LSE creators

Number of items: 31.
Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa
  • Mann, Laura, Iazzolino, Gianluca (2021). From development state to corporate leviathan: historicizing the infrastructural performativity of digital platforms within Kenyan agriculture. Development and Change, 52(4), 829-854. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12671 picture_as_pdf
    • International Development
  • Ali, Muez, Mann, Laura (2023). Misaligned social policy? Explaining the origins and limitations of cash transfers in Sudan. Development and Change, 54(4), 841 - 869. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12784 picture_as_pdf
  • Mukiri-Smith, Hellen, Mann, Laura, Azmeh, Shamel (2022). A DC state of mind? A review of the World Development Report 2021: data for better lives. Development and Change, 53(6), 1421 - 1439. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12741 picture_as_pdf
  • Mann, Laura, Iazzolino, Gianluca (2021). From development state to corporate leviathan: historicizing the infrastructural performativity of digital platforms within Kenyan agriculture. Development and Change, 52(4), 829-854. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12671 picture_as_pdf
  • Ouma, Marion, Mann, Laura (15 April 2021) On the ground the reality is different: policymakers in Kenyan agriculture should beware limits to platform knowledge. Africa at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Mann, Laura (1 April 2021) The platformisation of rural Kenya is reshaping the balance of power within agricultural production networks. Africa at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Mann, Laura, Kleibert, Jana Maria (2020). Capturing value amidst constant global restructuring? Information technology enabled services in India, the Philippines and Kenya. European Journal of Development Research, 32(4), 1057-1079. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-020-00256-1 picture_as_pdf
  • Beresford, Alexander, Berry, Marie E., Mann, Laura (2018). Liberation movements and stalled democratic transitions: reproducing power in Rwanda and South Africa through productive liminality. Democratization, 25(7), 1231-1250. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2018.1461209
  • Mann, Laura (2018). Left to other peoples’ devices? A political economy perspective on the big data revolution in development. Development and Change, 49(1), 3 - 36. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12347
  • Graham, Mark, Mann, Laura (2017). Imagining a silicon Savannah? Technological and conceptual connectivity in Kenya's BPO and software development sectors. Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries,
  • Foster, Christopher, Graham, Mark, Mann, Laura, Waema, Timothy, Friederici, Nicolas (2017). Digital control in value chains: challenges of connectivity for East African firms. Economic Geography, 94(1), 68-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2017.1350104
  • Mann, Laura (2017). Youth in Africa: resistance and transformation.
  • Mann, Laura (2017). Jim Murphy and Padraig Carmody, Africa's ICT revolution: technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania. Africa: the Journal of the International African Institute, 87(2), 435-437. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972016001145
  • Meagher, Kate, Mann, Laura, Bolt, Maxim (Eds.) (2016). Globalization, economic inclusion and African workers: making the right connections. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315436494
  • Mann, Laura, Meagher, Kate (2016). The needs of informal workers matter in digital innovation.
  • Mann, Laura (2016). Voices of the next generation.
  • Mann, Laura (2016). Africa’s turn to industrialize?
  • Graham, Mark, Mann, Laura, Friederici, Nicolas, Waema, Timothy (2016). Growing the Kenyan business process outsourcing sector. The African Technopolitan, 5, 93-95.
  • Mann, Laura (2016). At the intersection of digital economy and industrial policy in Africa.
  • Mann, Laura, Graham, Mark (2016). The domestic turn: business processing outsourcing and the growing automation of Kenyan organisations. The Journal of Development Studies, 52(4), 530 - 548. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2015.1126251
  • Mann, Laura (2016). #Technology – Looking back, going forward: LSE Academics reflect on 2015 and look ahead to 2016.
  • Mann, Laura (2016). The data revolution in Africa. The African Technopolitan, 5, 93-95.
  • Graham, Mark, Andersen, Casper, Mann, Laura (2015). Geographical imagination and technological connectivity in East Africa. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 40(3), 334 - 349. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12076
  • Mann, Laura, Berry, Marie (2015). Understanding the political motivations that shape Rwanda’s emergent developmental state. New Political Economy, 21(1), 119-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2015.1041484
  • Graham, Mark, Andersen, Casper, Mann, Laura (2014). Geographies of connectivity in East Africa: trains, telecommunications, and technological teleologies. In Geographies of connectivity in East Africa: trains, telecommunications, and technological teleologies (pp. 334-349). Oxford Internet Institute. picture_as_pdf
  • Mann, Laura (2014). Wasta! The long-term implications of education expansion and economic liberalisation on Politics in Sudan. Review of African Political Economy, 41(142), 561-578. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.952276
  • Mann, Laura (2014). The digital divide and employment. In Society and the Internet: how networks of information and communication are changing our lives . Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199661992.003.0019
  • Mann, Laura (2014). Book Review: business politics and the state in Africa: challenging the orthodoxies on growth and transformation,by Tim Kelsall. African Affairs, 113(452), 467-468. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adu035
  • Mann, Laura (2014). Big data and positive social change in the developing world: A white paper for practitioners and researchers. (Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre conference). Oxford Internet Institute.
  • Mann, Laura, Graham, Mark, Friedrici, Nicolas (2014). The internet and business process outsourcing in East Africa: value chains and networks of connectivity-based enterprises in Kenya and Rwanda. Oxford Internet Institution.
  • Mann, Laura (2013). ‘We do our bit in our own space’: DAL Group and the development of a curiously Sudanese enclave economy. Journal of Modern African Studies, 51(2), 279-303. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X13000207
    • LSE
  • Mann, Laura, Nzayisenga, Elie (2014). Sellers on the street: the human infrastructure of the mobile phone network in Kigali, Rwanda. Critical African Studies, 7(1), 26-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2015.974136