook of African economic development, 2024, 1-606pp Book, 2024 DOI

Zajontz, T. and Carmody, P. and Bagwandeen, M. and Leysens, A., Introduction: China†s role in Africa†s railway renaissance, 2023, 1-25pp Book, 2023 DOI

P. Carmody, J. Murphy, R. Grant and F. Owusu., The Urban Question in Africa: Uneven Geographies of Transition, London, Wiley for Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers book series., 2023 Book, 2023

KopiÅ"ski, D. and Carmody, P., The Political Economy of FDI and Spillovers in Africa: Can China Deliver on Hirschman†s Ideas, International Political Economy Series, Part F1639, 2023, p15-45 Journal Article, 2023 DOI

Carmody, P.R. and Murphy, J.T. and Grant, R. and Owusu, F.Y., RGS-IBG book series the urban question in Africa: Uneven geographies of transition, 2023, 1-262pp Book, 2023

Dominik Kopinski, Pádraig Carmody and Ian Taylor (eds), The Political Economy of Chinese FDI and Spillover Effects in Africa, Cham, Palgrave MacMillan, 2023, 1 - 276pp Book, 2023

KopiÅ"ski, D. and Carmody, P., Chinaâ€"Africa Spillovers: The Literature Review, International Political Economy Series, Part F1639, 2023, p93-122 Journal Article, 2023 DOI

Zajontz, T., Carmody, P., Bagwandeen, M., Leysens, T. (eds), Africa's Railway Renaissance: The Role and Impact of China, London, Routledge, 2023 Book, 2023

Otiso, K.M. and Carmody, P., Powering African transport or transporting Chinese power? The spatial political economy of Chinese railways in Africa, 2023, 49-67pp Book, 2023 DOI

Pádraig Carmody, The Geopolitics of Health Science Research: Commentary on the Roles of Regional Organisations in Strengthening Health Research Systems in Africa: Activities, Gaps and Future Perspectives, International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 12, 2023, p7515-7516 Journal Article, 2023

Gerard McCann, Nita Mishra and Pádraig Carmody, COVID-19, the Global South and the Pandemic's Development Impact, Bristol, Bristol University Press, 2022 Book, 2022

Pandemic Structure and Blowback: Endemic Inequality and the New (ab)Normal in, editor(s)Gerard McCann, Nita Mishra and Pádraig Carmody , COVID-19, the Global South and the Pandemic's Development Impact 2022., Bristol, Bristol University Press, 2022, [Pádraig Carmody and Gerard McCann] Book Chapter, 2022

Emerging Market (Southern) Corporations, D. Richardson, N. Castree, M. Goodchild, A. Kobayashi, W. Liu and R. Marston (eds). , The International Encyclopaedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology, , 2nd, London, Wiley-Blackwell. , 2022, [Pádraig Carmody and Louis Brennan] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2022

Pádraig Carmody and James Murphy, Chinese Neoglobalisation in East Africa: Logics, Couplings and Impacts, Space and Polity, 26, (1), 2022, p20-43 Journal Article, 2022

Carmody, P. and Taylor, I. and Zajontz, T., China†s spatial fix and â€~debt diplomacy†in Africa: constraining belt or road to economic transformation?, Canadian Journal of African Studies, 56, (1), 2022, p57-77 Journal Article, 2022 DOI

Pádraig Carmody and Joel Wainwright, Contradiction and Restructuring in the Belt and Road Initiative: Reflections on China's pause in the "Go world", Third World Quarterly, 43, (12), 2022, p2830"2851 Journal Article, 2022

Pádraig Carmody, Tim Zajontz and Ricardo Reboredo, From "debt diplomacy" to donorship? China's changing role in global development, Global Political Economy, 2022 Journal Article, 2022 TARA - Full Text

Pádraig Carmody, Ian Taylor and Tim Zajontz, China's Spatial Fix and 'Debt Diplomacy' in Africa, Canadian Journal of African Studies, 56, (1), 2022, p57 - 77 Journal Article, 2022 DOI TARA - Full Text

Howard Stein, Samantha Cunningham and Pádraig Carmody, The Rise of 'Behavioural Man'. Randomised Controlled Trials and the 'New' Development Agenda, Human Geography, 14, (1), 2021, p62-75 Journal Article, 2021 DOI

Stein, H. and Cunningham, S. and Carmody, P., The rise of †behavioral man†: Randomized controlled trials and the †new†development agenda [El surgimiento del "hombre de comportamiento": ensayos controlados aleatorios y la "nueva" agenda de desarrollo], Human Geography(United Kingdom), 14, (1), 2021, p62-75 Journal Article, 2021 DOI

Pádraig Carmody, Going Viral? The Impacts of COVID-19 on Sino-African Relations, African Studies Quarterly, 20, (3), 2021, p1 - 23 Journal Article, 2021 TARA - Full Text

Carmody, P., Going Viral? The Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sino-African Relations, African Studies Quarterly, 20, (3), 2021, p1-23 Journal Article, 2021

Carmody, P. and Dasandi, N. and Mikhaylov, S.J., Power Plays and Balancing Acts: The Paradoxical Effects of Chinese Trade on African Foreign Policy Positions, Political Studies, 68, (1), 2020, p224-246 Journal Article, 2020 DOI

Pádraig Carmody, Gerard McCann, Clodagh Colleran and Ciara O'Halloran (eds), COVID 19 in the Global South: Impacts and Responses., Bristol, Bristol University/Policy Press in Association with the Development Studies Association of Ireland, 2020 Book, 2020 TARA - Full Text

Grant, R. and Carmody, P. and Murphy, J.T., A green transition in South Africa? Sociotechnical experimentation in the Atlantis Special Economic Zone, Journal of Modern African Studies, 58, (2), 2020, p189-211 Journal Article, 2020 DOI

Labor Market, Audrey Kobayashi, International Encylopaedia of Human Geography, 2nd, Elsevier, 2020, [Padraig Carmody] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2020

Padraig Carmody, Economic-Geographic Theory from the South: African Experience in the Global Economy, Geoforum, 115, 2020, p60-63 Journal Article, 2020

Pádraig Carmody, Slava Mikhaylov and Niheer Dasandi, 'Power Plays and Balancing Acts: The Paradoxical Effects of Chinese Trade on African Foreign Policy Positions, Political Studies, 68, (1), 2020, p224 - 246 Journal Article, 2020

Richard Grant, Pádraig Carmody and James Murphy, A Green Economy Transition in South Africa? The Case of Atlantis Greentech Special Economic Zone, Journal of Modern African Studies, 58, (2), 2020, p189-211 Journal Article, 2020

Carmody, P., In This Issue, Vestnik RUDN. International Relations, 20, (1), 2020, p9-10 Journal Article, 2020 DOI

Pádraig Carmody, Peter Kragelund and Ricardo Reboredo, Africa's Shadow Rise: China and the Mirage of African Economic Development, London, Zed Books in association with the International African Institute, 2020 Book, 2020

Global North/South, Audrey Kobayashi, International Encylopaedia of Human Geography, 2nd, London, Elsevier, 2020, [Rory Horner and Pádraig Carmody] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2020

Building BRICS in Africa? in, editor(s)PB Anand, Flavio Comim, Shailaja Fennell, John Weiss , Handbook of BRICS and Emerging Economies, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2020, [Pádraig Carmody] Book Chapter, 2020

Carmody, P., In This Issue, Vestnik RUDN. International Relations, 20, (1), 2020, p9-10 Journal Article, 2020 DOI

Pádraig Carmody, Development Theory and Practice in a Changing World, London, Routledge, 2019 Book, 2019

Pádraig Carmody and Alicia Fortuin , Ride Sharing, Virtual Capital and Impacts on Labour in Cape Town, South Africa, African Geographical Review, (3), 2019, p196-208 Journal Article, 2019

Carmody, P. and Fortuin, A., †Ride-sharing†, virtual capital and impacts on labor in Cape Town, South Africa, African Geographical Review, 38, (3), 2019, p196-208 Journal Article, 2019 DOI

James T. Murphy and Pádraig Carmody, Generative urbanization in Africa? A sociotechnical view of Tanzania's urban transition, Urban Geography, 40, (1), 2019, p128-157 Journal Article, 2019

Francis Owusu, Ricardo Reboredo and Pádraig Carmody, Trumping Development: Selective Delinking and Coercive Governmentality in US-Africa Relations, Africa Today., 66, No. 1 (Fall, (1), 2019, p2 - 27 Journal Article, 2019

Globalization and Regionalism in Africa in, editor(s)Nic Cheeseman , Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Politics, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2019, [Padraig Carmody] Book Chapter, 2019 URL

African Geographical Review Special Issue on New Geographies of South(ern) Africa, 38, 3, (2019), 193 - 282p, Pádraig Carmody and Christian Rogerson, [eds.] Journal, 2019

Globalisation, Thomas Spears, Oxford Bibliographies in African Studies, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2019, [Padraig Carmody] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2019

Murphy, J.T. and Carmody, P. and Grant, R. and Owusu, F., The impact of China on African cities: Potentials for development, 2018, 106-127pp Book, 2018

South Africa in the Global Political Economy: The BRICS's Connection in, editor(s)J. Knight and C. Rogerson. , The Geography of South Africa - Contemporary Changes and New Directions, Springer, 2018, [Pádraig Carmody] Book Chapter, 2018

Carmody, P., The geopolitics and economics of BRICS†resource and market access in Southern Africa: Aiding development or creating dependency?, Journal of Southern African Studies, 43, (5), 2017, p863-877 Journal Article, 2017 DOI

Murphy, S., Carmody, P., Okawakol, J.,, When rights collide: land grabbing, force and injustice in Uganda, Journal of Peasant Studies, 2017 Journal Article, 2017 DOI URL

States and Development, Douglas Richardson et al. , The International Encyclopaedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology, Wiley-Blackwell, 2017, [Pádraig Carmody] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2017

Carmody, P. and Owusu, F., Neoliberalism, urbanization and change in Africa, 2017, 61-75pp Book, 2017

Pádraig Carmody, Assembling Effective Industrial Policy in Africa: An Agenda for Action, Review of African Political Economy, 44, (152), 2017, p336 - 345 Journal Article, 2017

Emerging market (southern) corporation in, editor(s)Douglas Richardson et al. , The International Encyclopaedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology, Wiley-Blackwell, 2017, [Pádraig Carmody and Louis Brennan] Book Chapter, 2017

Carmody, P., Ecolonization and the creation of insecurity Regimes: The meaning of Zimbabwe's land reform programme in regional context, 2016, 169-182pp Book, 2016

The Impact of China and South Africa in Urban Africa in, editor(s)Evelyn Wamboye and Esubalew Tiruneh , Foreign Capital Flows and Economic Development in Africa, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2016, [James T. Murphy and Pádraig Carmody] Book Chapter, 2016

Pádraig Carmody and Peter Kragelund, Who is in Charge? State Power and Agency in Sino-African Relations, Cornell International Law Journal, 49, 2016, p1 - 24 Journal Article, 2016 TARA - Full Text

Pádraig Carmody, The New Scramble for Africa, 2nd, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2016 Book, 2016 URL

Pádraig Carmody and Francis Owusu, Neoliberalism, Urbanization and Change in Africa: The Political Economy of Heterotopias, Journal of African Development, 18, (1), 2016, p61 - 73 Journal Article, 2016 TARA - Full Text

Peter Kragelund and Pádraig Carmody, BRICS' impacts on local economic development in the Global South: the case of a tourism town and mining provinces in Zambia, Area Development and Policy, 1, (2), 2016, p218 - 237 Journal Article, 2016 URL

Amir Mohd Anwar and Pádraig Carmody, Bringing Globalisation to the Countryside: The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones in India, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 37, 2016, p121 - 138 Journal Article, 2016 URL

Carmody, P. and Taylor, D., Globalization, Land Grabbing, and the Present-Day Colonial State in Uganda: Ecolonization and Its Impacts, Journal of Environment and Development, 25, (1), 2016, p100-126 Journal Article, 2016 DOI

ICT4D and E-Business, International Encyclopaedia of Digital Communication and Society, 2015, [Pádraig Carmody] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2015 DOI

James T. Murphy and Pádraig Carmody, Africa's Information Revolution: Technical Regimes and Production Networks in South Africa and Tanzania, Wiley-Blackwell. Royal Geographical Society -Institute of British Geographers Book Series., 2015, viii - 249pp Book, 2015

Ecolonisation and the Creation of Insecurity Regimes: Zimbabwe's Land Reform in Regional Context in, editor(s)Corrado Tornimbeni and Arrighi Palloti , State, Land and Democracy in Southern Africa, Ashgate, 2015, pp169 - 182, [Pádraig Carmody] Book Chapter, 2015

Murphy, J.T. and Carmody, P. and Surborg, B., Industrial transformation or business as usual? Information and communication technologies and Africa's place in the global information economy [Transformation industrielle ou business as usual? Les technologies d'information et de la communication et la place de l'Afrique dans l'Ì conomie de l'information mondialiÅ e], Review of African Political Economy, 41, (140), 2014, p264-283 Journal Article, 2014 DOI

Mohammed Amir Anwar, Pádraig Carmody, Bjoern Surborg, Adrian Corcoran, The Diffusion and Impacts of Information and Communication Technology on Tourism in the Western Cape, South Africa, Urban Forum, 2014, p531-545 Journal Article, 2014 URL

Pádraig Carmody, The World is Bumpy: Power, Uneven Development and the Impact of New ICTs on South African Manufacturing, Human Geography, 7, (1), 2014, p1-16 Journal Article, 2014

Carmody, P., Globalising solidarity or legitimating accumulation? Brazilian strategies and interests in Africa, Irish Studies in International Affairs, 24, (1), 2013, p81-99 Journal Article, 2013 DOI

Carmody, P., A global enclosure: The geo-logics of indian agro-investments in Africa, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 24, (1), 2013, p84-103 Journal Article, 2013 DOI

Pádraig Carmody, The Rise of the BRICS in Africa: The Geopolitics of South-South Relations, 1st, London, Zed Books, 2013, 1 - 160pp Book, 2013

Pádraig Carmody, A Knowledge Economy or an Information Society in Africa: Thintegration and the Mobile Phone Revolution, Information Technology and Development, 19, (1), 2013, p24-39 Journal Article, 2013

Pádraig Carmody, Another BRIC in the Wall? South Africa's Developmental Impact and Contradictory Rise in Africa and Beyond, European Journal of Development Research, 24, (2), 2012, p223 - 241 Journal Article, 2012

Pádraig Carmody, The Informationalization of Poverty in Africa: The Mobile Phone Revolution and Economic Structure, Information Technologies and International Development, 8, (3), 2012, p1 - 17 Journal Article, 2012

Pádraig Carmody, Godfrey Hampwaye and Enock Sakala, Globalisation and the Rise of the State? Chinese Geogovernance in Zambia, New Political Economy, 17, (2), 2012, p209 - 230 Journal Article, 2012 URL

Pádraig Carmody, The Scramble for Timber and Biofuels in Africa, Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, XII, (Number 1), 2011, p125-136 Journal Article, 2011

Pádraig Carmody, The New Scramble for Africa, 2011 Book, 2011 URL

Carmody, P. and Elder, G., The globalization-AIDS-poverty syndrome in Africa1, 2011, 227-248pp Book, 2011

Pádraig Carmody and Godfrey Hampwaye, Inclusive of Exclusive Globalization? Asian Investment and Zambia's Economy, Africa Today, 56, (3), 2010, p84 - 102 Journal Article, 2010 URL

Pádraig Carmody, Globalisation in Africa: Recolonization or Renaissance?, Lynne Rienner, 2010 Book, 2010 URL

Peadar Kirby and Pádraig Carmody (eds), The Legacy of Ireland's Economic Expansion: Geographies of the Celtic Tiger, 1st , London and New York, Routledge, 2010 Book, 2010 URL

Anglophone Africa in, editor(s)Abiola Irele and Biodun Jeyifo , Encylopaedia of African Thought, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2010, pp23 - 25, [Padraig Carmody] Book Chapter, 2010

Pádraig Carmody and Ian Taylor, Flexigemony and Force in China's Resource Diplomacy in Africa: Sudan and Zambia Compared, Geopolitics, 15, (3), 2010, p495 - 515 Journal Article, 2010 URL

Carmody, P. and Elder, G., The globalization-aids-poverty syndrome in Africa*, 2009, 235-256pp Book, 2009

Pádraig Carmody, An Asian-Driven Economic Recovery in Africa? The Zambian Case, World Development, 37, (7), 2009, p1197 - 1207 Journal Article, 2009

Labour Market, Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift (eds), International Encylopaedia of Human Geography, 1st, 1, Elsevier, 2009, pp79 - 84, [Pádraig Carmody] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2009

Carmody, P., Cruciform sovereignty, matrix governance and the scramble for Africa's oil: Insights from Chad and Sudan, Political Geography, 28, (6), 2009, p353-361 Journal Article, 2009 DOI

Pádraig Carmody, Cruciform Sovereignty, Matrix Governance and the Scramble for Africa's Oil: Interpretations from Chad and Sudan, Political Geography, 28, 2009, p353 - 361 Journal Article, 2009

Authoritarianism, Peter M. Stearns, Encyclopaedia of the Modern World, 8th, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2008, [Pádraig Carmody] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2008

Pádraig Carmody, Exploring Africa's Economic Recovery, Geography Compass, January, Vol 2, (1), 2008, p97 - 114 Journal Article, 2008 URL

Pádraig Carmody, Neoliberalism, Civil Society and Security in Africa, 1st , Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2007, 1 - 224pp Book, 2007 URL

Pádraig Carmody and Francis Owusu, Competing Hegemons: Chinese vs. American Geo-Economic Strategies in Africa, Political Geography, 26, (5), 2007, p504 - 524 Journal Article, 2007 URL

Pádraig Carmody, Community Development Finance: Potential for Ireland, Journal of Irish Urban Studies, 4-6, 2007, p173 - 178 Journal Article, 2007

Pádraig Carmody, Transforming Globalization and Security, Africa Today, 52, (1), 2005, p97 - 120 Journal Article, 2005 URL

Pádraig Carmody and Scott Taylor, Industry and the Urban Sector in Zimbabwe's Political Economy, African Studies Quarterly, 7, (2), 2003 Journal Article, 2003 URL

Pádraig Carmody, The Spatial Paradox of Globalisation, Geographical Viewpoint, 31, 2003, p7-17 Journal Article, 2003

Pádraig Carmody , Between Globalisation and (Post)Apartheid: The Political Economy of Restructuring in South Africa, Journal of Southern African Studies, 28, (2), 2002, p255-275 Journal Article, 2002

Pádraig Carmody, Tearing the Social Fabric: Neoliberalism, Deindustrialization and the Crisis of Governance in Zimbabwe, 1st, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Heinemann, 2001, 1 - 211pp Book, 2001 URL

Jim Glassman and Pádraig Carmody, Structural Adjustment in East and South-East Asia: Lessons from Latin America, Geoforum, 32, 2001, p79-90 Journal Article, 2001 URL

Pádraig Carmody, Open Sesame! Liberalization and Zimbabwe's Textile Industry, Ngqo! An Economic Bulletin published by the South African National Institute for Economic Policy, 1, (5), 1999 Journal Article, 1999

Pádraig Carmody, Neoclassical Practice and the Collapse of Industry in Zimbabwe: the Cases of Textiles, Clothing, and Footwear, Economic Geography, 74, (4), 1998, p319-343 Journal Article, 1998

Pádraig Carmody, Constructing Alternatives to Structural Adjustment in Africa, Review of African Political Economy, (75), 1998, p25-46 Journal Article, 1998

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Foreword in, editor(s)Jean Chrysostome, K. Kiyala, Ndivhuho Tshikovhi, Dumisani Ngwenya and Prof. Fulufhelo Netswera , BRICS Expansion: Peace, Security and Sustainable Development, Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, [Pádraig Carmody] Book Chapter, 2025

Pádraig Carmody, The New Scramble for Africa, Verteidigungspolitik.at Risikobild 2024: Vernetzte Sicherheit, 2024 Journal Article, 2024

International Organizations in, editor(s)Colin Flint , Encyclopedia of Geopolitics, London, Edward Elgar, 2024, [Pádraig Carmody] Book Chapter, 2024

Land Grabs in, editor(s)Emil Dauncey, Vandana Desai, Robert B. Potter , Companion to Development Studies, 4th edition, London, Taylor and Francis, 2024, pp453 - 456, [Pádraig Carmody and Adwoa Ofori] Book Chapter, 2024

Pádraig Carmody, BRICS' Enlargement: Power Expansion or Contraction in a Changing World Order?, EconPol Forum,, 2024, p10 - 13 Journal Article, 2024 TARA - Full Text

Pádraig Carmody, Shifting Geopolitics in Africa, Nokoko, 11, 2024, p61-67 Journal Article, 2024

Geography and Development Theory in, editor(s)Barney Warf , Encylopaedia of Human Geography., Cham, Springer, 2024, [Pádraig Carmody] Book Chapter, 2024

Pádraig Carmody and Paul Cicantell, The 2024 Presidential Election in the US: What Might the Future Hold for Global Politics and Economics?, EconPol Forum, 2024 Journal Article, 2024

Pádraig Camrody, Africa Rising? Ian Taylor's legacy in the study of African underdevelopment, Contemporary Voices in International Relations, 2023 Journal Article, 2023

Powering Transport or Transporting Power? The Spatial Political Economy of Chinese Railways in Africa in, editor(s)Tim Zajontz, Pádraig Carmody, Mandira Bangwandeen and Tony Leysens , Africa's Railway Renaissance: The Role and Impact of China, London and New York, Routledge. New Regionalisms Series, 2023, [Kefa Otiso and Pádraig Carmody] Book Chapter, 2023

Is China Better Than Other Outside Powers in Fostering African Economic Transformation? in, editor(s)W. Moseley and K. Otiso , Debating African Issues: Conversations Under the Palaver Tree, London, Routledge, 2022, [Padraig Carmody] Book Chapter, 2022

Africa's Shadow Rise: The Mirage of African Economic Development in, editor(s)Alexey Vasiliev, Denis Degterev and Timothy M. Shaw. , The Delusion of Decolonization in Africa, Sixty years Later, Cham, Springer, 2021, [Pádraig Carmody, Peter Kragelund and Ricardo Reboredo.] Book Chapter, 2021

Pádraig Carmody, Dependence not Debt Trap Diplomacy, Area Development and Policy, 5, (1), 2020, p23-31 Journal Article, 2020 TARA - Full Text

Pádraig Carmody, Meta-trends in Global Value Chains and Development: Interacting Impacts with COVID-19 in Africa, Transnational Corporations: Investment and Development, 27, (2), 2020, p143-155 Journal Article, 2020 TARA - Full Text

Pádraig Carmody, Guest Editorial for Special Issue on 'Decolonization, neocolonialism and recolonization: on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the "Year of Africa"., Vestnik RUDN, International Relations,, (1), 2020, p1 - 3 Journal Article, 2020

Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review, 28, (2019), Stephen McCloskey, [eds.] Journal, 2019 URL

Pádraig Carmody and Christian M. Rogerson, Introduction: Special Issue on New Geographies of South(ern) Africa, African Geographical Review, 2019 Journal Article, 2019

The Impact of China on Urban Africa, in, editor(s)Kristine Bezdecny and Kevin Archer , Handbook of Emerging 21st Century Cities, Edward Elgar, 2018, pp106 - 127, [James T. Murphy, Pádraig Carmody, Richard Grant and Francis Owusu ] Book Chapter, 2018

Matrix Governance and Imperialism in, editor(s)John Agnew and Mat Coleman , Handbook of Geographies of Power, London, Edward Elgar, 2018, [Pádraig Carmody] Book Chapter, 2018

BRICS' Engagement in Security Related Fields in Africa in, editor(s)G. Hainzl and W. Feichtinger , Transforming Violent Conflict in Africa, Vienna, Institute for Conflict Management and Resolution, National Defence Academy, 2017, pp17 - 28, [Pádraig Carmody] Book Chapter, 2017

Pádraig Carmody and James Murphy, Africa's Information 'Revolution': Limitations and Possibilities, African Technopolitan, 2016, p86 - 90 Journal Article, 2016 URL

"Of Cables, Connections and Control: Africa's Double Dependency in the Information Age" in, editor(s)Louis Brennan , Enacting Globalization: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on International Integration, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2014, pp240 - 249, [Bjoern Surborg and Pádraig Carmody] Book Chapter, 2014

Pádraig Carmody, South Africa - the Odd BRIC out. Fletcher Forum on International Affairs., 2013 Invited Talk, 2013 URL

Pádraig Carmody, Old Wine in New Bottles or Africa's Millennium? e-International Relations. , 2013 Invited Talk, 2013 URL

Padraig Carmody, Brics in Africa: Prizes and Pitfalls of Building a New Global Order, 2013, - Miscellaneous, 2013 URL

Pádraig Carmody, Auge e impacto de los BRICS en África, Politica Exterior, XXVII, (154), 2013, p56 - 68 Journal Article, 2013

Pádraig Carmody, Can the US learn from China for a more balanced and peaceful world?, Human Geography, 5, (3), 2012, p64 - 67 Journal Article, 2012

Padraig Carmody, Contradictions and Continuities in UK Aid Policy, 2012 Report, 2012

Padraig Carmody, UK Politics Shapes Africa Aid Patterns, Oxford Analytica, 2012 Report, 2012

Pádraig Carmody, The New Scramble for Africa, World Financial Review, 2012 Journal Article, 2012 URL

Chinese Interests and Strategies in Africa in, editor(s)M. Cintra , The New Configuration of the International Political and Economic System: the Changes Made by China, Brasilia, Institute for Applied Economic Research, 2011, [Pádraig Carmody and Francis Owusu] Book Chapter, 2011

Thintegration and the Mobile Phone Revolution in Africa in, editor(s)William Moseley , Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Africa Issues, Malden, McGraw Hill, 2011, [Pádraig Carmody] Book Chapter, 2011

Pádraig Carmody, The Violence of Governance, Review of Human Encumbrances: Political Violence and the Great Irish Famine, by David Nally , Dialogues in Human Geography, 2011 Review, 2011

India and the "Asian Drivers" in Africa in, editor(s)Emma Mawdsley and Gerard McCann , India in Africa: Changing Geographies of Power, Oxford, Cape Town and Nairobi, Fahamu, 2010, [Pádraig Carmody] Book Chapter, 2010 URL

Aidan Mulkeen, Demis Kunje and Padraig Carmody, Teacher Issues in Malawi, Washington, D.C., Irish Education Trust Fund at the World Bank, 2010 Report, 2010 URL

Neocolonialism in Africa in, editor(s)Alfred Andrea , World History Encylopaedia, Santa Barbara, ABC-CLIO, 2010, [Padraig Carmody] Book Chapter, 2010

Pádraig Carmody, Introduction to issue, Atlas: Journal of the Dublin University Geographical Society, 12, 2010 Journal Article, 2010

Pádraig Carmody and Godfrey Hampwaye, Inclusive or Exclusive Globalisation: Asian Investment and the Zambian Economy, 2009 Working Paper, 2009 URL

Peadar Kirby and Pádraig Carmody, Introduction to special issue on Geographies of the Celtic Tiger, Irish Geograhy, 42, (1), 2009, p1 - 6 Journal Article, 2009

Pádraig Carmody and Ian Taylor, Flexigemony and Force in China's Geoeconomic Strategy in Africa, 2009 Working Paper, 2009 URL

Pádraig Carmody, An Informationalized Economy in Africa: The Impacts of ICT on the Wood Products Sector in Durban, South Africa, 2009 Working Paper, 2009 URL

Pádraig Carmody, A New-Socio Economy in Africa: Thintegration and the Mobile Phone Revolution, 2009 Working Paper, 2009 URL

Padraig Carmody, Africa Does Not Need Resource Colonialism, 2008, - Miscellaneous, 2008 URL

Peadar Kirby and Pádraig Carmody, Moving Beyond the Legacies of the Celtic Tiger, 2008 Working Paper, 2008 URL

Pádraig Carmody, The Geography of Small Nations Journals: Strategies and Scale: Lessons from the Irish Case, Scottish Geographical Journal, 124, (1), 2008, p72 - 77 Journal Article, 2008

The Globalization-AIDS-Poverty Syndrome in Africa in, editor(s)Frank Columbus , Current Issues in the Politics and Economics of Africa, Nova, 2008, [Padraig Carmody and Glen Elder] Book Chapter, 2008

Pádraig Carmody, Continuites and Contradictions in Zimbabwe's Political Economy, Review of Twenty Years of Independence in Zimbabwe: From Liberation to Authoritarianism,, by Staffan Darnolf and Lissa Laakso , H-SAfrica listserv, 2004, p1-8 Review, 2004 URL

Pádraig Carmody, Comment on Geography in Transition in Ireland, Irish Geography, 37, (2), 2004, p137-139 Journal Article, 2004

Pádraig Carmody, Foreword to Irish Social Expenditure in Comparative International Context, 2003, - Miscellaneous, 2003

Pádraig Carmody, Sustaining Progress: A Poverty Assessment, Action on Poverty Today, (2), 2003 Journal Article, 2003

The Liberalization of Underdevelopment or the Criminalization of the State? Contrasting Explanations of Africa's Politico-Economic Crisis under Globalisation in, editor(s)Ikubolojeh Logan , Globalization, the Third World State and Poverty Alleviation in the Twenty-First Century, London, Ashgate,, 2002, [Pádraig Carmody] Book Chapter, 2002

Pádraig Carmody, The Informationalization of Poverty in Africa Working Paper, URL

Pádraig Carmody and Paul S. Ciccantell, The 2024 Presidential Election in the US: Potential Impacts on Global Politics and Economics, EconPol Forum Journal Article, TARA - Full Text

Padraig Carmody, Matrix Governance, Cruciform Sovereignty and the Poverty Regime in Africa Working Paper, URL

Pádraig Carmody, Engaging Exploration of the Cruel Politics Behind Paradox of Oil Wealth, Review of Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil, by Peter Maass , Irish Times Review, URL

Research Expertise

Projects

  • Title
    • "Land Grab: Processes of indigenous community resistance to large extractive projects and their struggles for autonomy in Chile and Peru"
  • Summary
    • The aim of this Fellowship is for the researcher, Dr Rajiv Maher, to develop his professional capacity, advanced training, interdisciplinary skills, high-impact dissemination, and practical experience in line with the criteria for a leading independent researcher in the EU. This proposal aims to investigate the processes of indigenous community resistance to large natural resource extraction projects and their struggles for autonomy in Chile and Peru. The proposal will also examine the strategies used by companies and governments to gain community acceptance such as those relating to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The researcher expects to achieve these aims during the outgoing phase of the Fellowship where he will access expertise, advanced training and mentoring in Development and Political Ecology. Moreover, the researcher will conduct ethnographic research in two indigenous communities in Chile and Peru that are resisting high-impact project in their territory. He will also research the perceptions of communities nearby who have in the past accepted large projects and their CSR. In the return phase the researcher will consolidate the knowledge and experience gained in South America through advanced training and extensive fieldwork in community resistance and struggles for autonomy. Under the guidance of international experts, he will acquire an invaluable skill-set contrasting top-down development policies aimed at indigenous communities who demand a bottom-up solution that calls for more autonomy, this has clear implications for contemporary policy regarding indigenous peoples rights and development. The researcher will be based for two years at the Urban Sustainability Centre (CEDEUS) at the Universidad Católica de Chile, working under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Barton. The third year of the Fellowship will be undertaken at the School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin (TCD) working under the supervision of Dr. Pádraig Carmody.
  • Funding Agency
    • Horizon2020
  • Date From
    • 2016
  • Date To
    • 2020

Keywords

Africa; African Economics; African International Relations; African Politics; Agricultural Economics; Agricultural policy analysis; Anthropogenic Impact on ecosystems; Area & Population Studies/Services; Business Economics, Studies; Chinese Investment in Africa; Comparitive political economy; Conflict/Dispute Resolution; Contemporary social theory; Conversation and discourse analysis; Democracy; Developing/Underdeveloped Nations; Development economics; Development in Africa; Development studies; East (Far East) Asia; Eastern Africa; Ecology and Population; Economic Competitiveness; Economic geography; Economic history, theory; Economic policy making; Economic Stabilization; Economic Studies--Developing Countries; Economic Theory; Economics; Economics of public policy; Economics of Research and Development; Economics of Telecommunications; Economics of the Environment; Environmental planning and sustainable development; Ethiopia; Finance; Foreign direct investment; Gender and work; Genocide; Globalisation; Globalization; History of economic thought; HIV/ AIDS in Africa; Hunger; Imigration policy, Colonial policy, political culture and national identity; Income distribution; Industrial Cooperation; Industrial economics, organisation theory; Industrial Production; Industrial relations; Information technology in education; Information technology, e-commerce; Information technology, Science; Innovation; Innovation and growth; International Affairs; International business; International Economics; International economics, finance, trade and development; International Planning/Policy; International relations theory; International Relations/Diplomacy; International Rights; International Topics; International/Global Development; Internet technologies; Knowledge Based Society; Labor Economics; Labor Market/Unemployment; Labour economics; Macroeconomics; Macroeconomics, open economy, international; Malawi; Microeconomics; Mobile Communications; Non-Aligned/Third World Nations; Political Economics/Economy; Political Economy; Political Geography; Poverty and the Poor; Public Affairs; Regional Economics; Social Movements; Social Organization; Social Stratification/Mobility; Social Structure; Socio economic issues; Socioeconomics; Sociology of development, population society, development; South Africa; Southeast Asia; Southern Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Sustainable Development; Tanzania; Tariff Policy; Terrorism; Trade; Transport economics; Urban and regional economics; Urban economic restructuring, regional planning; Urban Economics; WTO trade negotiations; Zambia; Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)

Recognition

Representations

Editorial Board: African Geographical Review 2009-

Editorial Board, Political Geography 2010

Steering Committee, Development Studies Association of Ireland 2013

Editorial Board, Journal of the Tanzanian Geographical Society 2018

Standing Committee on International Affairs, Royal Irish Academy 2018

Awards and Honours

John F. Kennedy Memorial Fund Fellowship, $5,000 approx. 1992-3

Memberships

Geographical Society of Ireland 2003 – Date

Development Studies Association of Ireland 2013 – Date

Developing Areas Research Group of the Institute of British Geographers 2004 – Date

Society of African Journal Editors 2019 – Date